"It causes troubles and punishment in the entire world." Draft of a Letter Opposing Television - Signed ...

"It causes troubles and punishment in the entire world." Draft of a Letter Opposing Television - Signed by the Leaders of the Badatz of Jerusalem

Sharp letter banning television device and anyone who watches it. Printed by stencil as a draft for a soon-to-be-printed poster. With signatures of the leaders of the Badatz. Handwritten revisions. 

"We were shocked to hear that there was a breach in the vineyard of the Jewish nation and that the impurity of the television has spread and it takes many victims every day, and this is a reason for troubles and punishments throughout the entire world. We have no choice but to announce publicly, that the powerful ban made on this despicable thing by our great leaders of the Badatz stands in place in all its strength, and their words are burning coals, and no person has the power to move it ... And it is absolutely prohibited to look at this abhorrent thing that triggers a spiritual Holocaust on all its viewers."

The margins feature the signatures of the rabbis of the Badatz of Jerusalem - Rabbi Yisrael Yaakov Fisher, Rabbi Yaakov RAV"D, Rabbi Moshe Freund, Rabbi Yisrael Dushinsky, and Rabbi Binyomin Rabinowitz. The bottom left has the words: "location of the stamp of the Badatz," marking the place where the Badatz stamp would appear on the printed poster.

Size: 17x20 cm. Fold marks. Creases. Moderate-fine condition.