Poster against Rabbi Shlomo Goren in the Brother and Sister's Affair:

Poster against Rabbi Shlomo Goren in the Brother and Sister's Affair:
"Eish Eish Asher Beshem Rav Yechune...All this man's instructions for Betalin and Mevutalin and must not be trusted at all".A poster distributed in response to a ruling by the rabbinical court headed by Rabbi Shlomo Goren in the affair known as the "brother and sister affair," after he ruled that the brothers Hanoch and Miriam Langer were permitted to appear in the audience. [1972]

The ruling came out after being discussed in a secret panel of nine anonymous rabbis about the question that arose following the question of the divorce of the mother's first husband.

The affair shook the Israeli public and caused Rabbi Goren a great anger among the ultra-Orthodox public and deepened the rift between the Haredi community and the Chief Rabbinate in Israel in an unprecedented manner.

The poster before us was distributed in Sderot after the Council of Torah Sages, headed by Rabbi Moshe Hevroni, convened in an expanded panel that included Rabbi Elyashiv and other rabbis for the first time.

And published a voice call that declared: "We are profoundly shocked by the terrible act that one who, in the name of a well-known rabbi, rose up and boldly dared to lend a hand in the Torah of Moses to allow disqualified people by expropriating the Judaism of a person who is presumed to be a stranger." Therefore we declare that all the instructions of this man, Trust them at all .."

The poster is signed with the signatures of the great rabbis of the generation - Rabbi Ya'akov Yisrael Kanievsky, Rabbi Shach, Rabbi Elyashiv and other rabbis.In a similar public announcement, Rabbi Goren was compared to a Reform rabbi, and as a public response to the ruling there was a "huge protest stand" in Bnei Brak headed by Rabbi Shach, Rabbi Shmuel Wassner, the Admor of Mikhnavka, and other rabbis, in which he spoke harsh words of protest against Rabbi Goren and the Chief Rabbinate in general. In the wake of the ruling, Rabbi Elyashiv resigned from the Rabbinical Court, and in fact the affair did not subsist until the death of Rabbi Goren in 1994.  

Size: 62x47 cm.

Condition; Good . Folding marks, few stains on lower part.