(Rosh Yeshiva, Methivtah Torah Voda’ath, 1892-1945). Autograph Letter Signed, written in Hebrew to the Vaad HaYeshivos.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,300

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author

HEIMAN, SHLOMO.

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Tammuz

Place

Vilna

Publication

1931

Description

Letter of recommendation requesting financial assistance on behalf of an outstanding student named Moshe Wilkinson. Signed by Rabbi Heiman as the Ra”m of the Ramailes Yeshiva in Vilna. In addition, there is a note from Rabbi Meir Basson who writes: “He is an exceedingly outstanding student and it a great mitzvah to assist him with whatever is possible.”

summary

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.

One page. punch-holes. 8vo.

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