In 1958 Rav Kook was still a מקור for Dayan Weisz from Manchester

Looking at this Tshuveh (Siman 'ט) with an iota of objectivity you might say that he was using RAYH"K to make his point, and not so much because he held of him as a m'kor. Sort of like what the Satmarers do when they wanna make a point regarding their favorite subject, Zionism. They'll bring Belzer letters and show it to a Belzer, and then they'll show letters from the Rebbe Rashab to a Lubavitcher, and so on. But then again, we all know that when asked why he's taking Rav Weisz as dayan in the Edah when he's not a kano'i, the Satmar Rov said that a Talmid Chochom can become a kano'i, a kano'i won't become a talmid chochom so quickly... Which is what happened; Rav Weisz fell in line with the Edah theology very nicely, just like the SR foretold. We bring you the Tshuveh in Minchas Yitzchok, and then the Tshuveh in Kol Yisroel from Rav Kook in 1933.

 

קול ישראל courtesy of  תוך כדי דיבור on Otzar haChochmah. Minchas Yitzchok courtesy of HebrewBooks.

How Rav Yitzchok Yaakov Weisz ז"ל respected all תלמידי חכמים

Received via e-mail:

"You posted about Rav Elyashiv and the Edah. I thought you might be interested in this tidbit of history. Attached is a tshuva of Rav Weisz of the Edah Hacharedis to one of the most rabid of kanoyim in the Satmar (Zali) orbit: R. Moshe Menachem Tirnauer (whom I know personally - I even once heard him give a fiery anti R. Elyashiv drasha in the Satmar Shul in Montreal) Here Rav Weisz dismisses R. Tirnauer and rebukes him for the way he writes about the Machaze Eliyahu. (Rav Falk from Gateshead) In the end Rav Weisz quotes Rav Elyashiv to Tirnauer. Which makes those who know Tirnauer (who BTW recently held a drasha against the Sholem with Belz) chuckle somewhat.

I added directional pointers to the names mentioned."