Letter by the Leaders of the Petach Tikva Chassidic community to the Satmar Rebbe - 1955

Letter by the Leaders of the Petach Tikva Chassidic community to the Satmar Rebbe - 1955
A long letter sent to the US, to the Satmar Rebbe, with many signatures of leaders of the Petach Tikva Chassidic community, headed by that of the Zidichover Rebbe, R. Menashe Yitzchak Meir Eichenstein. With stamps of the Batei Midrash in Petach Tikva: "Divrei Chaim", Sanz Hasidism; "Chug Chatam Sofer Petach Tikva" and the Beit Midrash of the Zidichover Rebbe. Petach Tikva, Adar 1955.
The letter contains details about the difficulties encountered by the Chassidic population of Petach Tikva - a city whose yeshiva heads and community leaders were predominantly Mitnagdim. The writers describe themselves as "Charedim who dwell in Petach Tikva… a few hundred families… who from their youth were educated in Torah and Hasidism… in the ways of the disciples of the holy Ba'al Shem Tov… and we will not deviate even one notch from their path with absolute devotion until the coming of the Messiah, but unfortunately, both the kashrut and the education system are under the supervision of those who oppose Hasidism. All the shochatim and all the mohalim are beardless… Woe to such shame!...". Further in the letter, they request that the Rebbe agree to allow his disciple R. Lipa Shub who at that time managed the Satmar Talmud Torah in Jerusalem, to relocate to Petach Tikva and accept the position of schochet and mohel.
The Zidichover Rebbe, R. Menashe Yitzchak Meir Eichenstein (1894-1971), son of Rebbe Asher Yeshaya of Pruchnik was close to many tsaddikim and was especially beloved by Rebbe Yissachar Dov of Belz. He served as the Zidichover Rebbe in Petroşani (Romania). After the Holocaust, he established his
Beit Midrash in Klausenburg and later moved to Eretz Israel and established a Chassidic center in Petach Tikva. He died without children and in his testament wrote that his nephew Rebbe Yissachar Berish, son of R. Yehoshua Eichenstein should be his successor.
2 leaves, 28.5 cm. Thin paper. Good condition, creases and folds.