"Letters of halachic decisions… from… the famous protectors of our generation against the troublemaking party… destroyers of the faith, who deceitfully left the holy Orthodox community in Munkacs… published by the Orthodox Beit Din and leaders of this community".

Published in the wake of the great dispute in Munkacs between the Rabbi of the city, Rebbe Chaim Elazar Shapiro, author of Minchat Elazar, and Rebbe Yissachar Dov Rokeach of Belz, who fled his city during World War I and settled for some years in Munkacs. The Belz Chassidim in Munkacs founded an independent community called Adat Yere'im, and in order to achieve official recognition, registered it as a Neolog community. They appointed as their leader the dayan R. Shlomo Grünfeld, brother of R. Shimon (Maharshag) of Bűdszentmihály, and appointed their own shochatim. In consequence, the Minchat Elazar of Munkacs laid a ban against the new community and its shochatim. Both sides printed polemical works – Belz Chassidim published Sefer HaEdot VeHaMishpatim, Kuntres Kol MeHeichal Hashem, and more. Munkacs Chassidim in turn published Kuntres Da Mah SheTashiv and the present sharp polemical work – Kitvei Kodesh – Milchemet Mitzvah HeChadash, laying grave accusations against Belz Chassidim and including over a hundred letters of Rebbes and other rabbis supporting the Minchat Elazar of Munkacs.

Among the authors: the Levushei Mordechai of Mád; R. Shimon Sofer, Av Beit Din of Erlau (Eger); R. Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich, Av Beit Din of Șimleu Silvaniei; R. Yosef Elimelech Kahana, Av Beit Din of Tzelem (Deutschkreutz); R. Shalom Sofer, Av Beit Din of Brezno; R. Moses Chaim Litch-Rosenbaum, Av Beit Din of Kleinwardein (Kisvárda); Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Freund, Av Beit Din of Interdam (Lușca) and Năsăud; R. Yoel Ze'ev Wolf Glattstein, Av Beit Din of Helmetz (Kráľovský Chlmec); Rebbe Chanah Halberstam of Kołaczyce; R. Yehoshua Buxbaum, Av Beit Din of Galanta; R. Menachem Mendel Tennenbaum, Av Beit Din of Tarnów; R. David HaLevi Horowitz, Av Beit Din of Stanislav (Ivano-Frankivsk); R. Yehoshua Falk Jungreis, Av Beit Din of Santov (Abaújszántó); R. Shimon Sofer, Av Beit Din of Páks; R. David Dov Berish Meisels, Av Beit Din of Ujhel (Sátoraljaújhely); Rebbe Yechezkel Panet, Av Beit Din of Deyzh (Dej); R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld; R. Yeshayahu Silberstein, Av Beit Din of Weitzen (Vác); R. Shlomo Eliezer Alfandari (the Saba Kadisha, the Hakham Bashi of Damascus and later of Safed); and many others.

[8] leaves, [1], 2-120 pages. 19.5 cm. Good condition. Stains, creases and minor marginal tears to some leaves (mostly last leaf). Inscriptions and stamps. Marginal trimming affecting headings of some leaves. New leather binding.