A letter in the handwriting of Rabbi Eliyahu Baruch Kamai, Av Beit Din and Rosh Yeshiva of Mir for almost twenty years.
Specifications: [1] page, 13×15 cm.
Unique Features: A letter from 1895, sent from the city of Chechnowitz where he served as Rabbi, to a Torah scholar who requested from him to review a booklet of his Torah novellae. Rabbi Eliyahu Baruch apologizes that due to his many duties in his rabbinical position, teaching his regular classes and learning with his son, he does not have time to review the novellae, and asks his forgiveness.
Background: Rabbi Eliyahu Baruch Kamai, one of the great Lithuanian Rabbis, Rosh Yeshiva of Mir from 1899 and Rabbi of Mir (after the Adere”t immigrated to Jerusalem). He was born in the city of Telz in 1840, served as Rabbi of Skuodas until 1868, when he was appointed, due to the recommendation of the “Beit HaLevi” who publicized him as one of the great Rabbis of the time, to serve as Rabbi of Karelichy. He then moved to Vieksniai and later to Chechnowitz. In 1899 he was called on to succeed Rabbi Chaim Leib Tikutinsky as Rosh Yeshiva of Mir. His arrival in Mir heralded the beginning of a new era, he combined sharpness and astounding fluency in the works of the later sages with tremendous love of Torah. He infused his students with vitality and joy and dedicated himself entirely to the yeshiva, until he passed away in 1917. The booklet “Zikaron Eliyahu”, a remnant of his many Torah novellae, was printed in the book of his son-in-law, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, Rosh Yeshiva of Mir, [Rabboteinu Shebgolah part one pages 172-174].
Condition: Fine. Folding marks. The extraneous paper under the letter was cut off.