Historic Discovery R.Baruch Ber Leibowitz. Letter Regarding the Publishing of the Birchas Shmuel! Kaminetz 1939.

Historic Discovery R.Baruch Ber Leibowitz. Letter Regarding the Publishing of the Birchas Shmuel! Kaminetz 1939.
Rare historic autograph letter by R. Baruch Ber Leibowitz to his son in law R. Yitzchok Turitz. After inquiring about his grandchildren, R. Baruch Ber writes that he has already prepared for print close to forty pages of his upcoming work on Masechtos Bova Kamma, Yevamos and Kidushin, and that he hopes to complete it with a total of sixty pages. He then contemplates waiting to publish his work until he completes the preparation of his writings on all the Masechtos so that it should be a “dovor sholeim”. In 1939 (shortly after the beginning of the war) the first volume was printed in Vilna on these three Masechtos consisting of 60 pages. In their introduction to the sefer, the author’s sons tell of their father’s death on the 5th of Kislev (November) 1939. They relate that in 1939, the printing began in the lifetime of the author, in Bilgoraj and it was continued in Vilna using the proofs made in Bilgoraj. This rare letter, seemingly was written between the Bilgoraj proofs and Vilna printing.
R. Boruch Ber also mentions in this letter a possible Shidduch for his granddaughter, and curiously, he notes that the young man in question already has an established livelihood.
R. Baruch Ber Leibowitz (1864-1940), was one of the most prominent students of R. Chaim Brisker and was a leading Rosh yeshiva in Lithuania in the era immediately preceding the Holocaust. His yeshiva in Kaminetz became a great center of Torah with students coming from all over the world to hear his Shiurim. His classic work Birchas Shmuel is considered a fundamental work in many Yeshivos worldwide.
22 by 28 cm. Very fine condition. Slight wear on the margins.
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