(Rosh Yeshiva, Methivtah Torah Vodaath, 1892-1945). Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew, written on letterhead to R. Tzvi Hirsch Friedman.
AUCTION 63 |
Thursday, November 13th,
2014 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art
Lot 281
HEIMAN, SHLOMO.
(Rosh Yeshiva, Methivtah Torah Vodaath, 1892-1945). Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew, written on letterhead to R. Tzvi Hirsch Friedman.
Brooklyn, New York: Purim 1939
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
One of the outstanding disciples of R. Baruch Ber Leibowitz, R. Shlomo Heiman originally served as a Maggid Shiur at R. Elchanan Wasserman’s Yeshiva Ohel Torah in Baranovitch before being appointed Rosh Yeshiva of the Ramailes Yeshiva in Vilna. Upon the recommendation in 1935 of R. Chaim Ozer Grodzenski, R. Heiman was selected to be Rosh Yeshiva of Torah Vodaath in Brooklyn. Due to his approach of penetrating analysis to the Talmud, such study was revolutionized in American Yeshivoth. See E. Katzman, Toldoth HaGaon R. Shlomo Heiman in: Yeshurun Vol. VIII, pp. 153-72.
<<Full autograph letters by Rabbi Heiman are scarce>> as the gravity of his illness (that ultimately resulted in his early death) made it very difficult for him to write.