Letter of Polemic and Protest from the Chassidic Beit Din in Jerusalem Regarding the Humiliation of Rabbi Lipman ...

Letter of Polemic and Protest from the Chassidic Beit Din in Jerusalem Regarding the Humiliation of Rabbi Lipman David Shubkes - Signature of Rebbe David Tzvi Shlomo Biderman of Lelov
Letter of protest against a man who humiliated "the great R. Lipman David" [Shubkes, head of the Chassidic Beit Din] "with tremendous audacity and insolence". The letter is signed by R. "Yosef Yehuda ben R. D. Halevi" (Strassburg, the dayan from Kossov); R. "Avraham Eliezer Mintzberg"; R. "Avraham ben R. David Hakohen" (son-in-law of R. Akiva Yosef Shlesinger), and R. "David Tzvi Shlomo Biderman". Jerusalem, 1903.
R. David Tzvi Shlomo Biderman (1844-1918), the Rebbe of Lelov, son of R. Elazer Menachem Mendel (1827-1883), was the leader of the Chassidic community of Jerusalem. He was a prominent Chassid of the Beit Aharon of Karlin. He was known for his great purity and holiness, and was referred to by the Yismach Yisrael of Aleksander a "Sefer Torah". R. Chaim Shmuel of Chęciny stated that for many years R. Biderman was the greatest tzaddik of his times.
14 cm. Good condition. Small tears at the margins. Folding creases.