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Lengthy letter for saving the famed Talmud Torah of Shomrei Hachomos, signed by two Gedolei...

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Lengthy letter for saving the famed Talmud Torah of Shomrei Hachomos, signed by two Gedolei Yisroel of Jerusalem, the great Gaon Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis and the Gaon Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel. Jerusalem, 1943.

In the lengthy letter, which written on the official stationery of ‘The temporary commission for saving the Shomrei Hachomos Talmud Torah and Yeshiva of Jerusalem’, the two great Geonim, Rosh Av Beis Din of HaEdah HaChareidis and the Rosh Yeshiva of Mir, write that they had just arrived in Jerusalem and request that the management of the Bnei Zion institution, an additional famed Talmud Torah of Jerusalem managed by Rabbi Moshe Porush and Rabbi Nosson Salem to save Shomrei Hachomos. They also write that they are appealing to all institutions of Jerusalem to pitch in to save Shomrei Hachomos.

The letter is typewritten and on it appear two stamps of the Gaon Rabbi Bengis, one is a signature-like stamp, and the second, a rare stamp. The Gaon Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, the Rosh Yeshiva of Mir, aded his handwritten signature to the letter and a rare stamp from his early years in Jerusalem ‘Eliezer Yehuda Finkel Rosh Yeshiva DeNir – now in Jerusalem’, before the Mir Yeshiva was reestablished in Jerusalem.

The great Gaon Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis (1864-1953) Rosh Av Beis Din of HaEidah HaChareidis in Jerusalem and one of Gedolei Hador. Was born in Šnipiškės to his father Rabbi Zvi Hirsch. When he was approx. seventeen, he began studying at the Volozhin Yeshiva where he became close to his Rav the Natziv, who even called him ‘a living Shas’. The Gaon Rabbi Bengis received his Semicha by the greatest of his generation: his Rav the Natziv, the Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Elchonon Spektor and the Gaon Rabbi Chaim of Brisk. Served as Rav in several holy communities until in 1938, he was called to serve as Rosh Av Beis Din of HaEdah HaChareidis in Jerusalem and immigrated to the Holy Land. In Jerusalem, he mightily led the community (although he had no tendency to zealousness). After his passing, he was succeeded by the Gaon Rabbi Yosef Zvi Dushinsky. His disciples included Maran the Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and the Gaon Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv.

The great Gaon Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel [1877-1965] Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir Yeshiva and founder of the New Yeshiva after the Holocaust, was one of the great scholars of the generation and member of Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Agudas Yisroel. Son of the the Saba of Slabodka and a disciple of the Gaon Rabbi Eliezer Gordon of Telz, the Ridbaz, the Great Gaon Rabbi Chaim of Brisk, rabbi Baruch Ber and the Chofetz Chaim.

[1] stationery typewritten and signed. Filing perforations. Fold marks. Very good condition.

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Measurement: 22 x 28 CM

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