(“R. Chaim Brisker”). Chidushei Rabbeinu Chaim Ha-Levi [on Maimonides’s Yad Ha-Chazakah.]

The previous owner, R. Ya’akov Kantrowitz (1873-1946), was the uncle of R. Moshe Feinstein. He studied in Volozhin under R. Raphael Shapiro and upon his to America in 1927, was appointed as Rabbi of Trenton, NJ. In 1933, he was invited to act as Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, Brooklyn, to where he commuted three days a week. However he was severely injured in a vehicular accident and had to relinquish his position to R. Shlomo Heiman. His published works include Tzilutha Deshma’atha, Chidushei Hagr”i and Hegyonoth Hagr”i. R. Moshe Feinstein states in his approbation to Chidushei Hagr”i that his uncle knew the entire Talmud by heart. The signatory, his son, was also a great scholar and one of the first disciples of R. Aaron Kotler in Kletzk.