A previously unknown photograph of the Chofetz Chaim has been unearthed by a researcher. The Chofetz Chaim is seen sitting with two other individuals who identities remain unknown.
It isn’t yet clear when the photo was taken or the context to the picture.
{Matzav.com}
Jow do we know this is legitimate and indeed it’s the Chofetz Chaim? It looks like a stock picture/painting of a Rabbi of that era.
How can they be sure it is really him?
Where was it until now?
thirty years ago they used to say that Rav Akiva Eiger must still be secretly alive and writing seform somewhere because they were finding so many kesovim from him (back then)
Today it seems like some videographer and photographer from from over eighty years ago is still alive and releasing his work, a few days ago a new color video of Camp Mesivta in 1942 came out too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpBhg209Do8
It is not clear if that is the Chofetz Chaim in the photo.
The photo is still being examined and analyzed, the identification is a matter of dispute and disagreement at this time.
seems fake,no?
The Chofetz Chaim portrait typically used by organizations is really of someone else.
the problem with believing the daughter of the chofetz chaim is she wouldn’t have recognized what her father looked like as a younger man. she was from a second marriage and would have known the Chofetz chaim as a older man.
I think it must be when the Chofetz C. Visited NYC a hundred years ago. Maybe 105 years ago approx. The table set up looks like the melva malkai in his honour. Well attended by all of the bnai hayeshiva, ny Baltimore and Chicago.
How do we know it’s really him?
Who says that it is the Chofetz Chaim? That cap was common then and perhaps its an old man with a white beard as were thousands of such men
Note :
The Chofetz Chaim ZT”L , would not sit at at table with his arms on the table = SHULCHON.
Note:
Chofetz Chaim ZT”L , would not sit at a dining table with his arms on the table = SHULCHON.
Note:
The Chofetz Chaim ZT”l , would not sit at a dining table , with his arms on the table = SHULCHON.