(Rosh Yeshiva, Methivtah Torah Vodaath, 1892-1945). Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew, written on letterhead to R. Tzvi Hirsch Friedman.

HEIMAN, SHLOMO.

Purim

Brooklyn, New York

1939

Acknowledging receipt of Friedman’s book Tzvi Chemed, stating that after a preliminary perusal he has already derived great pleasure from its contents.

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.