THE ESTATE OF HOWARD MILLER. AMERICAN HISTORY AND OTHER ESTATES
Lot 131:
A LETTER FROM RAV AVRAHAM KOOK INTERVENING IN A FEUD IN SAFED. June 6, 1922. Typed Letter Signed
A LETTER FROM RAV AVRAHAM KOOK INTERVENING IN A FEUD IN SAFED. June 6, 1922. Typed Letter Signed (TLS). Noted first Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of the Holy Land. With unusual content on land litigation in Palestine , dated October 27, 1925. Written in Hebrew with full signature. Also signed by his secretary Shmuel Aharon Weber. The colony discussed would later have a history of enormous adversity, a brief triumph followed by a tragedy between the two wars and ultimately abandoned. R’ Kook writes THE BOARD OF THE EIN-ZEITIM COLONY HAS CONTACTED US WITH A DEMAND TO BE ALLOWED TO RECEIVE A LAND-LIEN LOAN MORTGAGING THE FOREIGN SETTLER’S LAND FOR PAYMENT OF THEIR SHARE OF THE LEGAL EXPENSES IN THE TRIAL OF THE ARAB’S DECENT ON THE COLONY. COLD THE HONORABLE INVESTIGATE AND DEMAND ASAP WHETHER OR NOT THE LOAN IN NECESSARY OR IF IT SHOULD BE POSTPONED UNTIL A MAESSAGE IS SENT FROM THE COURT TO THE FOREIGN SETTLERS WITH AN EXTENSION….AND A WARNING THAT IF THEY FAIL TO SEND IT THE COURT WILL GIVE THEM A LOAN AT THE ENCUMBRENCE OF THEIR ESTATE WITH ALL THE RESULTS OF THE BONDAGE THEREON AND IF IT DOES, PLEASE ALLOW THE BOARD TO BORROW A SUM OF MONEY THAT WILL PROVE TOT THEM ITS INDISPENSABILITY IN THE LIEN AND WE WILL APPROVE THE AFOREMENTIONED LOAN. Rav Kook writes about a letter he received about a feud between Yeshiva Torat Eretz Yisrael and Yeshiva Hatam Sofer and that a representative must appear before the Rabanut or they will send two rabbis to Safed.
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