Dim'at HaAshukim - Book about the Controversy at the Etz Chaim Yeshivah. Jerusalem, 1864

Dim'at HaAshukim - Book about the Controversy at the Etz Chaim Yeshivah. Jerusalem, 1864

Dim'at HaAshukim - book about the controversy about the ownership of the Etz Chaim Yeshivah, between Kollel Warsaw and the rabbis of Jerusalem, 1864.

We will briefly note the background to the dispute surrounding the oldest Chareidi institution in Jerusalem, and apparently in all of the Land of Israel, as written in the gaon Rabbi Rephael Katzenelbogen's book, Be'er Re'i - Toldot HaChinuch HaMekori B'Meshech HaDorot (chapter 38): Rabbi Shaul Binyamin HaKohen, a rabbi in Radishkowitz, ascended to Jerusalem in 1857. When he arrived, he gathered groups of young men and began to study with them at 'Churvat Rebbi Yehudah HeChassid.' Rabbi Shaul Binyamin soon became one of the administrators of the Churvah, and one of the gabbais at the Etz Chaim yeshivah. He was also appointed an emissary and raised a lot of funds for the institutions. At the same time, he established the study at Etz Chaim according to class divisions and the like, matters that were not done until that point, and considered an "innovation" and change from the tradition. Rabbi Shaul Binyamin also registered the yeshivah's property under his own name, which aroused the suspicions of the veteran administrators and triggered the outbreak of the fierce dispute. This dispute was also carried out on the pages of the newspapers, and tradition relates that booklets were published for and against, signed by rabbinic leaders of Jerusalem. The rabbis of Jerusalem published their opinion in the Emet U'Mishpat  booklet (Jerusalem, 1863), and the side opposing published this booklet, "Dim'at HaAshukim, in response, about the matter of the booklet printed without truth and justice [emet u'mishpat] ..." (For more about this affair, refer to Zichron L'Chovavim HaRishonim, 13, 'HeChatzer M'Radishkowitz).

15 leaf. 20 cm.

Very fine condition. Minimal aging stains. Simple binding.