A five-house poem, in the handwriting and signature of SY Agnon – dedicated to his friend and spiritual guide Rabbi Eliezer Meir Lifshitz, signed with the full and rare signature of Agnon: “Shmuel Yosef son of the late Rabbi Shalom Mordechai Halevi”. It was written on the eve of Yom Kippur the year 1939 and was dedicated to his 60th birthday.
For a full quote of the song in Hebrew, see a description in the Hebrew language side.
The poem was written and dedicated to Agnon’s friend Rabbi Eliezer Meir Lifshitz (1879-1946) on the occasion of his 60th birthday, which fell on Yom Kippur. Rabbi Lifshitz, a native of Stryi in Galicia, was a rabbi, educator, researcher of Judaism, and one of the leaders of the Mizrachi movement in Eretz Israel. Considered one of the founders and designers of education in the stream of modern Orthodoxy. After his marriage, his home became a home for writers, sages and Zionist activists, and he was inspired by their first steps in literature and science, most of them the from Galician – among them: SY Agnon, Asher Barash, E.I. Braver, Mordechai Ben Yechezkel J. Yalon and more. He studied in depth Agnon’s work in its first and early period, and expected greatness in the field of writing from the beginning of his career as a writer. Rabbi Lifshitz even wrote an article about him in the “Shelach” under the title “S.Y. Agnon”, which was published extensively as an essay in Berlin in 1926.
[2] leaves. Agnon’s official stationery. Folding marks. Good condition.
