(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
AUCTION 61 |
Wednesday, March 12th,
2014 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects
Lot 249
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
New York: 27 Nissan 1924
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
An important letter of communal concern signed by a group of the first Chassidic Rebbes present in the United States. The proposal urges that the Vaad HaRabanim must forcefully insist that all Kashruth supervision be centralized under its own auspices and no individual supervisory authorities be permitted, thus bringing order to the current situation of chaos. If the situation is so corrected then the Agudath Ha’Admorim would be willing to work alongside the Vaad Harabanim.
The Agudath Ha’Admorim was founded in 1924 as an attempt to separate between valid and false claimants to Chassidic spiritual leadership in America. Furthermore, it also served as a counter-weight to the power of both the Va’ad HaRabanim and the older Agudath HaRabanim, both of which were dominated by a non-Chassidic Lithuanian rabbinic leadership.