Rabbi Baruch Dov Leibowitz

Head of Yeshivat Mir, Jerusalem

To my dear friend, the honorable groom Rabbi Efraim shlit"a

I was delighted to see the draft of your book, which you plan to publish upon your wedding day.

I have known you since you were young when you took upon yourself Torah study, nights like days, going deep into hard materials, one tractate after the other, going uphill in glory.

and in the Torah path, you were blessed by the Torah Giver to taste the sweetness of the Torah and come up with new deep interpretations, as I have already witnessed in the past, happy is the eye who saw all of this.

Now you plan to publish your compositions which you dealt with, outside the Yeshiva's schedule, halachic questions and answers which you collected from different books of our sages, and added your own interpretations as well.

Its only left for me to give you a simple blessing, from the depth of my heart, may you add more and more, and we see fruits and flowers from your studies, and we shall benefit from your Torah springs.
May this house that you build would testify that you went in the straight path of the Torah, not turning left or right, and God should bestow his holiness upon your house.

Rabbi Baruch Dov Leibowitz- Head of Yeshivat Mir, Jerusalem