Auction 27 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters
Long Letter from Rabbi Kook – 1925
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A long letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Avraham Yitchak HaCohen Kook "Chief Rabbi of Israel”, to Rabbi Eliezer Silver. Jerusalem, 1925.
A letter of congratulations on the appointment of Rabbi Eliezer to the Springfield (Massachusetts) rabbinate. In the letter, Rabbi Kook writes at length of his plans to establish a "general association of rabbis" and of the strengthening of the "Yeshiva HaMercazit Ha'Olamit", about the plan to establish a building for the yeshiva and the plan to construct a building in Jerusalem for the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.
Two official stationary leaves, 26.5 cm. More than 40 handwritten lines. Good-fair condition, folding marks and stains. A copy of this letter was printed in “Igrot HaRa'aya”, Vol. 4, Igeret 1, 286.
A letter of congratulations on the appointment of Rabbi Eliezer to the Springfield (Massachusetts) rabbinate. In the letter, Rabbi Kook writes at length of his plans to establish a "general association of rabbis" and of the strengthening of the "Yeshiva HaMercazit Ha'Olamit", about the plan to establish a building for the yeshiva and the plan to construct a building in Jerusalem for the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.
Two official stationary leaves, 26.5 cm. More than 40 handwritten lines. Good-fair condition, folding marks and stains. A copy of this letter was printed in “Igrot HaRa'aya”, Vol. 4, Igeret 1, 286.
Archive of Rabbi Eliezer Silver
Archive of Rabbi Eliezer Silver