Withdrawn. Booklets Handwritten by Rabbi Dessler – Unpublished Torah Novellae – From His Student Years – Kelm, 1919-1920

Withdrawn.

Three booklets handwritten by R. Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler author of Michtav MeEliyahu. Autograph, with deletions and additions, and with the author's stamps. Kelm (Kelmė), summer 1919 – Kislev 1920.
Booklets of Torah novellae encompassing Talmudic topics in profound scholarly study – from R. Dessler's student years and the first year of his marriage. The first booklet contains Torah novellae on tractate Yevamot, recorded in the summer 1919 Zman – the first Zman following the reopening of the yeshiva in Kelm, after an exile of over four years, during WWI. The second booklet pertains to tractate Sotah, composed during Elul 1919, that year. The third booklet concerns a topic in the Chezkat HaBatim chapter, tractate Bava Batra, and was written on Chanukah 1920 in Kelm.
R. Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (1892-1954), an alumnus of the Kelm yeshiva. He was the son-in-law of R. Nachum Ze'ev Ziv of Kelm, and son of R. Reuven Dov Dessler – both heads of the Talmud Torah in Kelm. In 1906, the young prodigy came to study in the Kelm yeshiva, alongside the best learners of Lithuanian yeshivot (most students were several years his seniors). During WWI, he was exiled with his parents to Gomel, Ukraine. With the termination of the war in 1919 and the return of the exiles to Lithuania, the students of the Talmud Torah began gathering once again in Kelm. The student Eliyahu Dessler – then 27 years old, resumed his studies in his regular corner of the Kelm Beit Midrash, where he had always engaged in profound study with great diligence. After a short while, he was betrothed to Rebbetzin Bluma, daughter of R. Nachum Ze'ev (R. Nachum Velvel), and their wedding took place in Kelm in Adar 1920. This was a stately match between princes of the Musar movement and families of Lithuanian Torah nobility: R. Eliyahu Dessler – great-grandson of R. Yisrael of Salant, to the granddaughter of the Saba of Kelm, foremost disciple of R. Yisrael of Salant. In 1927, R. Eliyahu Eliezer arrived in England and was appointed rabbi of Dalston, London. He was one of the founders of the Gateshead Kollel, and of Torah institutions throughout England. Near the end of his life, he went to serve as mashgiach of the Ponovezh yeshiva in Bnei Brak, and was the spiritual mentor who guided the founding of the Pe'ilim organization, which fought for the souls of the immigrants to Israel and directed their children to religious, Torah education. His profound lectures constructed upon the fundamentals of ethics, Kabbalah and Chassidism were published by his disciples in the five volumes of Michtav MeEliyahu and in Sefer HaZikaron – LeBaal HaMichtav MeEliyahu.
The majority of R. Dessler's novellae on the Talmud were not published, and were presumably lost over the years. A small part of his novellae was recorded by his disciple (whom he taught in England), R. Solomon David Sassoon, and published in 1992 under the title Chiddushei R. Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler on the Talmud. In 2005, the book was reprinted, with the addition of a second part. These novellae were not printed there, and are presumably a revelation of another small part of the Torah light of R. Dessler.
3 notebooks: 26 leaves (including: 3 title pages + 46 written pages). Approx. 17.5-18.5 cm. Condition varies, good to good-fair. Folding marks. Stains and wear. Leaves stitched together with thread. Without binding or cover.