Auction 96 FINE JUDAICA: PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, RABBINIC LETTERS, CEREMONIAL & GRAPHIC ART
By Kestenbaum & Company
Feb 9, 2022
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LOT 44:

(JERUSALEM).
Call for Torah Assembly. Typed Letter Signed, written in Hebrew by twenty leading rabbis of ...

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(JERUSALEM).
Call for Torah Assembly. Typed Letter Signed, written in Hebrew by twenty leading rabbis of Jerusalem (listed below).



Calling for an Asifa (spiritual gathering) of teachers, activists, and concerned individuals to be held at the Werner Beis-Medrash.
One page. Folds, small central tear. 4to.
Jerusalem: 25th Tamuz 1943


The purpose of the gathering is “Hisorerus, ” to arouse a response to what was perceived to be a decaying spiritual environment.

The letter is signed in autograph by twenty Torah scholars of Jerusalem, many of whom would emerge as leaders of the Yerushalmi community, especially RABBI YOSEF SHALOM ELYASHIV (1910-2012). The primary signatories are RABBI YISRAEL YITZCHAK REISMAN (1889-1969) and RABBI MOSHE YAIR WEINSTOCK (1900-82).


Other signatories include rabbis:

MORDECHAI SLONIM,

YA’AKOV KATZENELLENBOGEN,

AVRAHAM HALEVI HOROWITZ,

YA’AKOV MEIR SCHECHTER,

SHLOMO SOBEL,

AHARON KATZENELLENBOGEN,

SHALOM SCHWADRON,

ELIYAHU ZLOTNICK,

ZALMAN BRIZEL,

ALTER JABROV,

TZVI MICHEL HELLER,

AVRAHAM HAKOHEN ROTH,

SHALOM EISEN,

BARUCH WEINSTOCK,

YESHAYAH STEINBERGER 

YOSEF BINYAMIN RUBIN.


The Werner Synagogue was named after Rabbi Simcha Bunim Werner (1867-1934), who established the Batei Werner section of Meah Shearim, Jerusalem.


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