Letter of Good Year Wishes from Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz - Kamenitz, Elul 1937

Letter from R. Baruch Ber Leibowitz, dean of the Knesset Beit Yitzchak yeshiva in Kamenitz (Kamyenyets). [Kamenitz], Elul 1937. Lengthy letter (in Yiddish) from the Kamenitz yeshiva, with blessings for a good year, addressed to a family of philanthropists in Philadelphia, United States. The letter, mostly typewritten, concludes with 6 lines handwritten and signed by R. Baruch Ber Leibowitz, the yeshiva dean, with warm and hearty blessings in Yiddish and Hebrew: "I second the blessings… may you be written and sealed in the book of absolute pious men, immediately for a good and advanced life, for a good and blessed year, with all the blessings, success and satisfaction, wealth and happiness, a year in which our Messiah will come. The words of one who blesses him with a good inscribing and sealing… Baruch Dov Leibovitz dean of the Beit Yitzchak yeshiva". R. Baruch Dov (Ber) Leibowitz (1864-1940), author of Birkat Shmuel, taught many disciples. Disciple of R. Chaim of Brisk in the Volozhin Yeshiva, son-in-law of R. Avraham Yitzchak Zimmerman Rabbi of Hlusk. After his father-in-law relocated to the Kremenchuk rabbinate, he succeeded him in the Hlusk rabbinate and established a yeshiva. After a 13-year tenure, he was asked to head the Knesset Beit Yitzchak Yeshiva in Slobodka. During WWI, he wandered with the yeshiva to Minsk, Kremenchuk and Vilna, finally settling in Kamenets. Author of Birkat Shmuel on Talmudic treatises. His writings are basic works of deep yeshiva Torah study. 2 leaves, official stationery. Good condition.