Pamphlet Ohev Mishpat “on the fights in Sighet…which has divided the nation in two…the Sefardi community and their brothers have risen to oppose them hatefully…the Orthodox community…with writing from rabbi Feivel HaLevi Av Beit Din of Brodshin, with Ktav Yosher at the end—takanot of the Sefardim.
[2], 16 pages, 104 leaves. Missing the first tile page, the second is present. Stains, moth holes, light tears in the margins of a number of leaves. Good condition.
Background: In Sighet a conflict broke out on the basis of the Haredi community’s division in two—the Adat Sefardim and Kahal Orthodoxim. The conflict involved several rabbis including the Admor Rabbi Baruch Hager of Vizhnitz (the Imrei Baruch), Rabbi Yitzhak Ettinger of Lemberg, the Natziv of Volozhin, and more.
The two communities agreed to undergo mediation and a psak from a beit din led by Rabbi Baruch of Gorlitz (who was then rabbi of Rodnik), the son of the Divrei Haim of Sanz, who published a psak in which he tended to favor the Kahal Orthodoxim. Rabbi Feivel HaLevi, Av Beit Din of Rodshin, published against him a letter in which he justifies the Adat Sefardim. The two sides released books and pamphlets to convince and justify their opinions. This work is a pamphlet published by the Kahal Sefardim.
