Large poster – "Copying of letters of the Rebbe of Babruysk regarding the officials appointed over etrog trade in the Holy Land" – copying of letters of Rebbe Shemaryah Noach Schneersohn, Rabbi of Babruysk, regarding the schism of the Chabad Kollel in Eretz Israel. Poltava: R. Eliyahu Akiva Rabinowitz, [ca. 1913].

A poster dating to the schism in the Chabad Kollel in Eretz Israel between the "Chabad Kollel" headed by the Rebbe Rashab and the "Special Chabad Kollel" headed by his cousin, Rebbe Shemaryah Noach Schneersohn, Rabbi of Babruysk. The schism lasted ten years – 1913-1922 – during the course of which, both sides published booklets, letters, halachic rulings, notices and posters in support of their respective viewpoints.

The present poster contains a copying of three letters by Rebbe Shemaryah Noach of Babruysk, sent in Adar, Iyar and Tamuz 1913, addressing the causes of the schism, which began with accusations of misappropriation of funds by kollel officials.

[1] leaf. 44 cm. Fair condition. Stains and creases. Tears to margins and folds.

Rare. The present poster is not recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book or in the catalog of the Chabad-Lubavitch Library in New York. Another copy of this poster was scanned by the NLI, along with an issue of Hamodia (October 29, 1914). The poster appears to date to an earlier point [ca. 1913] and to have been bound with the Hamodia issue at a later time.