ABSTRACT
The conflicts and dilemmas rose to the surface with the building of the Nahalat Shiva quarter in the 1860s; the young Prushi activists who confronted them headlong can be called collectively "the Nahalat Shiva generation."Rivlin departed for Shklov accompanied by two young Jerusalem Prushis: Yoel Moshe Salomon, the grandson of Shlomo Zalman Tsoref and son of Mordekhai Salomon; and Mikhal Hacohen, whose father, Rabbi Eliahu, had been forced by the Prushi rabbis to give up his shoemaking business. While the Nahalat Shiva project languished, Yehoshua Yellin, too, was occupied with other matters. A dispute within the Sephardi community impelled Yehezkel to send his son-in-law to London as an emissary to the Sephardi leadership there. In comparison to what happened with Nahalat Shiva, few voices of dissent were raised when people went to live in Mishkenot She'ananim, mainly because the settlers were Sephardi or Middle Eastern Jews, whose move came out of practical rather than theological motives.
