Kol MeHeichal, announcement from the rabbis of Jerusalem for the upcoming Shemitah year (1888-1889), calling for assistance to the farmers of the Shemitah-observant moshavot. With original stamps of R. Yehoshua Leib (Maharil) Diskin, R. Shmuel Salant and the Beit Din of the Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem. [Jerusalem, 1888].

Call for assistance from Jews of the Diaspora for contributions to the moshavot in Eretz Israel in the shemitah year of 1888-1889. With printed signatures of thirty rabbis of Jerusalem.
Below the call for assistance is a notice from R. Shmuel Salant and R. Yehoshua Leib Diskin disqualifying the Heter Mechirah and forbidding agricultural work by both Jews and non-Jews during the shemitah year, stamped by R. Yehoshua Leib Diskin, R. Shmuel Salant and the Beit Din of the Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem.
In anticipation of the 1889 shemitah year, representatives of the moshavot asked rabbis of Lithuania and Russia for an allowance for agricultural work by sale of the land to a non-Jew. This lit a controversy participated in by leading rabbis of the generation. The Ashkenazi rabbis of Jerusalem, headed by R. Diskin and R. Salant, refused to approve of Heter Mechirah.

[1] leaf. Approx. 25X40 cm. Good-fair condition. Light stains. Folding marks. Tears to fold and center of the leaf, without loss. Open tear in margins of leaf, not affecting text.

Not recorded by Sh. Halevy.

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