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LOT 100:
Chever Ma'amarim, Discourses of Rabbi Yerucham of Mir - Vilna, 1939, Vilna 1945.
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Chever Ma'amarim, Discourses of Rabbi Yerucham of Mir - Vilna, 1939, Vilna 1945.
Chever Ma'amarim - discourses of Rabbi Yerucham HaLevi in the Mir Yeshiva. Vilna, 1939.
Important first publication of the musar dissertations of Rabbi Yerucham Leibowitz of Mir. Printed at the end of the summer of 1939, at the time the Mir Yeshiva escaped to Vilna fleeing the ravages of war.
R' Yerucham HaLevi Levovitz (1875-1936), a foremost educator and mussar leader of his generation. A student of the Beit HaTalmud of Kelm, teacher of R. Yechezkel Levenstein. He served as mashgiach in Lithuanian yeshivot, the Radin yeshiva and others. His most significant position was his long tenure as mashgiach of the Mir yeshiva, directing it during its escape to Poltova during WWI. After the yeshiva returned to Mir, he was the driving force behind the rebuilding the yeshiva, and in edifying students who would serve as the Torah leaders of the next generation. His close disciples, who referred to him as "Admor", later became the prominent yeshiva deans of our times, such as R. Chaim Shmulevitz, R. Aryeh Leib Malin (who was one of the compilers of his books of lectures Chavar Maamarim, Daat Chochma UMussar) and others.
He showed special care for students from central Europe, and gave them special mussar classes, in which he imbued them with the tenets of faith and the profound Torah thinking characteristic of Lithuanian yeshivot (these lectures were published in the five volumes of Daat Torah). R. Wolbe, who was one of his youngest disciples, writes about him in his preface to his famous book, Alei Shur: "…how does a Torah man look, after becoming a different person? Come with me… and see the beauty… The author of this book, in his youth… was brought close to a giant among men, the light of our eyes, who resurrects the dead with his speech, R. Yerucham HaLevi… in the Mir Yeshiva…".
Size: 23.5 cm
Pages: [1], VII, 450, [2] pages.
Condition: Overall in very fine condition, some pages in the beginning are chipped at the bottom corner, new modern leather binding.
