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At the Vienna, 1923 meeting of "The Great Assembly of Agudat Yisrael" major rabbis discussed the controversy that was going on in Jerusalem regarding the "Chief Rabbi" R. Yitzhak Zelig Morgenstern (the Sokolover Rebbe) and R. Tzvi Hanoch HaKohen Lewin of Bendin were sent as representatives of Agudat Yisrael and went to Jerusalem and herein give their ruling. The report is affirmed by R. Avraham Mordechai Alter.
The decision is a compromise between Kehilat Yerushalayim under the leadership of R. Avraham Yitzhak HaKohen Kook on one side and Va'ad for the Kehilat Ashkenzaim under the leadership of R. Yosef Hayyim Sonnenfeld on the other. The decision is divided into three arenas: 1) The organs (i.e. newspapers, etc.)"The voices will stop." 2) The organization and committee of Kashruth and 3) the peace of Jerusalem. |
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R. Avraham Mordechai Alter, (25 December 1866 – 3 June 1948), also known as the Imrei Emes after the works he authored, was the third Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1905 until his death in 1948. He was one of the founders of the Agudas Israel in Poland and was influential in establishing a network of Jewish schools there. It is claimed that at one stage he led over 200,000 Hasidim. In 1924, R. Avraham Mordechai visited Palestine together with his brother in-law, R. Hirsh Heynekh Lewin, his son-in-law R.Yitzchak Meir Alter and the Sokolover Rebbe, R. Yitzchak Zelig Morgensztern. Over a six-week period, they visited Jerusalem, Safed, Hebron, Tiberias and Tel Aviv.
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