(Rosh Yeshiva, Methivtah Torah Voda’ath, 1892-1945). Autograph Letter Signed, written in Hebrew on letterhead to R. Moshe Dov Ber Rivkin.

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. 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 made it very difficult for him to write. Rabbi Moshe Dov Ber Rivkin (1891-1977) was one of the most prominent Chabad Chassidim of the last generation. He studied in Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim in the town of Lubavitch under the supervision of the Rebbe Rasha”b, Sholom Dov Ber Schneerson. In 1916 was invited by the Frierdiker Rebbe, R. Yoseph Yitzchak Schneerson to be his study partner and was warmly treated as a close friend of the Schneerson family. He was appointed and served as Rosh Yeshivath Torath Emeth in Jerusalem, but in 1928 accepted the post of Dean in Mesivta Torah Vodaath, New York, where he remained for over fifty years.