"Much joy, satisfaction, good health, and great wealth" – A special letter of blessing from the Gaon Rabbi Baruch Dov Leibowitz, Rosh Yeshiva of Kamenitz.
The second page of a letter of thanks and blessing from the Gaon Rabbi Baruch Ber zt"l.
With warm and abundant blessings
, "Much joy, satisfaction, good health, and great wealth. May you always have and always be able to give and support the holy strongholds of Torah, the holy yeshivas, which are the protective shield of our people and the secret of our existence."
A typewritten letter, with his holy handwritten signature and seal.
Kamenitz, [1930..]
The holy Gaon Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz (1864-1940), author of "Birkat Shmuel, " was one of the greatest Torah educators of his generation. He was a disciple of the Gaon Rabbi Chaim of Brisk at the Volozhin Yeshiva. He was the son-in-law of the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Zimmerman, Av Beit Din of Halusk and Kremenchug. After his father-in-law moved to Kremenchug, Rabbi Baruch Ber succeeded him in the rabbinate of Halusk and established a yeshiva there. After 13 years, he was invited to serve as the Rosh Yeshiva of "Knesset Beit Yitzchak" in Slabodka. During World War I, he wandered with his yeshiva to Minsk, Kremenchug, and Vilna, until he finally established it in Kamenitz. His work "Birkat Shmuel" on Talmudic topics is a foundational text for the study method practiced in Lithuanian yeshivas.
