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Lot 127:
"The Bnei Torah are being neglected…" a heartfelt plea from Ha’Gaon Rabbi Reuvain Grozovsky, Elul 1937
A handwritten emotional letter, written on the cusp of the Holocaust, by Rabbi Reuvain Grozovsky Rosh Yeshivas Kamenitz, to his longtime friend Rabbi Leib Gurowitz, one of the Rabbonim in Melbourne, Australia, begging for help for his yeshivah. I am begging you, one of the only people whose heart is open to understanding the terrible shame of the Torah, to help me in my Avodas Ha’kodesh and support the Torah…
Forty handwritten lines, evoke deep emotions when reading the desperate pleas of the Gaon & Tzadik Rabbi Reuvain Grozovsky!
Rabbi Reuvain Grozovsky (1887-1958) was born in Minsk, where his father, Rabbi Shimshon, was one of the Rabbonim in the city. He learned in the Kibbutz in Minsk and then in Slabodka. He was known as an illui and became the son-in-law of the Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz. During the Second World War, Yeshivas Kamenitz fled to Vilna, and Rabbi Reuvain escaped to the USA in 1941 where he invested a lot of effort to save the yeshivah and his students exiled to Siberia. He was appointed Rosh Yeshivah of Torah V’Da’as (after the passing of Ha’Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Heiman) and Rosh Yeshivas Beis Medrash Elyon. He often spoke against the Zionists. In 1951, he was injured in an accident and was left paralyzed. His sefer, Chidushei Reb Reuvain, is well known in the yeshiva world.
1 pg. on official stationery with a double-sided handwritten letter.
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