Letter from Rebbe Rayatz - Regarding His Disagreement with the Rebbe of Ger and His Opposition to Agudat Yisrael - 1923

Letter from Rebbe Rayatz - Regarding His Disagreement with the Rebbe of Ger and His Opposition to Agudat Yisrael - 1923
Letter from Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn - the Rayatz of Lubavitch, addressed to R. Shlomo Zalman Havlin of Hebron. [Rostov], 8th Tevet 1923. Most of the letter is written by a scribe, and it concludes with a line handwritten and signed by Rebbe Rayatz. Lengthy and interesting letter regarding various matters related to communal activity. The first part of the letter is encoded in enigmatic terms (for fear of the authorities), and pertains to assistance from Jews abroad for Russian Jewry. Part of the letter relates to his opposition to Agudat Yisrael: "…in truth, it would be correct for him to know the details of the debate which I held (in writing) with the heads of Agudat Yisrael and the Rebbe of Ger [the Imrei Emet], and especially that Dr. Cohen (director of the Agudah) wrote to me that in Eretz Israel, my letters against the Agudah were published, and he demanded that I instruct not to combat them, and to this I responded openly that I do oppose them and their ways, and then they invited me to participate in the congress on the past 4th Elul in Vienna [the Knessia Gedolah which took place in Vienna in Elul 1923], and I wrote them a long letter of protest on the bad they are doing…". The letter concludes with a line handwritten and signed by the Rebbe, blessing: "Be blessed and in peace, as is his wish and the wish of his friend who seeks his wellbeing and blesses him, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn". The letter was published in its entirety in HaMashpia (Jerusalem, 1982, pp. 289-290), and from there was copied to Igrot Kodesh (Vol. I, pp. 349-351), with the omission of the passage relating to Agudat Yisrael and with a mistaken date. [1] folded leaf (3 written pages). 21 cm. Good condition. Stains. Folding marks.