For Sale: Antique pashkevil against Hasidism

Single copy of the pashkevil with the boycott of the Vilna Gaon ban against the Hasidim will soon be up for auction.

Pashkevil dated to the middle of the 19th century, and appears in the call for boycott against the Hasidim on the orders of the Vilna Gaon of Vilna.

Ron Warren, director of the Kedem auction house says that "Hasidic and Lithuanian collectors are very interested in the item. After all, both feel an affinity to an item and it makes them of great interest. Community of collectors are joking that the Hasidim want the item to burn the last reminder of the boycott. But I doubt if anyone would do that. "

When Hasidus was born two hundred years ago, it aroused great opposition and the Vilna Gaon of Vilna declared a boycott.

The boycott led to decades of struggle between the Hasidim and Lithuanians, who have been called 'misnagdim', the name of opposition to Hasidism.

The pashkevil exposed repeatedly reminds the public the boycott and is distributed to street ads.

Pashkevil displayed for sale at the auction house Kedem at the end of the month as part of sale "items are important and extremely rare," described the Hasidim as making a societies themselves, and their laws are diverse from all people "and mention made in Vilna in which they" uprooted their evil minds o and as we moved from place this also uproot all places, that will be remembered and command, not to exceed heart forever. "

'בחדרי' גם ברשתות החברתיות - הצטרפו!