HaEdah HaCharedis
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HaEdah HaCharedis (העדה החרדית) (the Edah Charedis also written Edah Haredit and Eda Haredit) is a prominent Haredi rabbinical body in present-day Jerusalem. The Edah Charedis has both Ashkenazi and Sephardi branches.
The Edah was formed in 1919 during the time when the Ottoman Empire's control over Palestine was weakening, and continued in its offices when the British took control after World War I under the British Mandate of Palestine. The British chose to create a new Zionist rabbinical hierarchy under the newly-created Chief Rabbinate of Palestine, which later became the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook became the first Zionist Chief Rabbi in 1921. The anti-Zionist Edah HaCharedis resisted these moves and opposed the new British-created Zionist Chief Rabbinate.
In 1945, Agudath Israel, formerly aligned with the Edah, broke away from it.
Chief Rabbis (גאב\"ד) of the Edah Charedis of Jerusalem
- 1919-1932: Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld (1849-1932)
- Grand Rabbi Yoseph Tzvi Dushinsky (1865-1949)
- Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis (1864-1953)
- Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979)
- 1979-1989: Rabbi Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss (1901-1989; author of Minchas Yitzchak, formerly of Manchester, England)
- 1989-1996: Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Freund (1904-1996; author of Ateres Yehoshua (Chassidei Satmar)
- 1996-2002: Grand Rabbi Yisrael Moshe Dushinsky (1921-2003; son of Rabbi Yoseph Tzvi Dushinsky, listed above)
- 2002 to present: Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss (formerly dayan of Antwerp, Belgium)
Presidents (נשיא) of the Edah Charedis
- Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979)
- Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum of Satmar (1914-2006)
- Rabbi David Soloveitchik Rosh Yeshivah of Brisk, current President of the Edah Charedis
History
The Edah HaCharedis was founded by Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld and Rabbi Yitzchok Yerucham Diskin (son of Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin, Rabbi of Brisk, Lithuania) in 1919 in reaction to the establishment of the Chief Rabbinate by the Zionist movement. Rabbi Sonnenfeld was named the first Chief Rabbi of the Edah Charedis, a position he held until his passing in 1932.
He was succeeded by Rabbi Yoseph Tzvi Dushinsky.
He was succeeded by Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis, who was succeeded by the famous Satmar Rebbe, Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum. Rabbi Teitelbaum lived in the United States, but was the chief rabbi of the Eidah Charedis.
His nephew, the late Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum of Satmar, was given the title of President, upon Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum's passing.
Prominent members of the rabbinical court of the (Ashkenazi) Eidah Charedis
Past members
- Rabbi Pinchas Epstein
- Rabbi Yisrael Yaakov Fisher (1928-2003), author of Even Yisrael
- Rabbi Moshe Halberstam (1932-2006)
- Rabbi Binyamin Rabinowitz
Present members
- Rabbi Yaakov Blau
- Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer (Chassidei Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok)
- Rabbi Naphtali Hertzke Frankel
- Rabbi Yeshayah Rosenberg
- Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch
- Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Ulman (Chassidei Dushinsky)
- Rabbi Yaakov Mendel Yuravitch
Kashrut supervision
The Edah HaCharedis is known for its high standards in rabbinical supervision of kosher food, and is considered to be one of the strictest hechsherim in Israel. It is often simply known as the hechsher of the "Badatz", which stands for Beis Din Tzedek or "Righteous Court of Law".External links
- [Statements against Zionism by the Edah Hacharedis]
- [Obituary of Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Weiss of the Eidah Charedis]
- [Obituary of Rabbi Yisrael Yaakov Fisher of the Eidah HaCharedis]
- [Obituary of Rabbi Yisrael Yaakov Fisher, with much information about the history of the Eidah Charedis]
- [Obituary of Rabbi Moshe Halberstam of the Eidah HaCharedis]
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