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The Historic Letter from the Council of Torah Sages to the Chief Rabbinate with the Demand to Forbid Sherut Leumi - Historic item of rare importance: letter from the members of Agudat Yisrael's Council of Torah Sages against the Sherut Leumi decree. Signatories on this letter include the geonim : Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, the Beit Yisrael of Gur, Rabbi Eliezer Yehudah Finkel, the gaon of Brashov, Rabbi Henich Sinkevich, the Da'at Sofer of Pressburg, the gaon of Tchebin, the gaon of Turda and Rabbi Tzvi Kuntshlichter. Jerusalem, 1 Menachem Av, 1953. Two weeks before the huge protest on Tisha B'Av in 1953. This is one of the most important letters on the subject of Sherut Leumi, which roiled the State of Israel in the fifties, if not the  most important one. The letter was sent to the chief rabbinate and to the chief rabbi, the renowned gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac HaLevi Herzog, with a firm and unambiguous request that Rabbi Herzog immediately publish the chief rabbinate's agreement to the prohibition against Sherut Leumi: ”We request that [your] honor immediately publish the decision to forbid Sherut Leumi ... delay no longer”! Background to the letter: In 1953, David Ben-Gurion initiated the Sherut Leumi law requiring every girl who received an exemption from the IDF to serve in Sherut Leumi. The law provoked stormy demonstrations the likes of which the State of Israel had never known, by the leading rabbis in the Chareidi community, led by the Chazon Ish who declared that such service is forbidden by the prohibition of yehareg u'val ya'avor . After receiving this letter, the chief rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Isaac Herzog, also joined the battle and the law became a nonstarter in the Israeli law books. The letter is of tremendous historical importance, and is a main source of the stalwart struggle waged by the  gedolei hador  of the time. Rabbi Shlomo Lorincz in his sefer, BiMechitzitam shel Gedolei HaTorah  (pp. 65-67) notes as follows in connection with this controversy: ”Many of the rabbis feared that signing the official public prohibition might lead to their imprisonment. This fear turned out to be justified, with the arrest and imprisonment of Rabbi Yisrael Grossman for his involvement in collecting signatures to publish the ban.” This fact establishes the great significance of this letter and attests to the enormous courage of each and every one of the signatories. [1] leaf paper, 30 cm. Fine condition. Restored tear in the bottom of the letter, without lack.