Draft of a Proclamation Signed by the Rebbes and Rabbis of Bnei Brak - Call to Protest Shabbat Desecration in ...

Draft of a Proclamation Signed by the Rebbes and Rabbis of Bnei Brak - Call to Protest Shabbat Desecration in Petach Tikva - Iyar 1986
Draft of a proclamation signed by thirteen rebbes and rabbis. Bnei Brak, Iyar 1986.
Typewritten, with handwritten corrections and with the signatures of rebbes and rabbis.
Call for a demonstration and mass Shabbat prayers on the streets, in protest of the Shabbat desecration taking place in nearby cities. In those days, demonstrations were held every Shabbat in Petach Tikva in objection to the Hechal cinema being open on Shabbat. In this proclamation, the rabbis of Bnei Brak call to take part in the demonstrations against the terrible Shabbat desecration endangering the spiritual survival of the country.
Signed by: R. Shmuel HaLevi Wosner, rabbi of Zichron Meir; Rebbe Moshe Yehoshua Hager, the Yeshuot Moshe of Vizhnitz; R. Moshe Yehuda Leib Landau, rabbi of Bnei Brak; R. Yitzchak Shlomo Unger, dean of the Chug Chatam Sofer yeshiva; R. Nissim Karelitz, head of the Bnei Brak Beit Din; Rebbe Yaakov Yissachar Rosenbaum of Nadvorna; Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Twersky of Machnovka; Rebbe Avraham Landau of Strikov; Rebbe Meshulam Zusia Twersky of Chernobyl; Rebbe Avraham Menachem Danziger of Alexander; R. Shmuel Ze'ev HaLevi Roth, head of the Belz Machzikei HaDat Beit Din); R. Shimon Badani; Rebbe Avraham Eger of Lublin.
[1] leaf. 27.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, creases and folding marks.