Yerushalayim should raise an outcry against the people who
breached the walls of kashrus in the Holy City, the court of
the King, the city of royalty.
Recently the kashrus functions of the Religious Council in
the Holy City have been transferred to the authority party
officials who do as they see fit, without any accepted
rabbinical authority.
Issuing kashrus certificates, directives and guidelines and
answers to halachic questions — have always been left
exclusively to the authority of the rov posek shlita,
and rulings have always been made on the basis of halochoh
and hiddur. Now these officials, who are far from
being able to give halachic rulings, have taken all this upon
themselves.
Our hearts are filled with fear and trepidation over the
grave incursion on the sanctity of the pure table, one of Am
Yisroel's most cherished principles, which has always been
placed under the exclusive control of gedolei Torah
veyiroh who specialized in this great area of Torah and
who stand up in the breach and build fences, thereby gaining
merit and bringing merit to the masses by preventing outside
figures from taking over, chas vesholom.
And now it is incumbent upon us to gird ourselves to remove
this evil decree and to do everything in our power to return
the matter to its former pedestal by placing kashrus matters
back in the hands of daas Torah and the authority of
the rov posek shlita in order to preserve matters at
the standard the nation has kept faithfully to this day. For
the sake of Tzion we will not be still and for the sake of
kashrus in Yerushalayim we will not remain silent.
May Hashem bring a spirit of purity from the Heavens on all
of the figures involved in this matter of great import, to
understand its way and its place and to return the glory of
kashrus to its original stature, and may Yisroel be saved
through Hashem's eternal salvation.
Chaim Pinchos Sheinberg
Yochonon Sofer
Shmuel Auerbach
Yisroel Grossman
Efraim Fishel Rabinowitz
Avrohom Dov Auerbach
Zundel Kreuzer
Zalman Nechemiyoh Goldberg
Yehoshua Neuwirth
Avrohom Kopshitz
Simchoh Bunim Sofer
Moshe Aharon Rosenthal
Moshe Salant
Naftoli Nussbaum
Mordechai Shlomo Steinmetz
Sholom Eisenberg
The above applies to all areas of food preparation and
serving that are under the supervision of the Jerusalem
Rabbinate (Rabbonut Yerushalayim), both the mehadrin and the
regular kashrus sections.
