Auction 19 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters
A Decisive Interesting Letter from Rabbi Kook to the Hadassah Hospital Management
Opening: $200
Sold for: $813
Including buyer's premium
A sharp letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, to the Hadassah management. Jerusalem, 1922.
"Know that the sick young womanג€¦ in the English Hospital is about to convert by forceג€¦ and that stain will be attributed to your institute Hadassahג€¦ I will be forced to publicize in the papers that I blame you for this lost soulג€¦ Listen to my words and receive this sick woman and save our poor sister's soulג€¦".
17 cm. Good condition. Holes, folding marks and creases.
"Know that the sick young womanג€¦ in the English Hospital is about to convert by forceג€¦ and that stain will be attributed to your institute Hadassahג€¦ I will be forced to publicize in the papers that I blame you for this lost soulג€¦ Listen to my words and receive this sick woman and save our poor sister's soulג€¦".
17 cm. Good condition. Holes, folding marks and creases.
Letters
Letters