Lot 475
Archive of Rabbi Aharon Mendel HaCohen who Renewed the Semicha (Ordination)
Archive of Rabbi Aharon Mendel HaCohen Rabbi of Cairo, known for his efforts to renew Semicha.
Archive contains: Dozens of booklets of homiletics in his handwriting (including a "Homiletic to the Agudat Yisrael Youth in Vienna 1923…", "Homiletic for convention to purchase land in Eretz Yisrael etc.). A draft of his testament. * Printed leaf, "Maranan V'Rabanan" – a call to establish the Great Beit Din in Jerusalem. Cairo, 1923. * Letters to Rabbi Aharon HaCohen [by Rabbi Ya'akov Shaul Dweck HaCohen, Rabbi Eliyahu Yaloz etc.]. * Large collection of letters from Rabbi Aharon HaCohen's wife and children. * Copy of printed photograph of Rabbi Aharon HaCohen ["Who gathers the Jewish Torah scholars to establish the Great Beit Din in Jerusalem"]. * Printed compositions of Rabbi Aharon HaCohen: Klilat Chatanim. Cairo, 1910; Kuntress Agunot. Cairo, 1924; HaKaddish. Cairo, 1919; Evel Mitzrayim. Part 1. Cairo, [after 1908]; Evel Mitzrayim, Part 2. [Alexandria]. * Envelope with strands of his beard.
Rabbi Aharon Mendel HaCohen (1866-1926), Torah genius and author, native of Tiberias. Served as Ashkenasi rabbi of Cairo for thirty years. Especially famous for his efforts and attempts to renew semicha. Founded Agudat HaRabbanim which branched out in a number of European cities. Later, he organized the rabbis' convention in Cracow in 1903 which ended in the failure of his plan. After World War I, he established the Knesset Yisrael association and was active in founding the central Beit Din [to officiate as a kind of Sanhedrin] in Jerusalem. His history and writings were concentrated in the book Yad Re'em (Tel-Aviv 1960).
Hundreds of leaves. Varied size and condition.
