Manuscript – Copy of Novellae of Rabbi Chaim Simcha HaLevi Soloveitchik (Brother of the Beit HaLevi) – With a Copy ...

Manuscript – Copy of Novellae of Rabbi Chaim Simcha HaLevi Soloveitchik (Brother of the Beit HaLevi) – With a Copy of Lectures Delivered at Telz Yeshiva – 1920s-1930
Handwritten notebook, copy of novellae and glosses of Rabbi Chaim Simcha HaLevi Soloveitchik – with a copy of lectures delivered by Maharil Bloch and Rabbi Chaim of Telz during the 1920s. [Telz, 1920s-1930s].
the notebook was written by Rabbi Yosef Dov HaLevi Holzberg, a descendent of Rabbi Chaim Simcha Soloveitchik, who studied in the Telz Yeshiva during the 1920s-1930s. the lectures are from 1924-1927. Some are titled "From the Moharil Shlita (in his lifetime) and some "Moharil Zatzal (after his death)" [Rabbi Yosef Leib Bloch, head of the Telz Yeshiva died in Cheshvan in 1929]. Some are titled "By the Garach Shlita" and some "By the Garach Zatzal" [Rabbi Chaim Rabinowitz of Telz died in Cheshvan in 1930]. Evidently the notebook was partly written during the lifetime of the heads of the yeshiva and partly after their death.
the novellae and glosses are according to the order of the Talmud tractates, and apparently were written by a copier and not by the author. In Tractate Ketubot a gloss on the Beit HaLevi responsa was copied [written originally as an addition to Volume 2, Siman 50] and in parenthesis at the end of the gloss, this remark is added: "And written on this: Heard from my brother on Shabbat Parshat Chukat during Se'uda Shlishit when the great Rabbi Av Beit Din of Stolbtsy was in Volozhin in 1858". Apparently, these novellae were copied by Rabbi Yosef Dov HaLevi Holzberg, from the leaves of the Talmud and other books belonging to his father, Rabbi Chaim Simcha HaLevi Soloveitchik.
Rabbi Chaim Simcha HaLevi Soloveitchik (c. 1830-1921), the younger brother of the author of Beit HaLevi, grandson of the daughter of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin, was an exceptional Torah scholar and wise sage, one of the foremost rabbis of the Kovno community. From his youth, he was recognized as a great genius among the disciples of the Maharil Diskin and was a friend of his son Rabbi Yitzchak Yerucham Diskin. this connection of Rabbi and disciple persevered for many years and Rabbi Soloveitchik assisted the Maharil for many years. When the Maharil Diskin travelled to Paris on his way to Eretz Israel, his beloved disciple Rabbi Chaim Simcha accompanied him to take care of all his teacher’s arrangements. (See Item 320).
the writer of the notebook is Rabbi Yosef Dov Holzberg, born in 1910 (died c. 2000) who studied at the Telz Yeshiva in his youth. He was a Torah scholar, close to Rabbi Yitzchak Ze’ev of Brisk and to Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis and he exchanged Torah correspondence with Rabbi Elazar Menachem Shach. He taught in the Beit Ya’akov Seminary in Jerusalem.
Notebook, 21 cm. Novellae and glosses: 35 written pages; Telz Yeshiva lectures: 99 written pages. Good condition, stains and wear, detached leaves.
Enclosed: a group photograph (non-original) of Telz Yeshiva students in 1932.