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LOT 164:
Sharp Historic Polemic Letter Handwritten by the "Ma'aseh L'Melech" to the Av Beit Din of Paks
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Sharp Historic Polemic Letter Handwritten by the "Ma'aseh L'Melech" to the Av Beit Din of Paks
Sharp kol koreh opposing the Zionist movement with a note handwritten and signed in the margins by the gaon and tzaddik Rabbi Yeshayahu Zilberstein, av beit din of Waitzen, author of Ma'asei Melech, one of the leading rabbis of Hungary. In this letter, he requests that the gaon and tzaddik Rabbi Yosef Leib Sofer, av beit din of Paks, add his signature to the 'kol koreh.' Waitzen, 1904.
Printed leaf with a sharp kol koreh against the Zionist movement that started spreading its claws in Hungary in 1904 to gather people from among the chareidim through the Mizrachi movement. The Mizrachi movement arranged a conference in Pressburg to the dismay of the local rabbi, the author of Shevet Sofer. This kol koreh was written and printed against this backdrop by the geonim and tzaddikim Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, av beit din of Chust, author of Arugat HaBosem, and Rabbi Shmuel Rosenberg, av beit din of Unsdorf.
The gaon and tzaddik Rabbi Yeshayahu Zilberstein wanted to get as many leading Hungarian rabbis as possible to sign on this proclamation. He sent the text to leading rabbis with the handwritten request to add their signature to the proclamation. The proclamation, with the dozens of signatures obtained by the gaon Rabbi Yosef Zilberstein, is printed in the anthology Tel Talpiot.
This is the original printed proclamation sent by the gaon Rabbi Yosef Zilberstein to the gaon and tzaddik Rabbi Yosef Leib Sofer, av beit din of Paks, with the handwritten request to add his signature to the proclamation: "To my friend, the rabbi, the gaon, the famous sharp and expert ... av beit din of Paks, please sign [your] pure name and return this to me by mail, as the issue is urgent. Sincerely, your friend, Yeshayah Zilberstein." The proclamation was printed and photographed in the book Yalkut Sofer HaChadash II (New York, 1914), p. 855.
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for brief biographies of the gaon Rabbi Yeshayah Silverstein and of the addressee, Rabbi Yosef Leib Sofer.
[1] leaf. 16 cm.
Fine condition. Stains and wear. Fold marks.
