Baruch Matir Asurim, booklet published by the Orthodox community of Carei. Seini (Satmar province): Yaakov Wieder, 1935.

Polemical booklet, including letters of the great Rabbis of the generation supporting R. Avraham Abish Horowitz's appointment as Rabbi and Av Beit Din of the Orthodox community in Carei, against his opponents.

Printed during the great dispute on the choice of a new Rabbi for the Orthodox community of Carei, after Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum, Av Beit Din of Carei, left to serve as Rabbi in Satmar. The great majority of the Carei community chose R. Avraham Abish (Abishel) Horowitz, son-in-law of the Rebbe of Spinka, the Chakal Yitzchak. Satmar Chassidim in the city didn't accept R. Abishel's appointment, and after their view was not accepted, they founded a small, separate community – the "Sephardic community", appointing R. Shmuel Gross of Berbești as their rabbi (cousin of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum).

In the introduction to the present booklet, R. Abishel's supporters relate the dispute over his appointment as Rabbi, and cite R. Shimon Sofer, Av Beit Din of Erlau (Eger), and the Levushei Mordechai of Mád. They go on to bring letters of assent from Hungarian Rebbes and other rabbis: the Minchat Elazar of Munkacs; R. Chaim Tzvi Ehrenreich, Av Beit Din of Mád; R. Asher Anshel Jungreis, Av Beit Din of Gyöngyös; R. Abishel's father-in-law, the Chakal Yitzchak, Rebbe of Spinka; his Mechutan R. David Dov Meisels, Av Beit Din of Ujhel (Sátoraljaújhely); his brother-in-law, Rebbe Yechezkel Halstock, Av Beit Din of Ostrowiec; R. Chaim Mordechai Yaakov Gottlieb, Av Beit Din of Miskolc; R. Menachem Brody, Av Beit Din of Kaliv (Nagykálló); R. Abishel's brother-in-law, R. Naftali Tzvi Weiss of Bilky (son of the Chakal Yitzchak of Spinka); R. Yechiel Baum, Av Beit Din of Guta (Kolárovo); R. Yitzchak Eizik Adler, Av Beit Din of Seredneye; R. Abishel's nephew, R. Menachem Mendel son of Asher Lemil Horowitz, Av Beit Din of Sędziszów.

R. Avraham Abish (Abishel) Horowitz, Av Beit Din of Carei (1897-1944, perished in the Holocaust), son of Rebbe Naftali Horowitz of Melitz (1845-1915) and son-in-law of the Chakal Yitzchak of Spinka. During World War I, he served in his father-in-law's position as Av Beit Din of Spinka. In 1934 he was appointed rabbi of Carei in 1934, a position previously held by Rebbe Yoel of Satmar. The Satmar Chassidim did not accept his authority, and appointed their own rabbi, R. Shmuel Gross of Berbești (grandson of Rebbe Yisrael Yaakov Yukel Teitelbaum of Volove). The Orthodox community was thus split into two factions. R. Abishel founded a large yeshiva, Beit Avraham, numbering about a hundred students, most from the Maramureș region. His son is R. Shmuel Tzvi Horowitz – Rebbe Hershel Spinker, the Spinka Rebbe of the United States (1921-1997), and his son-in-law is Rebbe Yaakov Yosef Weiss (1916-1988), the Spinka Rebbe of Bnei Brak.

[3], 3-16 pages. 23.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear. Creases and minor tears. Detached leaves. New binding.