R. Eliezer Yitzchok Fried. Rosh Yeshivas Volozhin. Extremely Rare.

Long autograph letter by R. Eliezer Yitzchok Fried to R. Mordechai of Tshechnovitz, in which he mentions R. Yaakov Meir Padwa, Rav of Brisk.
R. Eliezer Yitzchak Fried (1809-1853), was a scion of the founding family of the Volozhin Yeshiva. He was a maternal grandson of the founder, R. Chaim of Volozhin and the son-in-law of his uncle R. Itzele of Volozhin. His father R. Hillel of Grodno, served as the assistant head of the Volozhin Yeshiva for ten years before he moved to serve in the Grodno Rabbinate. In the lifetime of his father-in-law R. Itzele of Volozhin, R. Eliezer Yitzchok was appointed assistant head of the yeshiva. Upon the passing of R. Itzele, he was appointed Rosh Yeshiva, but only served for a short time until his untimely passing, following which his younger brother-in-law the Netziv succeeded him as Rosh Yeshiva. From a young age R. Eliezer Yitzchok was known as an outstanding Gaon. In the introduction to the work Chut Ha’Meshulash (Volozhin), his son writes of his father R. Eliezer Yitzchok that “Torah scholars of the time discussed various questions with him while he was yet a youth, and that “he diligently reviewed the entire Talmud every month”. Most of his Torah novella were never printed as his son writes, “About fourteen years before his death, he became very ill but in spite of his precarious state of health and extreme frailty, driven by his great love and thirst for Torah he devoted himself to its constant study and with tremendous efforts, pushed himself to deliver a shiur in the Yeshiva twice a week. However due to his extreme weakness, he did not have the strength to record everything in writing and many of his novella remained orally with his students. Even the novella he did write, were not arranged properly for printing and some remained incomplete”.
24 by 18 cm. Fine condition. Bottom right corner lacking not effecting text.
Letters by R. Eliezer Yitzchok are extremely rare.
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