Lot 328
Protest Against Community Split in Klausenburg, 1922
Rabbinical protest of "Warsaw Va'ad HaRabbanim", against the splitting of the Orthodox community in Klausenburg. [Appendix to newspaper Folks Zeitung, Bratislava (Pressburg), Av 1922. Hebrew and German.
"A small booklet by the name of Mishpat Tzedek has reached our hands. It concerns the controversy between the Orthodox community Sefarad [Chassidim] who have recently split…". From that booklet it seems that the Chassidim split from the main community because their leaders joined the "Zionist cult" and this was protested by the Warsaw rabbis: "…we do not come to justify the Zionist party, to praise or disparage it… and even if in the General Zionist Organization there are many non-religious Jews, there are also many who do not lack fear of Heaven and meticulously fulfill all mitzvot like all charedi Jews. And here rabbis come and remove all Zionists from Klal Yisrael… Who has heard of such a terrible thing?!…". 2 pages, 31 cm. Good-fair condition, minor tears to margins.
