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Writing a Sefer Torah to savethe Yeshiva of Telz! A special letter from the genius Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch - 1334 - Writing a Sefer Torah to savethe  Yeshiva of Telz! A special letter from the genius Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch - 1334 To Rabbi Tovia Gefen R. Avraham Yitzchak Bloch (1890-1941), Rabbi and yeshiva dean of Telz. Third generation of deans of the Telz yeshiva, second son of the Shiurei Daat, R. Yosef Leib Bloch, and grandson of R. Eliezer Gordon founder of the yeshiva. From his childhood, he was renowned for his outstanding talent and intensive study typical of Telz. At the age of 30, in 1920, he was appointed head lecturer and yeshiva dean (in his father's lifetime), and with his father's passing in Cheshvan 1929, he was appointed yeshiva dean and his father's successor as rabbi of the city. With the Nazi invasion in the summer of 1941, he was brutally murdered near Telz, together with hundreds of the yeshiva's students and rabbis, most of his family and community. His novellae were published in the book Chiddushei Rabbenu Avraham Yitzchak MiTelz. In the foreword, he is described as ”a Torah teacher who merited fame in his own generation for his remarkable lectures displaying comprehension and depth of Torah knowledge”. Of all his children, only three daughters survived, one was Rebbetzin Rachel Sorotzkin, wife of R. Baruch Sorotzkin, who was later appointed dean of the Telz yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio in the US