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Lot #    25477
Auction End Date    1/12/2010 10:10:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    R. Jacob Moses haKohen Lessin
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר יעקב משה הכהן לעסין
Author    [Ms.]
City    New York
Publication Date    1967
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 280:215 mm, creased on folds, light age staining, signed and dated..
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Lessin was born in Kapoli, Minsk. He received his rabbinical training in Yeshivat Kneses Yisroel from 1905 until 1912, and was a prominent talmid of the Sabah, the famed Rabbi Finkel of Slabodka. He attended to the personal needs of the Sabah and absorbed his teaching. Here received rabbinical ordination from R. Moses Mordechai Epstein, the noted Slabodka rosh yeshiva, and R. Boruch Dov Leibowitz, rosh yeshiva of Kamenetz. He served as rabbi of Lithuania specifically in the cities of Gertigoli and Neishtat-Sugind. In 1939, at the outbreak of World War II, he came to America and served for three years as a rabbi in Boston. He founded yeshivot in Chelsea and Dorchester. In 1942, he was appointed mashgiach ruchani of Rabbi Isaac Elchonon Theological Seminary (RIETS) by its presidents Dr. Belkin. He authored three works on ethics: Derech Chaim, Orach Chaim, and Hamaor Shebatorah. He passed away in 1975.
          
Reference
Description		    And your eyes shall see your teacher, Charlop.
        
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20th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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Kind of Judaica