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Polemic: Split of Hungarian Communities Important Letter from the Atzei Chaim of Sighet

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Polemic: Split of Hungarian Communities

Important Letter from the Atzei Chaim of Sighet 1925

Long letter from Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Teitlebaum, Av Beis Din of Sighet, addressed to Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, Av Beis Din of Chust.

As Reform began spreading throughout Hungary, the various Jewish communities split into three categories: the Neologs, the Orthodox and the Status Quo – those who wouldn’t join either faction.

In this letter, the Atzei Chaim protests that the community of Apsha were not permitted to elect a member of their community as shochet u’bodek.

Dated Sighet, 1925,
the last nine lines are handwritten and signed in the very handwriting of the Atzei Chaim.

Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Teitlebaum (1879 – 1926), known as the Atzei Chaim, was the son of the Kedushas Yom Tov, son of the Yetev Lev, son-in-law of Rabbi Shalom Eliezer Halberstam of Ratzfert, son of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz. At the young age of twenty-four, Rabbi Chaim Tzvi was appointed Admor, leading thousands of followers.

Official stationary | 23 x 15 cm | Water mark on left side affecting text | New leather case

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