Words of mussar and aggadah in the handwriting of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv from 1966 [delivered on the anniversary of Tiferet Bachurim].
Rabbi Elyashiv begins by talking about the ‘Tiferet Bachurim’ society founded by his father in 1924, and expounds on the topic that something which is built from self-sacrifice exists for many generations. He expounds on the great value of devotion to Torah study, and that all of the roads are bchezkat sakana but one in a group is guaranteed success, the negative effects on a person begin before his birth, when people despair of Torah learning you must stand and support it and you take the reward for everyone, words of aggadah about Rashbi and the years in which he hid in the cave, novaelle about mitrapeh bimlachto ach hu l’ish mashchit and things in the name of the Chafetz Chaim on this [that when one person earns when others are not working he can earn in one hour what he would usually earn over an entire year], and more. Rabbi Elyashiv ends with the members of the management of ‘Tiferet Bachurim’ and blesses them.
Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv [1910-2012] was born in the city of Siauliai in Lithuania, his parents’ only son after 17 years of marriage. Immigrated to Israel with his family in 1924 and settled in the Meah She’arim neighborhood of Jerusalem. Served as a Dayan on the Great Rabbinical Court, and later became the greatest halachic adjudicator of the generation.
[1] official paper leaf, 24×18 cm, written on both sides. Folding marks.