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Rabbi Chaim Walkin
Sefer Da’at Chaim

Introduction to the translationof Sefer Da’at Chaim
during that time when Rabbi Walkin visited Brooklyn I went to listen
to his shiurim, and gave him copies of the some of the printed essays.
The Rabbi befriended me and we developed a cordial relationship,
meeting him in his home in Bayit VeGan and in his son’s Brooklyn
home during his trips to America. During those years, and especially
during the year of Covid-isolation the translation of the entire sefer
was completed including the three ma’amarim from Rabbi Walkin’s
Elul lectures.

A word about the sefer’s cover: Three years ago, two of my grandsons
Sholomo Abady and Yedidya Levy were bachurim learning in the
Ramat Shlomo section of Yerushalayim in Yeshivat Yesod HaTorah. Dedicated in loving memory of
The boys went to a va’ad in Rabbi Walkin’s home and Yedidya our beloved children,
snapped a picture of the Rabbi giving his shiur. The picture hangs on
the wall in our library, and with the Rabbi’s permission it appears on
the cover of this translation. Amazing! Hashem’s personal Providence our dear daughter
spanning generations is amazing; from my son David’s chance visit to Mazal Abady Bat Yedidya and
the Rabbi’s va’ad (David went at the urging of his friend), to coming
across the Rabbi’s sefer in my library and meeting the Rabbi, and later Frieda Levy A”H
my grandsons going to listen to his shiur and snapping his picture.
בוט יכ 'הל ודוה, a Song to truly sing.
and our precious grandson
Yosef Ben Eliyahu and Sarah
Some incidental notes by Rebbetzin Henny Walkin: Rabbi Walkin’s
father Rabbi Shmuel David Walkin Z”L studied in the Radin Yeshiva Levy Z”L
for fourteen years under his rebbe the Chafetz Chayim. Some of his
notes on the Chafetz Chayim’s lectures were compiled by the Walkin
family, and in 5771 they were published in a sefer entitled הביבש
רוא (Sheviveh Ohr), followed soon afterwards by the publication of
English translation of the sefer under the title “Sparks of Lights.”
Rabbi Walkin’s mother Tzivia is the granddaughter of the Gaon Rabbi
Moshe Londinsky who was the head of the Radin Yeshiva. She lived
with her grandfather in the same building as the Chafetz Chayim and
for years they would eat their Shabbos meals with the Chafetz Chayim.

This wedding celebration photo appears in sefer Sheviveh Ohr. Seated
at the head of the table is the Rosh of the Radin Yeshiva, the Gaon

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