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Modaah Rabba – Jerusalem 1873 – Aspersions Against Divorces
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Printed letter, Modaah Rabba, "Important notice – from the rabbis and Ashkenazic Beit Din Tzedek…". Jerusalem: [Yisrael Dov Frumkin], 21st Cheshvan 1873.
Protest and polemics by the "Beit Din Tzedek of the Ashkenazic communities", opposing the Beit Din of R. Shmuel Salant and R. Meir Auerbach who had published a poster declaring divorce procedures of their Beit Din to be invalid. In response, the present poster responds with a call to stay away from the rulings and divorce documents of R. Shmuel Salant.
The present poster was published during the controversy between Yisrael Dov Frumkin, editor of HaChavatzelet, on one side, and R. Shmuel Salant and R. Meir Auerbach on the other (following a dispute over the courtyard of the Hurva synagogue and the Etz Chaim yeshiva).
Yisrael Dov Frumkin, editor of HaChavatzelet and a member of the Chassidic community in Jerusalem, was part of the opposition to the Perushim kollel Knesset Yisrael, which had established a separate organization Tiferet Yerushalayim, which was joined by the Rabbi of Radishkovitz, formerly an administrator of the Perushim kollel. Frumkin's opposition to the Perushim rabbis of Jerusalem, published in his newspaper and other forums, attacking the Halukka and community administration, led the rabbis of Jerusalem to fight back and ban his newspaper.
See Lot Nos. 168 and 169.
[1] leaf. Approx. 24 cm. Good condition. Marginal tears. Pencil inscriptions.
Rare.
Sh. Halevy, no. 214.
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