Auction 74 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Letter from Rabbi Yehuda Leib Chasman – Stutchin, 1925
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Lengthy letter (2 pages) handwritten by R. Yehuda Leib Chasman, with his signature: "Y.H.L.". Stutchin (Shchuchyn), 1925.
Addressed to his confidant R. Yosef Shub, director of the Vaad HaYeshivot office in Vilna. The letter contains various directives concerning Vaad HaYeshivot matters, which were under the jurisdiction of R. Yehuda Leib Chasman, and regarding the Orthodox newspaper Vort, published in Vilna by R. Yosef Shub. R. Leib suggests to set up three different funds, one for boys' schools, one for Beit Yaakov, and one for the Vaad HaYeshivot. He suggests that in this way, the communal workers "won't shove their colleagues aside, since now everyone wants to bring the entire Torah under his wings, and for their great love, they will get crushed in their zealousness; while if there were three special funds, the Jewish people when solicited would donate to each of them. Let's hope that men of insight will be found, to arrange these great matters".
R. Yehuda Leib Chasman (1869-1935), a leading Torah scholar of his times, was the study partner and friend of R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinski in their native city of Iwye. A student of the Kelm Beit HaTalmud, he served as mashgiach of the Telshe yeshiva (Telšiai) during the time of R. Shimon Shkop. From 1909, he served as rabbi of Shchuchyn, and established there a Yeshiva Gedola which was closed at the outbreak of World War I. After the war, with the ensuing destruction of Torah institutes and communities, he dedicated himself to the activities of the Vaad HaYeshivot in Vilna. He was a confidant of the heads of the Vaad: R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, the Chafetz Chaim and R. Shimon Shkop. In 1927, the Alter of Slabodka (who dubbed him "the genius in ethics") called him to succeed him as mashgiach of his yeshiva in Hebron, a position he held until his death in Cheshvan 1935. His Torah novellae were published in his book Minchat Yehuda and his discourses were printed by his leading disciples in the three volumes of Or Yahel.
[1] leaf (written on both sides, approx. 40 lines). Approx. 17 cm. Good condition.
Addressed to his confidant R. Yosef Shub, director of the Vaad HaYeshivot office in Vilna. The letter contains various directives concerning Vaad HaYeshivot matters, which were under the jurisdiction of R. Yehuda Leib Chasman, and regarding the Orthodox newspaper Vort, published in Vilna by R. Yosef Shub. R. Leib suggests to set up three different funds, one for boys' schools, one for Beit Yaakov, and one for the Vaad HaYeshivot. He suggests that in this way, the communal workers "won't shove their colleagues aside, since now everyone wants to bring the entire Torah under his wings, and for their great love, they will get crushed in their zealousness; while if there were three special funds, the Jewish people when solicited would donate to each of them. Let's hope that men of insight will be found, to arrange these great matters".
R. Yehuda Leib Chasman (1869-1935), a leading Torah scholar of his times, was the study partner and friend of R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinski in their native city of Iwye. A student of the Kelm Beit HaTalmud, he served as mashgiach of the Telshe yeshiva (Telšiai) during the time of R. Shimon Shkop. From 1909, he served as rabbi of Shchuchyn, and established there a Yeshiva Gedola which was closed at the outbreak of World War I. After the war, with the ensuing destruction of Torah institutes and communities, he dedicated himself to the activities of the Vaad HaYeshivot in Vilna. He was a confidant of the heads of the Vaad: R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, the Chafetz Chaim and R. Shimon Shkop. In 1927, the Alter of Slabodka (who dubbed him "the genius in ethics") called him to succeed him as mashgiach of his yeshiva in Hebron, a position he held until his death in Cheshvan 1935. His Torah novellae were published in his book Minchat Yehuda and his discourses were printed by his leading disciples in the three volumes of Or Yahel.
[1] leaf (written on both sides, approx. 40 lines). Approx. 17 cm. Good condition.
Rabbinical Letters
Rabbinical Letters