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Lot : 122

Polemics: Mechitzas in Shul Famous Response from the Admor Rabbi Yoel of

Start price: $40,000
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Est. Price: $80,000 - $100,000
Polemics: Mechitzas in Shul
Famous Response from the Admor Rabbi Yoel of Satmar Railing Against Any Diversions to Traditional Synagogue Partitions (Mechitza)

Long handwritten response from Rabbi Yoel of Satmar strongly prohibiting the institution of changes in mechitzas for the women’s gallery in a synagogue.

Background: In light of the spiritual decline of American Jewry, many congregations were becoming lax in their manner of erecting partitions for the women’s gallery. In response to this, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein publicized a long response on the matter, permitting setting the women’s gallery in a balcony, despite the fact that the women could be seen from below. Similarly, he ruled that partitions reaching shoulder-height are halachically sufficient, even though the women could be seen above it.

Rabbi Yoel of Satmar sharply opposed Rabbi Feinstein’s ruling, and wrote this present lengthy kuntress in response.

In this long and detailed response, the Admor asserts that erecting a partition where the women can still be seen is completely forbidden and that there is no heter (leniency) allowing it. He strongly concludes that it is even forbidden to enter a shul where such a partition was erected.

This response was sent to Rabbi Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Deutsch, ab”d of Helmez, author of Taharas Yom Tov.

The entire kuntress is completely handwritten by Rabbi Yoel of Satmar, including his corrections, erasures and additions.

Among his words, Rabbi Yoel of Satmar clearly stipulates his views regarding American minhagim (customs): "It is certain to me that there is no minhag in America, because only something that was established in a place of Torah leaders can be [considered] a minhag… As is known, there was no original settlement of Torah leaders in America, and at first it was all minhagim of the ignorant… For whatever reasons, a few G-d fearing Jews and Torah scholars came to America. It is clear that they are obligated to the customs of their land of origin, and Heaven forbid that they should change…"

21 sides (18 with the response + 3)

דער רבי שרייבט אויף די איינגעפירטע מנהגים אין אמעריקא: "… דאס איז אמאל זיכער אז אין אמעריקא איז נישטא קיין מנהג, ווייל א ‘מנהג’ ווערט נאר אנגערופן עפעס וואס איז געגרינדעט געווארן אין א פלאץ פון גרויסע מענטשן אין תורה מיט יראת שמים, נישט מנהגים פון ליידיגע קעפ, און אין אמעריקא אין אנהייב ווען מ’האט זיך באזעצט דארט איז נישט געווען קיין גרויסע מענטשן ווי באקאנט… און אלעס איז געווען מנהגים פון ליידיגע נאך אין אנפאנג, און דערנאך שפעטער איז עס אלץ מער געווארן איינגעריסן מער און מער, ווייל די פירצות פארמערן זיך כסדר בעוה"ר אין אונזערע דורות יעצט אין די ‘עקבתא דמשיחא’ אין יעדן פלאץ, און זיכער אין אזא לאנד וואס האט נישט געהאט קיינמאל קיין יסוד צו תורה הקדושה, און יעצט נישט לאנג האט דער אייבערשטער וואס פירט אלעס געפירט אז ס’האבן זיך צוזאמגעקליבן אביסל מענטשן יראי שמים און תלמידי חכמים קיין אמעריקא, איז די זאך קלאר אז עס ליגט א חוב אויף זיי צו איינהאלטן די מנהגים פון די לענדער וואס זיי קומען פון דארט, און חלילה צו טוישן.

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