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Fascinating Letter Handwritten and Signed by Maran Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grdozinsky - Adressed to the Gaon Rabbi Nechemya Malin the Rosh Yeshiva of Brisk - Fascinating letter handwritten by the Gaon Ranni Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky - addressed to the Gaon Rabbi Nechemya Malin, the Rosh Yeshiva of Knesset Yehuda - with reference to Maran the Gaon Rabbi Shimon Shkop and the Rosh Yeshivas of Mir, Kemnitz and Kleck.  Rabbeinu sent the letter is response to Rabbi Malin's appeal pertaining to a Kollel founded by his father. Rabbeinu writes to him that the matter depends on the decision of Rabbi Shimon Shkop and the Rosh Yeshivas of Mir, Kemnitz and Kleck: אין הענין מסור” בידי רק בידי הרמי”ם הרבנים הגאונים שיחי' הגר”ש שקאפ נ”' ור”י דמיר קאמניץ וקלעצק, אם להכניס מוסד כזה לועד הישיבות... ויחקרו לדעת את מספר הלומדים..”. Later in the letter, Rabbeinu inquires as to the health of his father, the Gaon Rabbi Yisrael Isser Malin: ”נצטערתי מאד לשמוע ממחלת כבוד אביו הרה”ג א' שי'...”. 10.5X15 cm.  Good condition.  The Gaon Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky [1863-1940], Av Beit Din of Vilna, leading contemporary Rav and leader of world Jewry. Studied in the Volozhin yeshiva with the Gaon Rabbi Chaim of Brisk. In 1885 he was appointed Rav of Vilna (although he was never its officially Rav since out of respect for HaGra, there was no official Rav of Vilna since his passing), president of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah who was considered the leader of Lithuanian Chareidi Jewry at the time in which great rabbis such as the Chafetz Chaim and Rabbi Chaim of Brisk lived, Worked for strengthening religion and establishing the yeshiva world, founding the Vaad Hayeshivot with the Chafetz Chaim. Author of the Shut Achiezer.