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Lot #    16199
Auction End Date    10/24/2006 1:16:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Call to Prayer by R. Moses Feinstein
Title (Hebrew)    ëéðåñ ìçæ÷ äòãä äçøãéú
Author    [Community - First Ed.] R. Moses Feinst
City    Jerusalem
Publication Date    1980
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. Small poster on green paper, 344:246 mm., light age staining, some creasing.
          
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Description		    R. Moses Feinstein, the chief posek (arbiter of Halacha) of twentieth century America, here issues a statement, with his letterhead appearing at the top of this poster. He begins by reminding the reader that in Sivan 5738 (1978) he supported R. Yitzhak Ya’akov Weiss (later the Av Bet Din of Jerusalem) in order to save the holy institutions, houses of Torah study and Yeshivot, whose honor of Torah is the honor of all Israel, and the saving of Judaism depends on them and those who are sent from those institutions. Therefore, since now great princes of Torah have organized an Asifat Hizuk - a gathering of encouragement on the 21st day of Tevet 5740 (1980) at the Pratt Institute. And their goal is to strengthen and to arouse the Haredi congregation…to stand to the right of these institutions and to support them…

He therefore asks all students of Yeshivot to appear en masse to this assembly and to thereby strengthen the Edah HaHaredi of the Holy Land and the holy institutions …

          
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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