Auction 5 Judaica
By Legacy Judaica
Apr 4, 2019
Freehold Jewish center 59 Broad street, Freehold NJ. 07728, United States
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LOT 211:

R. Shloime Heiman/ “And Not Shevet Levi Alone”- Handwritten Transcript of the Famous RaMBaM kept in his Tallis Bag. ...

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R. Shloime Heiman/ “And Not Shevet Levi Alone”- Handwritten Transcript of the Famous RaMBaM kept in his Tallis Bag. Historic Discovery!
Handwritten transcript (unsigned) of the famous RaMBaM in Hilchos Shmitta V’Yovel (Perek 13, Halacha 12-13), where the RaMBaM expounds on the primacy of Torah study.
The day R. Shloime Heiman was niftar in 1945, the wife of one of his closest talmidim, R. Moshe Shisgal, (who was the son-in-law of R. Moshe Feinstein), gave birth to a child. R. Shisgal was therefore unable to be “menachem avel” the Rebbetzin. Soon thereafter R. Shisgal discovered, that being that since R. Shloime was childless, his Rebbetzin had distributed his writings to his talmidim during the Shiva. R. Shisgal approached the Rebbetzin to see if there was perhaps something which she had overlooked that she would be able to give him. She gave R. Shisgal this paper that R. Shloime kept in his Tallis bag as a constant reminder, of the enormity of the importance of learning Torah, to which he had devoted his entire life.
R. Shloime Heiman (1892-1945), commonly referred to in the Yeshiva Torah as “Reb Shloime”, was born in Paritsh, Minsk. When he was 12 years old, he went to study in the Kaminetz Yeshiva under R. Baruch Ber Leibowitz, becoming one of his closest students. In 1918, he married the daughter of R. Yochanan Rodensky of Volozhin, a brother-in-law of R. Simcha Zelig of Brisk. After his marriage, R. Baruch Ber asked R. Shlomo to deliver shiurim in the Kaminetz Yeshiva. There he became famous as one of Lithuania’s most outstanding lomdim and Magidei Shiur. Later he also gave shiurim in the Ohel Torah Yeshiva of Baranovitch under the leadership of R. Elchonon Wasserman. In 1927, at the request of R. Chaim Ozer Grodzensky, R. Shlomo became Rosh Yeshivas Ramailles in Vilna. In 1935, R. Shlomo was invited by R. Shraga Feivel Mendelowitz to serve as Rosh Yeshiva in Torah Vo’daas in NY, a position he accepted with the approval of R. Chaim Ozer, where he remained until his passing.
Letters by R. Shlomo Heiman are extremely rare.
Handwritten on both sides. 9.5 by 17 cm. Very fine condition.
Opening bid $1000
 

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