Regulations for the Diskin Orphanage, signed by Gdoley HaDor Rabbi Yitzchak Yeruham Diskin, and Rabbi Yosef Chaim ...

Regulations for the Diskin Orphanage, signed by Gdoley HaDor Rabbi Yitzchak Yeruham Diskin, and Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld - 1923

"Since it is more than forty years that the famous Rabbi, Gaon Yisrael R. Moshe Yehoshua Yehuda Leib Diskin zt'l devoted all his energy to the benefit of educating the orphans and established for this purpose and established for this purpose an institution of an orphanage, educating the orphans according to the spirit of Torah and Yirah, And since his son The Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Yeruham Diskin also fills his place in this, and it has been about fifteen years that he has given his all in favor of this matter too ... and since Rabbi Yitzchak Yeruham Diskin  has already dedicated the great building that is already going and built on the hill in front of the village of Lifta for this purpose, for this reason the Signed below decided to establish a society of kindness which will ensure the execution of this purpose always without interruption ... ". Diskin Orphanage Regulations as worded and updated on Av 19, 1923 "Here the Holy City of Jerusalem" - signed by the signatures of Rabbi Yitzchak Yeruham Diskin, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Rabbi Avraham Moshe Katzenelbogen, Rabbi Dov Ber Epstein, and Dr. Moshe Wallach. All the signatures were mentioned in the body of the text and were defined As the 'first friends' who are in fact the first guardians of the orphanage building which was located at the time on Neviim Street in Jerusalem.

Within the regulations we find sections that are the cornerstones of the orphanage: "The purpose of the company is to educate orphans to teach them Torah and crafts, to educate and raise them in accordance with the Jewish religious principles and foundations in the orphanage yard now near the Russian compound ...". There are regulations that regulate the property of the orphanage, including Torah scrolls, regulations regarding the selection of members, the permission to introduce changes in the company's regulations according to the opinions of two-thirds of the members present at the meeting, and more. The last section reads: "In accordance with section 6, for the first time, Rabbi Yitzchak Yeruham Diskin was elected chairman for the rest of his life and there is no permission to fire him. As a deputy the genius R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld ... ".

The Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Yeruham Diskin [1839-1925] Gdol HaDor and one of the most important Ashkenazi rabbis of the old settlement in Jerusalem between the years 1908–1925. The only son of the holy genius Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin. After the death of his father, in 1897, the heads of the old settlement in Jerusalem asked him to immigrate to Eretz Israel and head the institutions that his father founded and managed - Diskin Orphanage and Ohel Moshe Yeshiva. However, only a decade later, in Elul 1908, Immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Jerusalem. After the death of Rabbi Shmuel Salant, in 1909, no official rabbi was elected under him, and Rabbi Diskin was considered the senior rabbinical authority of the Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem in his place.

The Genius Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld [1849-1933], the undisputed spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Judaism in the land of Israel. disciple of the "Ktav sofer" at the Pressburg Yeshiva, and of the genius Rabbi Avraham Shag  Kobersdorf Rabbi. Immigrated to Jerusalem in 1873 together with his Rabbi - Rabbi Avraham Shag, and became known as one of the greatest scholars, in righteousness and holiness. A definite disciple of the Mahari'l Diskin. Following the establishment of the Chief Rabbinate's Office and the appointment of Rabbi Kook as Chief Rabbi in 1919-1921, a separate community of the "Haredim Community for Ashkenaz" was established, and Rabbi Yosef Chaim was accepted as the first Rabbi of the "Haredim Community" in the title of "Mara DeArah DeIsrael. "

[3] leaves. 28x22 cm. Typewriter and signature of the genius. Very good condition.