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LOT 40:
Two Books With Dedication, Signature and Stamp of Rabbi Elchanan Bunim Wasserman from Baranovich, Student of the ...
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Two Books With Dedication, Signature and Stamp of Rabbi Elchanan Bunim Wasserman from Baranovich, Student of the Chafetz Chaim.
Signature and Stamp.
From the Ohel Torah collection.
Printed in Baranovich, 1923. A. Y. Shviranski Printers.
This is the first of three booklets to be printed in Baranovich by Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman hy”d.
49 Pages. Size: 22cm.
Computerized Jewish Book Otzar: Item no. 20302.
These two books are bound together, in a beautiful binding.
The inner binding contains a dedication inscribed in Rabbi Wasserman’s handwriting.
It reads: “To my dear, pleasant and intelligent friend, seeker of G’d. From one who cherishes
you…Elchanan Bunim Wasserman.”
Rabbi Wasserman was born in 1877 in Birz. He learned in Slabodka, and was a student of the Torah giants, Rabbi Chaim Soloveichik and Rabbi Shimon Shkop of Grodna. He was a very close pupil of the Chafetz Chaim.
Rabbi Wasserman learned and taught in Brisk and Radin
and was Rosh Yeshiva of Kol Torah. Died Al Kiddush Hashem 1941.
