Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Letters by the Rabbis of Tiberias and Hebron - To the Chief Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook
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Two letters by Rabbis of Tiberias and Hebron to Rabbi Kook:
• Letters of recommendation by heads and rabbis of the community and by Rabbi "Yechiel Michel Av Bet Din of Tiberias". Sent to Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook at the time he served as Av Bet Din of Jaffa. Tiberias, Elul, 1906.
Rabbi Yechiel Michel Halprin (1857-1909), came to Palestine in 1880. From 1896, he served as Av Bet Din of the Ashkenazi community in Tiberias.
Leaf 26 cm. Good condition, foxing.
• Long letter, by Rabbi Ya'akov Yosef Slonim (signed as a kvittel: "Ya'akov Yosef Moshe ben Mushka Miriam"), rabbi of the Ashkenazi settlement in Hebron, sent to the United States to "Our rabbi…the holy Torah genius Rabbi Kook", requesting that he fulfill his promise to act on behalf of the Hebron Jewish settlement on his journey to the United States. Adar Bet 1924. [This letter was written at the time Rabbi Kook traveled together with Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Rabbi Meir Dan Plotsky and Rabbi Avraham Duber Kahana-Shapira author of Dvar Avraham to the USA].
Rabbi Ya'akov Yosef Slonim (188—Tishrei 1937), descendant of the elder Chabad Rebbe, born in Hebron and one of the founders of the Torat Emet Yeshiva in Hebron. From 1916-1929, he served as Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi community of Hebron. After the 1929 riots in which his wife and most of his family were murdered, he moved to Jerusalem.
Official stationery, 28 cm. Good-fair condition, minor tears.
• Letters of recommendation by heads and rabbis of the community and by Rabbi "Yechiel Michel Av Bet Din of Tiberias". Sent to Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook at the time he served as Av Bet Din of Jaffa. Tiberias, Elul, 1906.
Rabbi Yechiel Michel Halprin (1857-1909), came to Palestine in 1880. From 1896, he served as Av Bet Din of the Ashkenazi community in Tiberias.
Leaf 26 cm. Good condition, foxing.
• Long letter, by Rabbi Ya'akov Yosef Slonim (signed as a kvittel: "Ya'akov Yosef Moshe ben Mushka Miriam"), rabbi of the Ashkenazi settlement in Hebron, sent to the United States to "Our rabbi…the holy Torah genius Rabbi Kook", requesting that he fulfill his promise to act on behalf of the Hebron Jewish settlement on his journey to the United States. Adar Bet 1924. [This letter was written at the time Rabbi Kook traveled together with Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Rabbi Meir Dan Plotsky and Rabbi Avraham Duber Kahana-Shapira author of Dvar Avraham to the USA].
Rabbi Ya'akov Yosef Slonim (188—Tishrei 1937), descendant of the elder Chabad Rebbe, born in Hebron and one of the founders of the Torat Emet Yeshiva in Hebron. From 1916-1929, he served as Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi community of Hebron. After the 1929 riots in which his wife and most of his family were murdered, he moved to Jerusalem.
Official stationery, 28 cm. Good-fair condition, minor tears.
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