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LOT 29:
Important Letter from Rabbi Yonatan Binyamin HaLevi Ish Horowitz to Rabbi Aharon of Belz. Jerusalem, 1928
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Important Letter from Rabbi Yonatan Binyamin HaLevi Ish Horowitz to Rabbi Aharon of Belz. Jerusalem, 1928
Background: After WWI, the Admo"r of Belz was exiled from Belz to Munkacs, where a dispute eventually broke out between the followers of Munkacs and those of Belz, for a period of time. After the Admo"r had already left Munkacs and returned to Belz, following the huge dispute, the Belz Chassidim established their own community in Munkacs and called it "The Neologs" because Hungarian law required that a community be listed as either Orthodox or Neolog, and therefore the new community was established with the odd name "Machzikei HaDat HaNeologit Chassidei Belz." This caused a great stir among rabbinic leaders, so Rabbi Yonatan Binyamin HaLevi Ish Horowitz sent a letter to the Admo"r with the goal of requiring his Chassidim to backtrack.
At the beginning of his letter, Rabbi Horowitz recalls how he helped the Admo"r's father when he was in Munkacs (his father had fled there during WWI), "I have never boasted about this and told others, yet my soul rejoices each time I recall that I was privileged from Heaven to be the agent of salvation for the lofty tzaddik, [your] father, ztz"l." He later mentions all the rabbinic leaders of the era, including the Admo"r of Belz, who dedicated their strength to fight Reform and the various religious revisionists. Later on, he pleads with the Admo"r in the name of Jerusalem's rabbis that he decree that followers of Belz who have remained in Munkacs separate from Neologs, and concludes with a request that the Admo"r forgive him if he is mistaken.
4 pp, 29 cm.
Moderate-fine condition. Fold marks and aging stains, minimal tears.
