Draft of a report letter to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, from a secret Chabad Rabbis meeting in Israel. (1969).
“… The Rabbis who have signed below have gathered… and have read to me the letter about the danger of defining our time as the beginning of the Redemption. This letter is among the ones which were stolen from me. A letter from Kfar Chabad, which had been going around, was brought to the meeting, during which we’ve discussed whether or not to publish its content to the wide public without mentioning its origin. Everybody at the meeting was in favor of publishing the letter but I disagree, because this may very well bring down the value of Chabad in the eyes of the wide public… that’s why we have decided to submit the question to [your] opinion.”
List of the Rabbis who have signed [and took part in the gathering]: Rabbi Zevin, Garelik, Chen, Yudasin, Slonim, Chenzin, Trebnik, Ashkenazi, Gorodetski, Wilamowski, Pulver”.
Important and interesting document, based on the content, this letter was apparently written by Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin, see the “Igrot Kodesh”, volume 26, letter 9-613. The reply to that letter was not published in the “Igrot Kosdesh” apparently due to the sensitive nature of its subject.
22 cm. Good condition, right margin of the leaf isn’t straight, filing holes.