Letter by Rabbi Baruch Dov Leibowitz, head of the Kamenitz Yeshiva, to Rabbi Yisrael Porat, a rabbi in Cleveland. Kamenitz, [1930s].
Typewritten letter, with a request for the Knesset Beit Yitzchak Yeshiva in Kamenitz. At the end of the letter, the head of the yeshiva adds two and one half lines in his handwriting and with his signature: "Who blesses you with a Ketiva V'Chatima Tova Baruch Dov Leibowitz. G-d should write you and sign you immediately for a good sweet happy blessed life with all the blessings for a year of redemption and salvation, Amen"
Rabbi Baruch Dov (Ber) Leibowitz (1864-1940), one of the leading disciples of Rabbi Chaim of Brisk in the Volozhin Yeshiva, succeeded his father in law, Rabbi Zimmerman in the Halusk rabbinate and established a yeshiva there. After 13 years, he was asked to serve as head of the Knesset Beit Yitzchak Yeshiva in Slobodka which eventually moved to Vilna and Kamenitz. He was one of the leading Torah teachers of his generation. He wrote Birkat Shmuel on Talmudical treatises - his Torah teachings are one of the basic cornerstones of in-depth Torah study.
Official stationery (with the picture of Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spector, after whom the yeshiva is named). 29 cm. Fair condition, wear and tear to margins and to folds.