Auction 37 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Telegram by US Rabbis Protesting Rabbi Maimon's Degradation of the Honor of the Brisker Rabbi
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A telegram of protest by the US Union of Rabbis to the editor of HaTzofeh newpaper [with copies to the editors of Hamodia and Ma'ariv], against Rabbi Yehuda Leib Fishman-Maimon, for degrading the honor of the Brisker Rabbi, [USA, Iyar 1958]. Hebrew in Latin letters.
"Please publish the following telegram which we have sent to Rabbi Maimon: His coarse and uncouth attack on the Torah leader of our generation the Brisker Rabbi which is full of libels and lies and whose aim is to humiliate the honor of Torah and the honor of the Torah leaders of our generation and to instigate a quarrel between the Chief Rabbis and the Brisker Rabbi, shocked the entire Torah world and Charedi population. We express the Torah opinion that the ruling for a person who wrote the attack on the Brisker Rabbi is as stated explicitly in the Rambam Talmud Torah, Chapter 6… and in the Tur Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah Siman 243 [The laws of honoring a Torah scholar]… We call upon him to retract his words and to repent. Agudat HaRabanim".
The telegram was signed by the president of Agudat Rabanim [Union of Rabbis], Rabbi Eliezer Silver and by Rabbi Pinchas Teitz, Rabbi David Lifshitz and Rabbi Meir Cohen.
In the month of Iyar 1958, the Ma'ariv newspaper published a letter which Rabbi Maimon sent to the US Union of Rabbis in honor of the inauguration of the Heichal Shlomo building in Jerusalem [the former premises of the Chief Rabbinate and the Great Rabbinical Beit Din. The plan of the founders of Heichal Shlomo was to form a Global Spiritual Center. This invoked a vigorous protest by the Brisker Rabbi who feared the plan to form a new Sanhedrin in our generation]. In his letter, Rabbi Maimon belittled the Brisker Rabbi and used degrading language in a coarse and outspoken manner. The words of Rabbi Maimon caused a great upheaval and this telegram of protest followed. [Actually, the Brisker Rabbi requested that no protest be expressed because of the insult to his honor and even delayed the publication of this letter in the Hamodia newspaper. See Attached material].
18 cm. Good condition.
"Please publish the following telegram which we have sent to Rabbi Maimon: His coarse and uncouth attack on the Torah leader of our generation the Brisker Rabbi which is full of libels and lies and whose aim is to humiliate the honor of Torah and the honor of the Torah leaders of our generation and to instigate a quarrel between the Chief Rabbis and the Brisker Rabbi, shocked the entire Torah world and Charedi population. We express the Torah opinion that the ruling for a person who wrote the attack on the Brisker Rabbi is as stated explicitly in the Rambam Talmud Torah, Chapter 6… and in the Tur Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah Siman 243 [The laws of honoring a Torah scholar]… We call upon him to retract his words and to repent. Agudat HaRabanim".
The telegram was signed by the president of Agudat Rabanim [Union of Rabbis], Rabbi Eliezer Silver and by Rabbi Pinchas Teitz, Rabbi David Lifshitz and Rabbi Meir Cohen.
In the month of Iyar 1958, the Ma'ariv newspaper published a letter which Rabbi Maimon sent to the US Union of Rabbis in honor of the inauguration of the Heichal Shlomo building in Jerusalem [the former premises of the Chief Rabbinate and the Great Rabbinical Beit Din. The plan of the founders of Heichal Shlomo was to form a Global Spiritual Center. This invoked a vigorous protest by the Brisker Rabbi who feared the plan to form a new Sanhedrin in our generation]. In his letter, Rabbi Maimon belittled the Brisker Rabbi and used degrading language in a coarse and outspoken manner. The words of Rabbi Maimon caused a great upheaval and this telegram of protest followed. [Actually, the Brisker Rabbi requested that no protest be expressed because of the insult to his honor and even delayed the publication of this letter in the Hamodia newspaper. See Attached material].
18 cm. Good condition.
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