Letter by Rabbi Shlomo Sender Cahane Shapira to Dr. Avraham Eliyahu Harkabi. Malsch, 1901. His handwriting and signature, with his stamp and the yeshiva stamp.
An application to Dr. Harkabi known for his connections and influence to help strengthen the yeshiva that Rabbi Cahane established in Malsch.
Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Sender Cahane Shapira (1851-1923), one of the most phenomenal Torah geniuses of Lithuania. Great-grandson of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin, disciple of the Netziv and of the author of Beit HaLevi. Lithuanian Torah leaders and heads of yeshivas held him in unusually high esteem. In 1885, he was chosen as Rabbi of Malsch where he established his yeshiva Anaf Etz Chaim [named for the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Volozhin which closed at that time], which became one of the most important yeshiva in Lithuania. In 1903, he moved to serve as Rabbi of Krinek and moved his yeshiva there. His son is Rabbi Avraham Dober Shapira, author of Dvar Avraham Rabbi of Kovne. In 1921, he moved to Eretz Yisrael, settled in Jerusalem and died after a short while. From his novellae, the two volumes of Chidushei HaGarzas were printed (Machon Yerushalayim, 1993).
28 cm. Good condition, stains and folding marks.