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Mir Dynasty Vast Collection of Shiurim handwritten by Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, Rosh Yeshiva of Mir From 1923 and onward * An extremely important collection of shiurim delivered by Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, Rosh Yeshiva of Mir, on various masechtos studied in the yeshiva, delivered to his talmidim over many years, from 1923 and onward. The collection includes approximately 120 leaves in his own handwriting (see below), along with several shiurim written by his son-in-law and successor, Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz, and his grandson-in-law, Rabbi Nachum Partzovitz. The Mir Dynasty The Roshei Yeshiva Reb Eliezer Yudel, Reb Chaim, and Reb Nachum spread Torah through their renowned shiurim in the Mir Yeshiva, in a golden period that spanned eighty years (1907–1987). Reb Eliezer Yehuda Finkel began delivering shiurim in 1907 and served as Rosh Yeshiva from 1917 until 1965. Reb Chaim Shmulevitz began delivering shiurim in 1936 and served as Rosh Yeshiva from 1965 until 1979. Reb Nachum Partzovitz  began delivering shiurim in 1965 and served as Rosh Yeshiva from 1979 until 1987. Contents of the Collection: Approximately 120 leaves in Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel's own handwriting (written on both sides). Approximately 300 typed pages, with many additions and emendations in his handwriting. 5 leaves of shiurim copied in the handwriting of Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz, from the Mir period. A large leaf in the handwriting of Rabbi Nachum Partzovitz, to whom Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda entrusted the preparation of his writings for print. Rabbi Nachum’s editorial notes and markings also appear on some of the typewritten leaves. Dates noted on the manuscript pages span from the 1920s through 1940. Rabbi Eliezer Yehudah Finkel (1879-1965) was the son of the Alter of Slabodka and Rosh Yeshivah of Mir and was a key figure in rebuilding the Torah world after the Holocaust. In 1903, he married the daughter of Rabbi Eliyahu Baruch Kamai, Av Beis Din and Rosh Yeshiva of Mir, and in 1907 was appointed to teach in the Yeshiva alongside his father-in-law. For over fifty years, he delivered shiurim in the Mir Yeshiva and raised generations of great Torah scholars and roshei yeshiva. Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda transformed the Mir into a flly structured yeshiva by instituting learning schedules, regular tefillos, and mussar sessions, following the methodology of his father, the Alter of Slabodka. He appointed Rabbi Yerucham Levovitz as the mashgiach, which played a significant role in establishing Mir as one of the leading yeshivos in the Torah world.. Of his shiurim, Rabbi Moshe Tzinovitz, historian of Lithuanian yeshivos and a talmid of Mir at the time, writes: “Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel’s shiurim, which began several years before the outbreak of World War I, followed the path of the Lithuanian roshei yeshiva of the later period, particularly in the style of his rebbi, the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik. It was a method of deep understanding and clarity, penetrating the essence of the halachah, weighing it in a comprehensive intellectual fashion and innovating chiddushim based on clear reasoning.” Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda’s shiurim were printed in the two volumes of Divrei Eliezer (Jerusalem, 1964), with the editing work done by Rabbi Nachum Partzovitz. See the introduction of Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda to Divrei Eliezer, and also Binyan Nachum (Jerusalem, 2017), pp. 784–785.