Rare and important collection with seventeen letters from leading rashei yeshivahs of the previous generation who shone like the sun and revived the destroyed Torah world with their own hands. Most of the letters deal with topics related to granting their disciples rabbinic ordination, which was especially necessary after the Holocaust that wiped out rabbis of the previous era. Land of Israel, mid-late 20th century.
Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky and Rabbi David Povarsky, rashei yeshivah of Ponovezh – request for semichah for a disciple
Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe, mashgiach of Yeshivat Be’er Ya’akov and one of the leading mashgichim of the previous generation – request for semichah for a disciple
Rabbi Eliyahu Mishkovsky, rosh yeshivah of Knesset Chizkiyahu and rabbi of Kfar Chassidim – request for an approbation for a disciple
Rabbi Yitzchak Ezrachi shlit”a, one of the rashei yeshivah of Mir – request for semichah for a disciple
Rabbi Aryeh Finkel, rosh yeshivah of Mir – letter of semichah for a disciple
Rabbi David Povarsky, rosh yeshivah of Ponovezh – letter for a disciple who is excelling at yeshivah
Rabbi Moshe Finkel, son of the gaon Rabbi Eliezer Yehudah Finkel, rosh yeshivah of Mir – request for semichah for an avreich
Rabbi Aharon Chadash, mashgiach of the Mir yeshivah for over fifty years – request for semichah for a disciple
Rabbi Beinush Finkel, rosh yeshivah of Mir and member of the Council of Torah sages – semichah for a disciple
Rabbi Hillel Zaks, rosh yeshivah of Chevron – request for semichah for a disciple ” v’chol min din smucho lana ”
Rabbi Chaim Sarna, rosh yeshivah of Chevron-Givat Mordechai, and rosh yeshivah of Chevron-Geulah – request for semichah for a disciple
Rabbi Avraham Farbstein, rosh yeshivah of Chevron and member of the Council of Torah sages – acceptance of a young man into the yeshivah “I really look forward to your young son, your ben zekunim ”
Rabbi Simchah Zissel Broide, rosh yeshivah of Chevron and member of the Council of Torah sages – request for semichah for a disciple
Rabbi Baruch Shimon Salomon, rosh yeshivah of Nachalat David and av beit din of Petach Tikvah – letter of recommendation for a disciple “I hereby attest that he is very talented”
Rabbi Yissachar Meir, head of Yeshivat HaNegev and author of the sefarim Sachar Sachir – request for semichah for a disciple, “grant him Yoreh Yoreh ordination”
Rabbi Baruch Shimon Schneerson, rosh yeshivah of Tshebin – condolence letter
Rabbi Yitzchak Flexer, rosh yeshivah of Sefat Emet, member of the Council of Torah Sages and ra’ava”d of Bada”tz Agudat Yisrael – birkat hashanim
Various sizes and conditions, overall fine condition.