Important Interesting Collection of Rabbinic Letters on the Topic of Kashrut, Early 20th Century

Important Interesting Collection of Rabbinic Letters on the Topic of Kashrut, Early 20th Century

Interesting collection of [8] letters from various shechitah committees (chief rabbinate and Edah HaChareidit), private ritual slaughterers and more.

* Letter in English from the Edah HaCharedit's Va'ad HaShechitah to London's Jewish Chronicle - criticism of articles that appeared in the newspaper, in which they defame the new ritual slaughter divide. Jerusalem, 1923.

[2] leaves.

* Letter in English from the Edah HaCharedit's Va'ad HaShechitah to the CEO of the Postal Service in Jerusalem, 1925.

[1] leaf.

* Letter from the Va'ad HaShechitah HaAshkenazit Perushim V'Chassidim: "You named my position 'chief rabbi of the Land of Israel, ' and my position is in fact that of Ra'ava"d of Jerusalem." Undeciphered signature.

[1] leaf.

* Letter entirely handwritten by Rabbi Reuven Katz, rabbi of Petach Tikvah - sharp criticism of ritual slaughter in the Land of Israel, especially in Jerusalem. Petach Tikvah, 1932.

[2] pp.

* Letter from the chief rabbis of Tel Aviv, Rabbi Ben Tziyon Chai Uziel and Rabbi Moshe Avigdor Amiel, to the chief rabbinate, "To forbid foreign slaughter."

Tel Aviv, 1938.

[1] leaf,

* Torah thoughts by Rabbi Ya'akov Pinchas Friedman, ritual slaughterer and mohel in Safed. Sermon on the gemara's words: For two and a half years, Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel deliberated whether it would have been better for man to have been created or not. He concludes with a blessing and thanks the rabbi of the city - Rabbi Avraham Leib Silberman, who united the three ritual slaughterers in the city, and strengthened them spiritually and materially.

[1] leaf

* Letter from Professor David Yellin to the chief rabbinate's shechitah administration in the city, with respect to an internal dispute between the ritual slaughterers. 1941.

[1] leaf

* List of letters sent on behalf of the Va'ad HaIr HaAshkenazi to the offices of the British Mandate, and more.

[3] leaves.

Various sizes and conditions.