A notice of mourning that hung in the streets of the death of the Gaon of Mussar Rabbi Yehuda Leib Chasman immediately upon hearing about his passing before he was brought for burial. “The crown of our head was taken away from us by the ark of G-o-d Adonenu Moreno and our righteous Rabbi Maran Rabbi Yehudah Leib Hassman zt” l, the spiritual director of our Yeshivah”, on the margins of the ad, details of the date of the funeral.
The Gaon Rabbi Yehudah Leib Hasman [1869-1936], immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1926, and immediately upon his arrival began to serve as the spiritual director of the Yeshiva of Hebron, while he accepted the request of the grandfather of Slobodka Rabbi Natan Tzvi Finkel Then he was in his 70s and asked for a strong and energetic personality that would influence yeshiva students, and he would make regular moral discussions in the yeshiva hall as well as ‘committees’ for groups of students who would come to his home. And his students saw their great rabbi as a guide for their own affairs. After the 1929 riots in which he was saved miraculously, he moved with the remnants of his yeshiva to Jerusalem and served as the spiritual director of the Yeshiva in the new city, where his influence spread beyond the boundaries of the yeshiva and many others.
Size: 50×33 cm, stains. fine condition.
