Letter of gratitude & blessings signed in his hand, his personal stamp & the stamp of his famous Yeshiva in Grodno.
Grodno 1933, on official stationary.
"הנותן לו ברכתו שלום של ברכה המשלשת"
The great Gaon author of Sha’arei Yosher Rabbi Shimon Yehuda Hacohen Shkop (1860-1939) one of the greatest Rosh Yeshivas in Lithuania and leaders of the generation. After two years of studying at the Mir Yeshiva (from age 12) he joined a selected group which studied Torah with the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk at the Volozhin Yeshiva. He married the niece of Rabbi Eliezer Gordon of Telz, who was impressed by his spiritual greatness and invited him to serve as a Ram at the Telz Yeshiva for eighteen years. In 1920, he was called by the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodsinsky to serve as the Rosh Yeshiva of the Sha’ar HaTorah Yeshiva in Grodno. He held this position until his passing.
In 1928 he published the first part of his great book “Shaarei Yosher”, characterized by his depth of knowledge. Over the years more sections were printed (a work miraculously saved by his students in the USSR) and it was widely accepted aa a classic Sefer in the yeshiva world wordwide.
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