Auction 85 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Draft of a Proclamation Against Television, Signed by Rabbis – Bnei Brak, Ca. 1969

Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium

Draft of a proclamation against bringing televisions (referred to as an abomination) into Jewish homes, signed by 10 leading rabbis of Bnei Brak. Bnei Brak, [ca. 1969].
Typewritten, with the handwritten signatures of: R. Yaakov Landau, rabbi of Bnei Brak; R. Yechiel Meir Weingort, rabbi of the Gerrer Chassidim; R. Yitzchak Shlomo Ungar, dean of the Chug Chatam Sofer yeshiva; R. Refael Baruch Toledano, rabbi of Meknes; R. Avraham Shlomo Katz of Riskeva, rabbi of the Yitav Lev – Satmar community in Bnei Brak; R. Moshe Blau, rabbi of Pardes Katz; R. Natan Gestetner, rabbi of Shikun Agudath Yisrael; R. David Shemesh, rabbi of the Sephardi community in Pardes Katz; R. Natan Tzvi Friedman, rabbi of Shikun Heh and author of Otzar HaRabbanim; R. Avraham Tzvi Weiss, first rabbi of the Neve Achiezer neighborhood.
With the printed signature of R. Shmuel HaLevi Wosner, rabbi of Zichron Meir.
The rabbis alert to the danger of bringing television into one's home.
[1] leaf. Approx. 28 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, wear and folding marks.


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