Auction 050 Part 1 Satmar: Rebbes and Rabbis of Satmar-Sighet, Hungary and Transylvania
Collection of Posters and Notices – Against Participating in Elections and Against Zionism – Signed by Rebbe Yoel of Satmar and the Rabbis of Edah HaCharedit and Neturei Karta
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Large collection of 22 large posters, announcements, notices and leaflets – against participating in the elections, and against the State of Israel and Zionism, with the (printed) signatures of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar and the important rebbes and rabbis of the extreme factions in Jerusalem – the Edah HaCharedit and Neturei Karta. [Israel and United States, ca. first half of the 20th century.]
The vast majority of the collection deals with the prohibition to vote and participate in the elections to the Knesset; another part deals with general opposition to the State of Israel and Zionism: the prohibition to accept funding from the state, the prohibition to participate in celebrations and parades for Israeli Independence Day, conscription and national service for girls, the prohibition to visit the Western Wall and holy places, and more.
Titles: "The Torah's view"; "Severe warning"; "Halachic ruling"; "Behold, Your enemies will perish"; "What does the posek of the generation say?"; "Words of the living God"; "The national Agudah committee – why?"; and more.
One of the posters is a "new year message" from Rebbe Yoel of Satmar after Israel's victory in the Six Day War, Iyar 1967, who writes: "We have gone through a difficult year, a year of tests and trials". He calls for perseverance not to fall in the "Zionist trap" – "and may we succeed in God's will to continue the holy Torah's way… and not, God forbid, turn a hairsbreadth from [our rabbis'] ways". The Rebbe gives a blessing for Ketivah VaChatimah Tovah and for a speedy salvation. Jerusalem, Elul 1967.
The posters and notices bear the (printed) signature of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar and the Berach Moshe Rebbe of Satmar. Some of the posters are signed by the Central Rabbinical Congress in the United States and the rabbis and dayanim of the Edah HaCharedit in Jerusalem: R. David HaLevi Jungreis, R. Yitzchak Yaakov Weiss, R. Moshe Aryeh Freund, R. Yisrael Moshe Dushinsky, R. Eliyahu Zlotnik, R. Pinchas Epstein, R. Yisrael Yitzchak HaLevi Reisman, R. Levi Yitzchak Grünwald Av Beit Din of Tzelem (Deutschkreutz), R. Sadqa Hussein, R. Yaakov Mutzafi, and more.
22 items. Varying size and condition.
Posters and Notices – Satmar Chassidut in the United States and Eretz Israel
Posters and Notices – Satmar Chassidut in the United States and Eretz Israel