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Purchased Directly from the Author, Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman: Kovetz He'arot on Tractate Yevamot. First Edition. Piotrków 1932. - Kovetz He'arot on Tractate Yevamot, the celebrated work of Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman הי”ד. First edition. Piotrków, 1932. Bound with the volume is Likkutei Teshuvot together with Kuntres Acharon of Rabbeinu Rashba, on topics relating to Tractate Yevamot, edited by Rabbi Simcha ben Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman Kovetz He'arot has earned an enduring place as one of the foundational works of the Lithuanian yeshiva world, cited repeatedly in the Talmudic analyses and discussions of leading roshei yeshivah and their students. The first two title pages bear the signatures and stamps of Rabbi Shneur Zalman Yosef Dubov of the Mir Yeshivah. On the verso of the third title page is his autograph ownership inscription: ”The earth is the Lord's and its fullness. 3 Kislev 1933. The sefer Teshuvot HaRashba and the sefer Kovetz He'arot belong to the yeshivah student Zalman Yosef Dubov. I purchased them from the eminent Rabbi, our teacher Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman, may he live long, while I was in Vilna.” Rabbi Shneur Zalman Yosef Dubov (1916–2003) studied at the yeshivot of Grodno, where he learned under Rabbi Shimon Shkop alongside Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky and Rabbi Yechezkel (”Zeidel”) Epstein, as well as at the Mir Yeshivah in Lithuania and the Hebron Yeshivah in Jerusalem. He married Sarah Leah, daughter of Rabbi Michal Asher ben Rabbi Akiva Matlin. Succeeding both his father-in-law and grandfather-in-law, he served as Av Beit Din of Dublin and subsequently as the chief rabbinic authority of Ireland. In his later years, he was appointed Rosh Av Beit Din of the Federation of Synagogues in London. He authored numerous important Torah works, including Ketonet Yosef, Degel Yosef, and HaKiddushin BeYisrael. He maintained a close relationship with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, to whom he addressed several scholarly Torah essays that were later published in Chabad periodicals.