Four Letters of Semicha - Lithuanian Torah Scholars

Four Letters of Semicha - Lithuanian Torah Scholars
R. Moshe Shmuel Shapira (1843-1917), was a prominent rabbi in White Russia. Rabbi of Kurshan and from 1899 Rabbi of Babruysk (succeeding his brother R. Refael Shapira who returned to the Volozhin rabbinate).
R. Shmuel Zalman Landau, Rabbi of Hlusk had a wonderful friendship with R. Baruch Ber Leibovitz who would sent his disciples to discuss Torah topics with R. Landau. [In the book Birkat Shmuel on Tractate Bava Kama, R. Baruch Ber Leibovitz cites R. Landau].
The recipient of the semichot is R. Yitzchak HaLevi Segal (1878-1976), who studied in the Hlusk Yeshiva in the Smarhon "kibbutz" and in Kollel Kovno. In 1906, he arrived in the US and served in the rabbinate of Bayonne and of Jersey City for 70 years and was one of the heads of Agudat ha-Rabbanim. His biography was printed in the book Halichot Yitzchak (NY, 1979) which contains all these letters.
4 letters. Size and condition vary. Good to good-fair condition. All the letters are mounted on fabric for preservation.
Four letters of semicha for the rabbinate, by leading rabbis of Lithuania and of White Russia, given to R. Yitzchak HaLevi Segal. 1902-1905.
· Autograph letter of semicha for the rabbinate signed by R. Chaim Yehuda Leib Sosnitzer Rabbi of Smarhon. Adar Aleph 1902. · Autograph letter of semicha signed by R. "Moshe Danoshevsky" Rabbi of Slabodka. Shevat 1905. · Autograph letter of semicha signed by R. Moshe Shmuel Shapira Rabbi of Babruysk. Adar Bet 1905. · Autograph letter of semicha signed by R. Shmuel Zalman Landau Rabbi of Glusk.
R. Chaim Yehuda Leib Litwin-Sosnitzer, author of Sha'arei De'ah (1840-1903) was born in Babruysk and after his wedding moved to Sosnitsa, from which his cognomen "Sosnitzer Illui" was derived. In 1871, he was appointed Ra'avad and head of the yeshiva in Brody, succeeding R. Shlomo Kluger. In 1886, he returned to Lithuania to serve as rabbi and head of the elder faction of the yeshiva in the city of Smarhon.
R. Moshe Danoshevsky, author of Be'er Moshe (1830-1910), Rabbi of Slabodka near Kaunas (Kovno). One of the heads of Kollel Kovno. He was the rabbi who bestowed semicha and guided the kollel alumni to become poskim.