Historic letter of all the rabbinic leaders against the enlistment of women, typewritten. Important and rare historic document that was written at the height of the struggle against enlistment of women in 1953. “We, the undersigned, hereby announce that the enlistment of girls into National Service is against our holy Torah,” (Printed signatures:) Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer; Rabbi Eliezer Yehudah Finkel, head of the Mir yeshivah; Rabbi Aryeh Levin; Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach; Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin; the Da’at Sofer of Pressburg; Rabbi Mendelsohn, rabbi of Komemiyut; Rabbi Tzvi Pesach Frank, rabbi of Jerusalem; and more. And the elders of the Admori”m: (the Beit Yisrael) of Gur, of Slonim, of Spinka and more. Handwritten signatures of five of the most prominent rabbis of Chaba”d also appear: Rabbi [Shraga] Melech Baharav Aryeh Kaplan, ‘R’ Meileich der Shvartzer,’ lecturer at the Tomchei Temimim Lod yeshivah and a rabbi in the Rakevet neighborhood of Lod; Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Kesselman lecturer and spiritual supervisor – Mashpi’ah at the Tomchei Temimim Lod yeshiva; Rabbi Shneur Zalman Eliezer Horowitz lecturer at Tomchei Temimim Lod; Rabbi Shneur Zalman Havlin; Rabbi Nachum Terburg, lecturer at the Tomchei Temimim Lod yeshivah. [1] leaf of thin paper 20×16 cm. Stencil print with the addition of handwritten signatures. Fine condition. Aging stains. Fold marks. Filing and staple perforations.