(Rosh Yeshiva of Ponovezh, 1899-2001). Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew, written on letterhead to R. Yisrael Eliyahu Weintraub.

SHACH, ELAZAR MENACHEM MAN.

19th Iyar

Bnei Braq

1970

Approbation for R. Weintraub’s work entitled Mikveh Yisrael.

Rav Shach was the pre-eminent leader of Lithuanian Jewry in the post-War period. His dominating personality had a profound effect on the religious, social and political outlook of Aschkenazic Torah Jewry, especially in Israel. Includes extensive honorific titles that Rav Shach extends to Rabbi Weintraub who ultimately, from a sense of personal humility, decided not to include in the published version of this work.