Manuscript, Torah novellae by Rabbi Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz and shi'urim and sayings of leading Lithuanian yeshiva heads. Words of mussar and discourses in the handwriting of "Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz of Volozhin". Vilna, Jerusalem, 1935.
Discourses and Torah lessons heard from Lithuanian rabbis: Rabbi Chaim of Brisk, Rabbi Naftali Trop, Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz, Rabbi Chaim of Telz, Rabbi Shimon Shkop of Grodno, Rabbi Yitzchak Ya'akov of Ponovezh, the Gaon of Turik, Rabbi Mordechai Mirois of Radin, Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Rabbi Baruch Horwitz of Aleksotas, Rabbi Aharon Cohen, Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Sender Kahane Shapira, and others. Orderly indexes of the notebook's contents.
On the binding is a title page in his handwriting: "Torah novellae on various topics - belongs to Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz of Volozhin, living now in Jerusalem and studying at the Knesset Yisrael Yeshiva (Slabodka) the Hebron Yeshiva 1935, Adar Aleph. I have come to our Holy Land on the first of month of Shevat and to the yeshiva on the 11th of Shevat".
Rabbi Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz (1913-2011) was born in Volozhin and studied in the Remeiles Yeshiva in Vilna of Rabbi Shlomo Heiman, ascended to Eretz Israel in 1935 and studied at the Hebron Yeshiva in Jerusalem. After his marriage, he began serving as Rosh Metivta at the Tiferet Zion Yeshiva and became close to the Chazon Ish. After a while, he was appointed head of the Ponovezh Yeshiva for younger boys. He taught Torah to students for almost 70 years and was known as one of the leading yeshiva heads in our times. A Torah scholar, highly admired in Torah circles. Many came to him for his counsel, prayers and blessing which were given from the depth of his heart.
Approximately 193 closely written pages, approximately 38/39 lines to a page, 20.5 cm. Good-fair condition, much wear and detached leaves.
Some of the things in this notebook were never printed.