RABBI MEIR SHAPIRA (1887-1933), leading rabbinical authority, Rosh Yeshiva,...
RABBI MEIR SHAPIRA (1887-1933), leading rabbinical authority, Rosh Yeshiva, Agudas Yisroel spokesman and parliamentarian in pre-WWII Poland - controversial letter addressed to DR LEO (SHMUEL) DEUTSCHLANDER (1889-1935), prominent orthodox Jewish educationalist and leader of the Beth Jacob network of girls schools.
A short letter related to a controversial matter: ‘It seems that the Rabbi of Kalish has already realised that he erred in his imagination and he seeks a way of retracting – time will tell’. The letter is written at the resort town Marienbad during the month of Menachem Av 5688 [Summer 1928].
Rabbi Meir Shapira, one of the greatest and most active rabbinical figures of his time, was born in Shotz (Suceava), Romania. A descendant of the famous Rabbi Pinchas Shapira of Koritz, and a follower of the Rebbe of Chortkov, he was known as an infant prodigy and referred to as ‘The Shotzer illuy’, receiving rabbinical ordination at the age of 15. Served as Rabbi of Glina, Sanok, Piotrkov and Lublin, where after a 7-year-long international fundraising campaign (in the course of which he travelled across Western Europe and the US) he established the internationally famous Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin as a centre for advanced Talmudic studies. He served as President of Agudas Yisroel in Poland, Honorary Secretary of the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah, as well as Agudas Yisroel deputy in the Polish Parliament from 1923 to 1928. At the Knessia Gedola of Agudas Yisroel in Vienna 1924 he launched the innovative Daf Hayomi universal daily Talmud study program that has been widely adopted in the orthodox Jewish world.
Dr Leo (Shmuel) Deutschlander was a prominent orthodox Jewish educationalist, co-founder of the Yavneh orthodox Jewish school network in Lithuania, founder of Agudas Yisroel youth groups in Germany, Director of Keren Hatorah, leader of the Beth Jacob network of girls’ schools and lecturer at its teachers training courses that he established in Poland.
[1] Official stationery, 22x28 cm. Good condition. Holes due to filling and binding.
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RABBI MEIR SHAPIRA (1887-1933), leading rabbinical authority, Rosh Yeshiva, Agudas Yisroel spokesman and parliamentarian in pre-WWII Poland - controversial letter addressed to DR LEO (SHMUEL) DEUTSCHLANDER (1889-1935), prominent orthodox Jewish educationalist and leader of the Beth Jacob network of girls schools.
A short letter related to a controversial matter: ‘It seems that the Rabbi of Kalish has already realised that he erred in his imagination and he seeks a way of retracting – time will tell’. The letter is written at the resort town Marienbad during the month of Menachem Av 5688 [Summer 1928].
Rabbi Meir Shapira, one of the greatest and most active rabbinical figures of his time, was born in Shotz (Suceava), Romania. A descendant of the famous Rabbi Pinchas Shapira of Koritz, and a follower of the Rebbe of Chortkov, he was known as an infant prodigy and referred to as ‘The Shotzer illuy’, receiving rabbinical ordination at the age of 15. Served as Rabbi of Glina, Sanok, Piotrkov and Lublin, where after a 7-year-long international fundraising campaign (in the course of which he travelled across Western Europe and the US) he established the internationally famous Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin as a centre for advanced Talmudic studies. He served as President of Agudas Yisroel in Poland, Honorary Secretary of the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah, as well as Agudas Yisroel deputy in the Polish Parliament from 1923 to 1928. At the Knessia Gedola of Agudas Yisroel in Vienna 1924 he launched the innovative Daf Hayomi universal daily Talmud study program that has been widely adopted in the orthodox Jewish world.
Dr Leo (Shmuel) Deutschlander was a prominent orthodox Jewish educationalist, co-founder of the Yavneh orthodox Jewish school network in Lithuania, founder of Agudas Yisroel youth groups in Germany, Director of Keren Hatorah, leader of the Beth Jacob network of girls’ schools and lecturer at its teachers training courses that he established in Poland.
[1] Official stationery, 22x28 cm. Good condition. Holes due to filling and binding.
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