Rabbi Joseph Shaposhnick (Shapotshnick) was eventually to become, after he emigrated to London, a controversial and divisive rabbi in the rabbinical world. He was born in Kishinev in 1892 and in 1902, when he was just 20 years old, long before the controversies, the young prodigy had this, his first book, published in Odessa. As … Continue reading Birkat Yosef, by Rabbi Joseph Shaposhnick, Odessa, 1902. →