Semicha from HaGaon HaKadosh Baal Binas Yissachor of Sengeorge – Granted to the Renowned Gaon Rav Shlomo Baruch Prager, Hy”d, Av Beis Din of Petrowasella
A
semicha document of Ha
Gaon Reb Yisoschor Ber Kohn, zt”l, Av Beis Din of
Sengeorge, author of
Binas Yisoschor. Issued on
Thursday, Parshas Chayei Sarah, 5675 (1914), for the
renowned Gaon, Rav Shlomo Baruch Prager, zt”l Hy”d, Av Beis Din of
Petrowasella.
The
semicha is written with
great warmth and admiration, extolling his
tremendous Torah knowledge, halachic expertise, and exceptional yiras Shamayim, which preceded his wisdom.
The HaGaon Rav Yisoschor Ber Kohn, zt”l, Av Beis Din of Sengeorge, A cherished talmid of Ha Gaon Rav Yirmiya Löw, zt”l, Av Beis Din of Uhel, Ha Gaon Rav Menachem Ash, zt”l, Av Beis Din of Ungvar, and others. Beloved by the tzaddikim of his generation, he lived over 90 years, among the gedolei and ziknei rabbanim of his time. Known as a holy man and baal mofes, multitudes flocked to him for brachos and yeshuos.
HaGaon HaTzaddik Rav Shlomo Baruch Prager, zt”l Hy”d, Av Beis Din of Petrowasella, Son Ha Gaon HaTzaddik Rav Yaakov Prager, zt”l, Av Beis Din of Ada, and son-in-law of Maran Maharam Shik, zt”l. A cherished talmid of the Rav Yehuda Greenwald, zt”l, Av Beis Din of Satmar, author of Shevet MiYehuda, whose rebbi famously declared that in the merit of this talmid, he would enter Gan Eden.
He was also the son-in-law of Rav Yehuda Lichtenstein, zt”l, Av Beis Din of Betlen, brother of Rav Hillel of Kolomyia, zt”l. Rav Prager was murdered al kiddush Hashem in the Holocaust (5704/1944), leaving behind a legacy of Torah and yiras Shamayim.
