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Plate 2: [H+Y] Dedication of the Yeshiva building Participants labeled with Hebrew numbers. |
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| א | Head of the Yeshiva, the Gaon Rabbi R' Aharon Kotler |
| ב | Rabbi Khayim Shimon Hernzon |
| ג | the Rabbi A. Tz. Ka'my, from Mir |
| ד | the Rabbi R' Aharon Volkin, from Pinsk |
| ה | the Rabbi from Mnyesvizsh,Yerakhmiel Bergman |
| ו | representative of the Rabbis in Vilna, the Gaon Rabbi R' M. Karlitz |
| ז | the Rabbi from Rakau, R' Avraham Kadlmanovitz |
| ח | the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Epshtein, from Kletzk |
| ט | the Rabbi R' Aharon Burgansky, from Sna've |
| י | the Gaon Rabbi R' Yaakov Yaslovsky, from Kletzk |
| יב | Rabbi D.D.Kreizer, from Kletzk |
| יג | the Gaon Rabbi R' Yosef Shuv, from Vilna, representative of the Committee of the Yeshivas |
| יד | The Magid Rapaport, from Bialystok |
| טו | Rabbi R. S. Greyniman, representative of The Khorev Center in Vilna |
| טז | R' Khayim Pimshtein, Chairman of the Building Committee |
| יז | R' Nakhman Melamed, the Yeshiva Scribe |
| יח | Mr. Tz. M. R., from Bialystok |
| Plate 2d: [Banner at photo top:] Laying the corner-stone for the building of the holy YeshivaEtz-Chayim of Slutzk, now in Kletzk, Tuesday, first of the month of Iyar, 5687 [3rd of May 1927] |
| Notes: Gaon: brilliant. Mnyesvizsh: probably Nesvizh, the nearest town of any size to the north of Kletzk. Sna've: possibly the small town Snow, northwest of Kletzk. Magid: a traveling narrator of Torah and religious stories. Etz-Chayim: Hebrew: Tree of Life. |