Bidspirit auction | The Gemara of Rabbi Rabbi

The Gemara of Rabbi Rabbi Gedalyahu HaLevi Schor. Maseches Yevamos, with his signature. Rabbi Gedalyahu HaLevi Schorr (27 November 1910 – 7 July 1979), also known as Gedalia Schorr, was a prominent rabbi and rosh yeshiva. He was regarded as the ”first American Gadol” (Torah giant), an expression coined by Rabbi Aharon Kotler. Indeed, Rabbi Meir Shapiro, the famed rosh yeshiva of Chachmei Lublin, remarked that Rabbi Schorr had the most brilliant mind he ever encountered in America, and one of the most brilliant in the entire world He said this when Rabbi Schorr was only nineteen years old. Early years Schorr was born in Ustrzyki Dolne, Poland, [Yiddish: Istrik] a shtetl near Przemyśl, in 1910, the sixth of Avraham Halevi Schorr's seven children. He was named after his paternal grandfather, Gedalyahu, a highly respected scholar and close Hasid of the Sadigerer Rebbe, a descendant of Yisrael of Rizhin. The Schorr family came to the United States in 1922, settling first on the Lower East Side and then moving to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Gedalia dedicated himself to learning with a passion that he maintained throughout his life. He soon caught the eye of Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, principal of Mesivta Torah Vodaas. Size: 33.5 cm Condition: Overall in fine condition, reinforced spine.