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This broadside is an open letter to R. Moshe Blau signed by a committee from Yeshiva Torat Hayyim in Jerusalem. In effect it is a polemic against R. Blau. The committee accuses R. Blau of “betraying the survivors of Haredi Judaism, the sons of the Yeshiva, to the hands of those who seek their souls” …”to tear down the Yeshivot…and to change them into seminaries”… the Committee of Yeshivot was created only to strategize how to expel the students of the Yeshivot and take food out of the mouths of their little ones…is this how you worry about the welfare of Haredi Judaism?...And it is known that all Torah fearing Jews exempted themselves from the Ashkenazi Committee when they saw your approach and your conduct which is against the spirit of Haredi Judaism … therefore we are advising you for your sake ..that if you do not stray from your path…we will be forced to come out against you...to reveal your true face, to remove the mask from the Ashkenazi Committee…and the righteousness of Agudat Yisrael will be publicized….
R. Moshe Blau (1885–1946) was a leader of Agudat Israel and a brother of Amram Blau. Blau, who was born in Jerusalem, directed the Agudat Israel office there from 1924 until his death. He served as a member of the movement's world executive and edited its weekly Kol Yisrael ("Voice of Israel"). From 1933 to 1945 he headed the independent, ultra-Orthodox Edah Haredit (Orthodox community). Despite the community's segregation policy, he cooperated with yishuv leaders in representing Jewish interests in dealings with the Mandate government. Blau represented Agudat Israel before various British and international commissions which dealt with the Palestine problem. In 1946, while on a rescue mission to Jewish survivors of the war, Blau fell ill and died in Messina. He was taken to Jerusalem for burial. He wrote Ammuda di-Nehora ("Column of Light," 1932), a biography of Rabbi Y. H. Sonnenfeld, and Al Homotayikh Yerushalayim ("Upon thy Walls, O Jerusalem," 1946), autobiographical notes and memoirs.
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