"On the matter of the Holy Yeshiva Mir" - an unknown poster which the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski came out to call for the Reinforcement of the Mir Yeshiva, whose material condition was dwindling (in the period between the two world wars). Hebrew and Yiddish column by column. Kislev 15, Vilna 1928.
"In the Diaspora of Israel the nature of the great and ancient yeshiva of Mir is known. During the entire period of its existence, the light of the Torah never stop to shine, even during the days of World War I, and after days of wanderings and upheavals, many benches were added to the Beit HaMidrash and about four hundred Torah scholars study there with great diligence ... and this yeshiva is today of the greatest yeshiva in quantity and quality in our Galilee ... Please strengthen ... Woke up to the voice of the call, the of Mount Horev to hasten help ... and the doers and deeds will be blessed with the blessings said to the founders of Torah, Blessed be who establishes the Torah ... " Kislev 15, 1928, Vilna.
Extremely rare. The poster does not appear in the National Library's Ephemera Collection, and is not known in the bibliography.
Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzensky [1863-1940], rabbi of all the Diaspora, one of the leaders of world Jewry in the generation before the Holocaust. Rabbi of Vilna and author of the responsa of Ahiezer. Rabbi Chaim Ozer served in the highest position, as president of the Council of Torah Scholars, and is considered the leader of Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox Judaism at a time when world greats scolars such as Chafetz Chaim and Rabbi Chaim from Brisk lived, and Hafetz Haim even used to call him "Nessih Klal Israel".
On the back of the poster are Torah innovations in handwritten pencil.
Size: 34 x 28 cm. Tears along some of the fold marks (reinforced on the back with tape), slight lack in a few words. Slight tears at the edges. Good condition.
