"Letter of Appointment for the Crown of Torah" - Letter of appointment of Rabbi Michal Sharga Haris to the treasurer of the Beit Midrash for the Aohel Torah in the Rehavia neighborhood in Jerusalem. Signature of the President, the Rabbi of London Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman and other geniuses. Cheshvan 11, 1940.
(Attached: the letter from the secretary sent to Rabbi Michal Sharaga Haris himself).
The Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman [1868-1953] the Chief Rabbi of Glasgow and Rabbi of London, author of a series of books "Or HaYashar". Father-in-law of the Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Isaac Halevi Herzog. Already at the age of 20 he was appointed rabbi and head of the Beit din in Razino - Belarus. Received ordination from the greatest of the generation: the Aderet, Rabbi Raphael Shapira, Rabbi Meir Simcha, and the Ridbaz. In 1914 he was appointed Raba"d London. In 1934 he immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Jerusalem. He founded the "Ohel Torah" Yeshiva in the Rehavia neighborhood, which served as a kollel for well-known scholars. Among them: Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Wazner, and Rabbi Binyamin Yehoshua Zilber.
[1] leaf. 28x22 cm. Very good condition.
