Here\'s the original notebook used by the head of the Torah Shleimah Institute, Rabbi Menachem Kasher. The purpose of the Torah Shleimah was to collect all of the Rabbinic commentaries on the Torah, verse by verse. The project started in the late 1930\'s or early 1940\'s (I have the prospect) and never finished reaching till the beginning of Devarim. This booklet is Rav Kashers OWN HANdWRITING! This booklet contains 72 pages of which 40 pages have handwritten notes by Rav Kasher. The contents are from the Biblical parshiot of Vayeshev, Mikaytz, Vayigash and VaYechi.BIOGRAPHYMenachem Mendel Kasher (Hebrew: מנחם מנדל כשר; March 7, 1895 – November 3, 1983) was a Polish-born Israeli rabbi and prolific author who authored an encyclopedic work on the Torah entitled Torah Sheleimah. Early life Kasher was born in 1895 in Warsaw, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire). His father was Rabbi Yitzhak Peretz. At the age of 19, he edited the periodical Degel Ha\'Torah, the mouthpiece of the Polish branch of Agudath Israel. In 1924 (or 1925[1]), in response to a call from the Ger Rebbe, Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter, Kasher moved to Jerusalem, in Mandate Palestine, to establish the Sfas Emes Yeshiva in honour of the Rebbe\'s father, Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter. He subsequently served as the rosh yeshiva of the yeshiva for its first two years. He later helped bring the Rebbe to Palestine about six months after the outbreak of World War II. Torah Sheleimah Kasher\'s major work, Torah Sheleimah (\"The Complete Torah\"), is divided into two parts. The first part is the encyclopedia, the first work to publish all of the Written Law (the Pentateuch) and the Oral Teachings (Talmud and Midrashim) side by side. Kasher published from manuscript form several previously unknown midrashic works such as the Midrash Teiman. The latter part consists of the extensive annotations and addendum in which he used his awareness of variant texts as well as his almost encyclopedic knowledge in all Jewish works to clarify many obscure points in the Talmud.The first volume of Torah Sheleimah was published in Jerusalem in 1927 and included 352 entries to the first chapter of Bereishit. The 38th volume was published in his lifetime (1983) and included Parshat Beha\'alotcha. The 39th volume was published posthumously by his son-in-law Dr. Rabbi Aaron Greenbaum and includes a short biography. The 40th volume includes an expanded biography and full list of his works. To date, 45 volumes have been printed covering the first four chumashim (books of the Pentateuch). Other activities He was the driving force behind the 25-volume Torah journal \"Noam\" and wrote many of the articles. His son Moshe Shlomo edited its 25 volumes which appeared between 1958 and 1984. Another work, Gemara Shelemah, which was to have discussed and compared variant texts of the Talmud, was never completed save for the beginning of Tractate Pesachim.He was also the editor-in-chief for the Tzafnas Paneach Institute, publishing several volumes of Rabbi Joseph Rosen\'s commentary on Talmud. Rabbi Kasher was the grandfather of philosopher and linguist Asa Kasher. Halachic rulings He permitted an eruv in Manhattan (contrary to the ruling of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein) He formulated a halakhic stance on the international dateline in Jewish law He argued against the \"Lieberman clause\" as a solution to the problem of agunahs – see Get (conflict) In response to the establishment of the State of Israel, he advocated the drinking of a 5th cup at the Passover Seder. His request to the Chief Rabbinate that it be officially instituted was dismissed.Awards and honors:In 1963, Rabbi Kasher was awarded the Israel Prize in Rabbinic literature. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University.
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