Auction 54 Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Feb 7, 2017 (Your local time)
Israel
 8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 253:

Letter by the Badatz of the Eda HaCharedit - Against the Ma'arava Institute

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Letter by the rabbis of the Badatz of the Eda HaCharedit, against the Ma'arava Institute, signed by the Ga'avad R. Yitzchak Ya'akov Weiss, the Ra'avad R. Moshe Aryeh Freund, R. Yisrael Moshe Dushinsky, R. Yisrael Ya'akov Fisher, R. Binyamin Rabinowitz and R. Avraham David Horowitz. Jerusalem, Cheshvan 1983.
A significant polemic arose within the Charedi circles, surrounding the opening of the Ma'arava institute founded for Charedi youth from families who immigrated to Israel from Anglo-Saxon countries. The institute offered a secular education alongside the kodesh studies, a "yeshiva high-school" for Charedim. The eldest of the yeshiva heads, R. E. M. Schach banned the school and the "breach" of the walls of Torah education which do not include secular studies in their curriculum. He published a letter with his reservations about the institute and its deviation from the tradition of the "holy yeshivot" in Eretz Israel which dedicate full time to Torah study alone. This is another letter from that era, signed by the rabbis of the Badatz of the Eda HaCharedit, who also opposed the education offered at that institute.
Official stationery, 27 cm. Typewritten, signed by the dayanim. Fair-poor condition, fungus and wear damages, restored with paper filling. Mildew and fungus stains.

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