Auction 4
Lot 036:
Letters by the Most Prominent Rabbis of the Land of Israel (and outside Israel) against the Reform Congress in Braunschweig and an essay by Rabbi Yisrael Moshe Chazan. 2 last pages are missing, binding disconnected, no spine, stains and tears, generally good condition. The Reform Congress met in Braunschweig in Tammuz 1844 (the first of its kind) and declared the editing of “corrections/tikkunim” to halacha and the order of prayer. In response, the heads of the Organization of Clerks and Officers of Amsterdam sent letters to all the great rabbis of the generation at the time, and organized their letters of reply into a book. The emissary of Jerusalem to Europe, Rabbi Yisrael Moshe Chazan (later rabbi in Rome, Corfu, and Alexandria), who was in Amsterdam at the time, wrote this book in which he strongly opposes the Reform movement and criticizes them sharply. The Organization printed Hazan’s book, and as an appendix to the book, he published the letters of responsum of the great rabbis of the generation to him entitled "Torat kana’ut". Among the writers of the letters are: Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, Rabbi Yehuda Assad, Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Teitelbaum—the Heitev Lev, Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer (the Katav Sofer) and more.
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