Auction 37 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

A Will Signed by the Nazir, Rabbi David HaCohen

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A Will, handwritten and signed by Rabbi David HaCohen. 27th of Sivan 1965.
In his will, he bequeaths his books "Holy books and mundane books of wisdom" to his son Rabbi Eliyahu Yosef She'ar Yashuv Cohen". On the reverse side of the leaf is another will in his handwriting and with his signature where he bequeaths Ma'aser Sheni money to his son-in-law "to buy books which he needs and study them with great pleasure".
The Nazir Rabbi – Rabbi David HaCohen (1887-1972), Torah genius and mekubal, disciple of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook, served as Rabbi in Mercaz HaRav. In his great aspirations for perfection of his soul, he accepted upon himself the laws of a Nazir, abstention from wine and cutting his hair, and he also abstained from eating meat and other products produced from animals. His son is Rabbi She'ar Yashuv Cohen, Chief Rabbi of Haifa, and his son-in-law was Rabbi Shlomo Goren (1918-1995), who served as IDF Chief Rabbi, Rabbi of Tel-Aviv and Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel.
2 pages, 18.5 cm. Good condition.
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