TIKTINSKY, CHAIM YEHUDA LEIB.

Rosh Chodesh Shevat

Mir

1877

(Rosh Yeshivath Mir, 1824-99). Letter Signed, in Hebrew, with stamp, written to Tzvi Hirsch Dainow (Maggid of Slutzk and later in London, author of Kevod Melech, 1832-77). Plus signature of his son R. Samuel Tiktinsky (d. 1883), and additional five autograph lines signed again by R. Samuel,

Otzar HaRabanim 6454; Rabbotheinu SheBagolah pp. 106-9.

Rabbi Chaim Leib Tiktinsky was one of the foremost scholars in Lithuania. He was the youngest son of Rabbi Shmuel Tiktinsky, the founder of the Mirrer Yeshivah and served as dean for nearly fifty years (1850-99). In 1876 he appointed in turn his son, Samuel, to assist and after R. Samuel died young in 1883, his younger brother R. Abraham was appointed. Letters containing the signature of both R. Chaim Leib and R. Samuel are rare as R. Samuel served in the yeshiva for only a short while.