Semihca (Ordination) Letter Handwritten and Signed by the "Cheshek Shlomo", the Eldest of the Rabbis of Vilnius ...

Semihca (Ordination) Letter Handwritten and Signed by the "Cheshek Shlomo", the Eldest of the Rabbis of Vilnius, for Rabbi David Ze'ev Yavrov / A Letter Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Yavrov - Special!
A. An exceptional Semicha (Ordination) letter, handwritten and signed by Rabbi Shlomo Ha'Cohen of Vilnius, author of "Cheshek Shlomo" given to Rabbi David Ze'eb Yavrov when he was only 18 years old.
The letter demonstrates the unusual appreciation felt by the "Cheshek Shlomo" for Rabbi Yavrov already in his youth.
Among the praises, the "Cheshek Shlomo" writes: "when he diligently studied with me for more than a year … knowledgeable of Shas and Poskim is the great rabbi … great grandson and grandson of the Divine kabbalist Rabbi Eliyahu who is called by all Eliyahu Ba'al Shem … therefore he is deserving … since he is proficient in Piskei Halachot as one of the greatest rabbis of our times … and is considered an outstanding rabbi of the generation … and he is fitting to be appointed a Moreh Tzeddek and Av Beit Din and he can be relied on … and his Piskei Halachot should not be doubted since he is one in a million…"
At the end of the letter: "… Shlomo Cohen author of Cheshek Shlomo, Moreh Tezddek Vilnius", with the stamp of Rabbi Shlomo Ha'Cohen.

Rabbi David Ze'ev Yavrov (died in 1912), the grandson of the Ba'al Shem Tov, was called the "Włoszczower Rabbi". In his youth he studied at the yeshiva of Sluck and was then called "the prodigy of Sluck". When he was eighteen, he became the rabbi of Bryansk. From there he moved to Przysucha and later to Włoszczowa, where he served as rabbi.
He was a genius of Torah, Kabbala and the teachings of Chabad.
When he was rabbi of Włoszczowa, the Russian Tsar became sick and the Jews were ordered to pray for his health. Rabbi Yavrov said a special prayer of "Mi She'Beirach" in the presence of ministers and when the Tsar recovered, he sent Rabbi Yavrov a letter signed by him to thank him for the prayer. In his last years, he resigned his post as rabbi and moved to Lodz to study and teach Torah (Nerot Shabbat, 1948, pp. 203).

Shlomo HaKohen (1828-1905) was the famed Av Beit Din and Posek of Vilnius author of "Cheshek Shlomo|, "Binyan Shlomo" and additional books. The great friend of the "Chafetz Chaim". Was one of the rabbis who approbated the "Mishnah Berurah". His older brother was Rabbi Bezalel Ha'Cohen, aithor of "Mar'eh Cohen". His only son, Rabbi Avraham Ya'akov Ha'Cohen, replced him as rabbi of Vilnius.

16.5x21 cm.
Condition: Good. Thick leaf. Folding marks. On the lower part of the leaf, a flaw with no damage to text. Slight blurs of ink.

B. Document of obtaining evidence, confirmation and joining a hundred rabbis in permitting a man whose wife has been gone for five years to remarry, handwritten and signed by Rabbi David Ze'ev Yavrov. Lodz, 1911.
After the signatures of the witnesses, an addition in his handwriting: "the signature of the witnesses who are kosher and reliable and can be relied on for this agreement to release him from the abandoning woman … I hereby sign David Ze'ev grandson of Rabbi Eliyahu Ba'al Shem". With his personal stamp.
On the lower part of the leaf, an additional inscription in his handwriting in which he asks: "this Kvitle … with the well-known Tzaddik the grandson of the Gaon of Radoszyce Rabbi Reb Ber".

15x20 cm.
Condition: Good. Folding marks. Damaged margins.

The Semicha letter of Rabbi Shlomo Ha'Cohen of Vilnius was most likely written when Rabbi Yavrov was a young man of only eighteen years old, before he became rabbi of Bryansk.
The letter from Lodz is from approximately a year before he died, when he studied Torah in Lodz.
Before us are two items from the beginning and end of Rabbi David Ze'ev Yavrov's life.
Rare, special and interesting!