The Gaon Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz - a photograph

The Gaon Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz - a photograph

A photograph of Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz holding a Gemara in his hand and looking at the camera.

It is known that Rabbi Baruch Ber objected to being photographed. About the photograph before us, Rabbi Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi told on behalf of Rabbi Ze'ev Wilensky: When Rabbi Baruch noticed the photographer approaching him, he hinted that he was not interested in being photographed. The photographer begged Rabbi Baruch Ber and told him that the photography profession his livelihood. Rabbi Baruch Ber told him, "so wait a few moments". He took off his hat, which was not exactly neat, arranged it directly, took the gemara he was dealing with, and got up to be photographed.

Rabbi Eliezer Friedlis told that when he once accompanied Rabbi Yechezkel Sarna, head of the Hebron Yeshiva, and a photographer came their way, Rabbi Yechezkel stood and arranged his clothes properly so that the photo would come out better, and told him that He saw this leadership in Rabbi Baruch Ber. (See: 'The rabbi who resembles an angel' - about Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz, Jerusalem 2005. pp. 323-324).

The Gaon Rabbi Baruch Dov Ber Leibowitz [1870-1939], one of the leaders of European Jewry before the outbreak of the Holocaust, Rosh Yeshiva of the Knesset Beit Yitzhak - Chemnitz, author of "Birkat Shmuel" and one of the leaders of the way of learning in the yeshivot world.

Provenance: The photograph came from a family of descendants of Rabbi Baruch Ber.

Size: 24x18 cm. Peeling, cracks and spots. Wood and glass frame 23x31 cm. The photo was not examined outside the frame.