Tractate: The Onset of the Messiah

Elhanan Wasserman

1938

Deeds of the Fathers

4. [ . . . ] The Gaon of Vilna writes [in his Even Shelemah] that the second chapter of Vayishla? is the chapter of the “footsteps of the Messiah.” When Jacob returned from his exile, it says: “And he put the handmaids and their children foremost” [Genesis 33:2]. The Gaon says: This shows that in the [era of the] “footsteps of…

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Elhanan Wasserman

1875–1941

Elhanan Bunim Wasserman, born in Birz, Lithuania, was a disciple of the Hafetz Chaim (Israel Meir Kagan). Wasserman served as head of the yeshiva in Brisk [today, Brest-Litovsk, Belarus] from 1910 to 1914, and he was one of the Lithuanian Misnagdic rabbis who promoted the Brisker method of Talmud study in his yeshiva Ohel Torah in Baranovitsh [today, Brest-Litovsk, Belarus]. He was active in Agudas Yisroel (Agudat Israel), strongly opposing Zionism in particular and nationalism in general. He was murdered by Lithuanian Nazi collaborators.

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