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Lot #    25227
Auction End Date    12/8/2009 10:55:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Le-shanah tova tikatevu
Title (Hebrew)    לשנה טובה תכתבו
Author    Yeshivat Torah Hayim
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    Goldberg
Publication Date    [1925]
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Single sheet of paper printed on both sides 315:239 mm., creased on folds.
          
Detailed
Description		    An appeal for funds at the time of the Jewish New Year from Yeshivath Torath Hayim of Jerusalem. The appeal is written in Yiddish and in English.

The other side contains testimonies from many prominent Rabbis who visited the Yeshiva and added their testimonies about the great work that is being done there. These include: R. Meir Berlin Head of Mizrahi in New York, R. Isser Judah Unterman Chief Rabbi of Liverpool (future Chief Rabbi of Israel), R. David Mordechai Twersky Admor of Tolne, R. Gedalya Silverstone Chief Rabbi of Washington DC, R. Samuel Isaac Hilman of London, et al.
          
Paragraph 2    In 1886, Rabbi Yitzchak Winongrad established the prestigious Torath Chaim Yeshiva on ha-Gai Street, facing the Temple Mount. At its peak, about 300 students from all over the world, including the late Rabbis Tzvi Pesach Frank, Tzvi Yehuda Kook, Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog and Aryeh Levin studied there. The ground floor of the building served as a shop selling vegetables which provided funds for the yeshivas maintenance. In the wake of the 1936 Arab riots, the yeshiva relocated to the new city, leaving the building and its contents entrusted to an Arab watchman who faithfully preserved it until the reunification of Jerusalem in 1967. This yeshiva was the only one out of approximately 80 synagogues and study halls which wasn't destroyed by Jordan during the Jordanian occupation of Jerusalem. In 1967, the caretaker handed the keys to Chaim Herzog (in his function as the military governor of Judea and Samaria/the West Bank), telling him that "the holy place watched over me more than I watched over it" during those years.
          
Reference
Description		    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ateret_Cohanim
        
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20th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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