Three seals: the Satmar Beit Din, and two seals of R. Naftali Halpert, Rabbi of Satmar:

1. Shabbat Schedule Seal of the Satmar Beit Din. Ca. 1920s-1930s. Carved rubber, mounted on a wooden base and handle. Large rectangular seal, trilingual (Hebrew, Yiddish and Hungarian); inscribed at top: “With G-d’s help / Erev Shabbat Parashat / Satmar, may it be built and established”, and at bottom: “Beit Din Tzedek of this place” (all in Hebrew). The central portion is formatted as a table with blank spaces for handwritten entries: "Time for donning Tefillin", "Latest Shema (morning)", "Time for placing food on the fire", "Store closing time", "Candle lighting time", "End of Shabbat".

11.5X7.5 cm; height (incl. base and handle): ca. 7 cm.

2-3. Two Seals of R. Naftali Halpert, Rabbi of Satmar. Ca. 1960s-1970s. Carved rubber, with wooden handles. Round seals. One with Hebrew inscription: "Naftali Halpert, Rabbi of the Holy Congregation of Satmar"; the other in Romanian: " Halpert Naftuli Prim Rabin Satu-Mare".

Diameters: 2.5 cm and 3 cm. Handle heights: 6 and 7 cm.

R. Naftali Halpert (1905-1988), last rabbi of the Satmar community in Romania, was a devout follower of the Vizhnitz rebbes, including the Ahavat Yisrael of Vizhnitz and his sons. He studied under the author of She’erit Menachem in Vyshiva, who also ordained him, and later in the yeshivot of the Yagel Yaakov in Miskolc and Keren LeDavid in Satmar. He lost his wife and seven children in the Holocaust. After the war, he rebuilt his home in Satmar and helped reestablish the city’s Torah and charitable institutions. In 1962, he was appointed chief rabbi of Satmar and placed in charge of all religious and kashrut matters in the Transylvanian region. He served for twenty years, devoting himself fully to the needs of the community. In 1982, he immigrated to Israel and settled in the Ramat Vizhnitz neighborhood of Haifa.

Condition varies. Defects and corrosion.