Bidspirit auction | Mashmia Shalom – Jerusalem, 1871

Mashmia Shalom – Jerusalem, 1871 – Letters of the Imrei Binah and Officials of the Kollels of Jerusalem, Safed and Tiberias – Split of Kollel Chabad from the Kollels of the Four Holy Cities - Mashmia Shalom – Emet MeEretz Titzmach, printed poster with a letter of kollel officials ”in all the holy cities of Jerusalem, Safed and Tiberias”, and letter of R. Meir Auerbach, author of Imrei Binah. [Jerusalem, ca. 1871]. At the edge of the letter of the kollel officials is a rare stamp mentioning only three of the four holy cities: ”Stamp of the Kollel of the Ashkenazim, Perushim and Chassidim residing in the lands of life, the holy cities Jerusalem, Safed and Tiberias”. At the edge of the letter of the Imrei Binah appears his stamp: ”…head of the Ashkenazic kollels in Jerusalem”. Polemical poster against the Kollel Chabad in Hebron, which sent its own separate emissary to collect funds in Russia, in contravention of an 1868 agreement of the kollels to collect funds jointly in Siberia and inner Russia and dispense them to each kollel proportionately to its members. According to the letter, some people from Chabad had the residents of Hebron send an independent emissary to Siberia and Moscow, Yonah of Hebron [probably R. Yonah Ze'ev Wolf Mendelssohn (1826-1887), a grandson of the Maharil of Yanovitch, brother of the Baal HaTanya, traveled as emissary for the Sephardic and Ashkenazic kollels of Hebron to the United States (Chavatzelet, 11th Cheshvan 1879)]. The letter goes on to state that they would send their own representative, emissary R. Yitzchak Horowitz, son-in-law of R. Getzel Rabbi of Kelm, and call for aid to the thousands of poor of Eretz Israel of all the Ashkenazic communities. The letter is signed (in print) by ten rabbis and officials – R. Avraham Eisenstein [of Drohiczyn (1800-1886), dayan and head of the Vaad HaKlali], R. Yaakov Yehudah Löwy [head of the Jerusalem Beit Din (1813-1889), immigrated to Jerusalem along with his two brothers, R. Asher Lemel Rabbi of Galiny and R. Nachum Rabbi of Szadek], R. Eliyahu Sarason [1800-1878, author of Ugat Eliyahu], R. Eizik Wender, R. Meir son of R. Asher of Anykščiai, R. Nisan Bak [printer of Jerusalem, son of R. Yisrael Bak], R. Yitzchak Tzvi HaLevi [official of Kollel Suvalk, son-in-law of R. Yitzchak Eizik Chaver], R. Eliezer Kav VeNaki of Grodno and R. Ze'ev HaKohen of Pinsk [official of Volhynia Kollel, a Chassid of Karlin]. R. Meir Auerbach (1815-1878) was Rabbi of Kalisz, and one of the prominent rabbis of his time. He was the son of R. Yitzchak Eizik Auerbach, Rabbi of Lontshitz (Łęczyca), author of the Divrei Chaim, and grandson of Rabbi Chaim Auerbach, Rabbi of Lontshitz, author of Divrei Mishpat. In 1859 he immigrated to Eretz Israel, and was the first officially appointed chief rabbi of the Ashkenazi community. Aside from his renowned knowledge of Torah and halachah, he was also a great kabbalist and studied in the Beit El yeshiva. His Imrei Binah is a classic exegesis of profound halachic topics. [1] leaf. Approx. 37 cm. Fair condition. Stains and much wear. Open tears (mainly to margins), slightly affecting text, including text of stamp of the Imrei Binah. Rare. To the best of our knowledge and research, the present poster is not bibliographically documented. It is not recorded by Sh. Halevy, the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, the NLI or the Chabad-Lubavitch library in New York.