Bidspirit auction | SOLOVEITCHIK, CHAIM HALEVI (“R. Chaim

SOLOVEITCHIK, CHAIM HALEVI (“R. Chaim Brisker, ” 1853-1918). Autograph Letter Signed and stamped, written in Hebrew on letterhead to R. Moshe Madilovich(?). Blessings for the New Year. One page, torn at central fold. Monday, 8th Tishrei, 1911. R. Chaim Soloveitchik was the son of the Beis Halevi, R. Yoseph Dov Soloveitchik, the foremost Maggid Shiur in the Volozhin Yeshiva from 1880 until its closure in 1892. He was the innovator of the popular contemporary method of Talmud study in Lithuanian-oriented yeshivos - “the Brisker derech of lomdus.” He also served as the rabbi of Brisk (today Brest, Belarus), a position that was held by both his father, and his son after him.