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An important letter from the genius Rabbi Isaac Sher - to Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Levin - about the engagement of his granddaughter - all in his handwriting and signature - An important letter from the genius Rabbi Isaac Sher - to Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Levin - about the engagement of his granddaughter - all in his handwriting and signature Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Scher (1875-1952), a disciple of Rabbi Baruch Ber Lebowitz in Halusk and in Volozhin, before becoming a close disciple and son-in-law of Rabbi Nassan Tzvi Finkel of Slabodka. He later became an assistant head of the Yeshiva, and from 1921 head of its Kollel. After the emigration of his father-in-law to Eretz Yisrael in 1925, Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Scher became head of the Slabodka Yeshiva – together with Rabbi Avraham Grodzenski. At the outbreak of WWII, he was in Switzerland for medical reasons, and thus was saved. He arrived in Eretz Yisrael in 1941, setting up a Kollel in Yerushalayim and re-establishing the Slabodka Yeshiva in Bnei Brak in 1952.