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Leaders of the People: Historic Letter from the Gaon Rabbi Elazar Menachem Shach to the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Feinstein; Harsh Expressions - Letter with important content from the leader of the Torah world, the gaon Rabbi Elazar Menachem Mann Shach, to the leader of the entire Diaspora, the gaon Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, Kiryat HaYeshivah, Bnei Brak, 1982. Background to the letter: in the 1970s, Teddy Kollek, then mayor of Jerusalem, initiated a plan to establish a stadium on Reches Shuafat in Jerusalem. Gedolei hador opposed this plan. After the stadium was cancelled, the Chareidi neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, populated by thousands of families, Talmudei Torah, yeshivahs and synagogues, was established instead. (Refer to: Jerusalem Film Archive - Construction Plan for the Shuafat Stadium ; Wikipedia , in the entry on Ramat Shlomo ). In the letter, the gaon Rabbi Elazar Menachem Shach informs the gaon Rabbi Moshe Feinstein about the success of the mission: ” Baruch Hashem , who has not stopped the redeemer who sits on high with his hand spread over Jerusalem ... and [your] true and pure words hit their target and made an impression.”  The gaon Rabbi Elazar Menachem Shach uses sharp expressions in this letter describing Teddy Kollek: ”' That   man ' who has come to contaminate sacred land in Tziyon to make it into a stadium and an amphitheater in which all sorts of forest animals will swarm [Rabbi Shach's expression for those who come for entertainment] and cause the masses to sin.” Decades later, the farsightedness of the Torah leaders is clear. In an interview with the Ynet  web site on May 24th, 2006, architect David Kroyanker revealed that establishing a sport center was for the express purpose of pushing the Chareidi population away from northern Jerusalem: ”The former mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek, who was familiar with the city better than anyone else, knew already in the early '80s that there was a problem that needed solving. This is how the idea was born to build a sports center in Reches Shuafat. Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for brief biographies of Rabbi Elazar Menachem Shach  and Rabbi Moshe Feinstein . [1] leaf official stationery, approximately 21x28 cm. Typewritten, with a handwritten signature, a long blessing, and corrections [a total of about 30 handwritten words]. Including the original envelope. Very fine condition.