Vintage envelope of Isreal First chief Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaKohen Kook for Sale

Vintage envelope of Isreal First chief Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaKohen Kook For Sale

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Vintage envelope of Isreal First chief Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaKohen Kook:
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Abraham Isaac Kook(Hebrew:אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק הַכֹּהֵןקוּק; 7 September 1865 – 1 September 1935), known asRavKook,[1]and also known by anOrthodoxrabbi, andthe firstAshkenaziChief Rabbiof BritishMandatory Palestine. He is considered to be one of the fathersofreligious Zionismand is known for founding theMercaz HaRav Yeshiva.[4]

BiographyChildhood

Kook was born inGriva(also spelledGeriva)[5]in theCourland Governorateof theRussian Empirein1865, today a part ofDaugavpils,Latvia, the oldest of eight children. His father, Rabbi ShlomoZalman Ha-Cohen Kook, was a student of theVolozhin yeshiva, the"mother of theLithuanianyeshivas",[6]whereas his maternal grandfather was a follower of theKapustbranch of theHasidic movement, foundedby the son of the thirdrebbeofChabad, RabbiMenachem Mendel Schneersohn.[7]His mother's name was Zlata Perl.[5]: p.56

He entered theVolozhin Yeshivain1884 at the age of 18, where he became close to therosh yeshiva, RabbiNaftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin(theNetziv).During his time in the yeshiva, he studied under RabbiEliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim(also known as theAderet),the rabbi and later ChiefAshkenazi Rabbi ofJerusalem.In 1886 Kook married Rabinowitz-Teomim's daughter, Batsheva.[8][9][10]

Early career

In 1887, at the age of 23,[11]Kook entered his first rabbinical position as rabbi ofZaumel, Lithuania.[5]: p.18 [12]In 1888, his wife died, and his father-in-law convinced himto marry her cousin, Raize-Rivka, the daughter of the Aderet's twin brother.Kook's only son,Zvi Yehuda Kook, was born in 1891 to Kook and his second wife.[13]In 1895, Kook became the rabbi ofBauska.[5]: p.22 [14][15]

Between 1901 and 1904, he published threearticles which anticipate the philosophy that he later more fully developed inthe Land of Israel. Kook personally refrained from eating meat except on theSabbath and Festivals, and a compilation of extracts from his writing, compiledby his discipleDavid Cohen, known as "Rav HaNazir" (or "theNazir of Jerusalem")[16]and titled by him "A Vision of Vegetarianism andPeace," depicts a progression, guided by Torah law, towards a vegetariansociety.[17][18]

Jaffa

In 1904,[19]Kook was invited to become Rabbi inJaffa,Ottoman Palestine, and he arrived there in 1905. During theseyears he wrote a number of works, mostly published posthumously, notably alengthy commentary on titledEynAyah, and a brief book on morality and spirituality, titledMussarAvicha.

It was in 1911 that Kook also maintaineda correspondence with theJews of Yemen, addressingsome twenty-six questions to "the honorable shepherds of God'scongregation" (Heb.כבוד רועיעדת ד‎) and sending his letter via the known Zionist emissary, ShemuelYavneʼeli. Their reply was later printed in a book published by Yavneʼeli.[20][21]Kook's influence on people in different walks of life wasalready noticeable, as he engaged inkiruv("Jewish outreach"), thereby creating agreater role forTorahandHalakhain the life of the city and the nearbysettlements. In 1913 Kook led a delegation of rabbis, including several leadingrabbinic figures such asRabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, to the many newly establishedsecular "moshavot" (settlements) inSamariaandGalilee. Known as the "Journey of the Rabbis" therabbis' goal was to strengthen Shabbat observance, Torah education, and otherreligious observances, with an emphasis on the giving of 'terumot and ma'asrot'(agriculturaltithes) as these were farming settlements.[22]

London and World War I

When theFirst World Warbegan,Kook was in Germany, where he was interned as an alien.[23]He escaped toLondonviaSwitzerland, but theongoing conflict forced him to stay in the UK for the remainder of the war. In1916, he became rabbi of the Spitalfields Great Synagogue (Machzike Hadath,"upholders of the law"), an immigrant Orthodox community located inBrick Lane,Spitalfields,London, and Kook lived at 9 Princelet Street, Spitalfields.[24][25]

Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem

Upon returning from Europe in 1919,[5]: 44 hewas appointed theAshkenaziChief RabbiofJerusalem, and soon after,as first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Palestine in 1921.[26]

In March 1924, in an effort to raisefunds for Torah institutions in Palestine and Europe, Kook travelled to Americawith RabbiMoshe Mordechai Epsteinof theSlabodka Yeshivaand the Rabbi of Kaunas,Avraham Dov Baer Kahana Shapiro. In the same year, Kookfounded theMercaz HaRavyeshivainJerusalem.

Kook died in Jerusalem in 1935 and hisfuneral was attended by an estimated 20,000 mourners.

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