Words of aggadah in the handwriting of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv on the occasion of the birthday of Tiferet Bachurim. [Jerusalem], 1961.
Specifications: [3] pages, paper. 15×20 cm. Handwritten in tiny, cramped letters.
Unique Features: At the beginning of the work he discusses birthdays, “Each individual person in his own life, and even more so in communal life, on the day on which a year ends and he enters his new year, should think thoughts and take account of his actions from the previous year.” He later writes that one should put effort into spiritual matters in order to become stronger, to act with freshness and emotion, without becoming jaded.
Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv [1910-2012], was born in the city of Shavel, Lithuania, his parent’s only son after 17 years of marriage. He immigrated to Israel with his family in 1924, settling in the Meah Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem. He served as a dayan on the Great Rabbinical Court, and later became the greatest halachic adjudicator of the generation.
Condition: Very fine, a tiny tear at the top of the leaf, a few slight aging stains.