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And the zchus of Rabbi Yitzchak Elhanan, will stand for him and all those who help - a rare receipt note from the Slabodka yeshiva Signed by the head of the Yeshiva HaGaon, R. Baruch Dov Leibowitz - with the name of his father, Rabbi Shmuel David - And the zchus of Rabbi Yitzchak Elhanan, will stand for him and all those who help - a rare receipt note from the Slabodka yeshiva Signed by the head of the Yeshiva HaGaon, R. Baruch Dov Leibowitz - with the name of his father, Rabbi Shmuel David אודות השד”ר רבי משה יעקב הורוויץ R. Baruch Dov (Ber) Leibowitz (1864-1940), author of Birkat Shmuel, leading Torah disseminator in his times. He was a disciple of R. Chaim of Brisk in the Volozhin yeshiva, and the son-in-law of R. Avraham Yitzchak Zimmerman Rabbi of Hlusk. After his father-in-law went to serve as rabbi of Kremenchuk, he succeeded him in Hlusk and established a yeshiva. After a 13-year tenure, he was asked to head the Knesset Beit Yitzchak yeshiva in Slabodka. During WWI, he wandered with the yeshiva to Minsk, Kremenchuk and Vilna, finally settling in Kamenitz. He authored Birkat Shmuel on Talmudic topics. His writings are classic works of in-depth yeshiva Torah study.