(First Aschkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, 1865-1934). Large group of c. 50 items including Autograph, Typed and Secretarial Letters Signed. Many on official or personal headed paper. With addressed envelopes and related materials.

<<LETTERS WITH SCHOLARLY, HALACHIC CONTENT:>> Responsa to prominent Rabbis and scholars including: Four pages of a typed responsa to Chief Rabbi Uziel of Tel Aviv concerning changing family custom and Hebrew pronunciations, plus comments on the building of Eretz Israel. <<*>> Letter to R. Eliyahu Aaron Milekovsky-Samunov of Charkov and Rosh Beth Din of Tel Aviv with Halachic and Aggadic comments. *Two letters to R. Reuven Margalioth, including two pages of comments on Margalioth’s work on the Mishnah. <<LETTERS OF HISTORIC CONTENT:>> * An early letter dated 1888 (when only 24 years old), from R. Kook’s first rabbinical position in Zaumel, Lithuania, to R. Mordechai Gimpel Jaffe of Rozinoi upon his imminent Aliyah to Eretz Israel. And to his son-in-law, R. Tzvi Hirsch Wolk concerning publication of R. Kook’s Torah journal Ittur Sofrim. <<*>> Beth Din Document signed along with R. Tzvi Pesach Frank, R. Yoseph Gershon Horowitz concerning the exclusive right of the Baharan brothers to sell Lulavim. <<*>> Four letters to R. Ya’akov Chai Zareihon of Tiberias concerning a general meeting of all the Rabbis of the Holy Land and meetings with the British High Commissioner. <<OTHER INTERESTING LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS.>> Letters to various doctors (especially Dr. Wallach) requesting, or thanking them for their services. <<*>> Appeals for funds to support various important scholars, as well as his own Yeshivah. <<*>> Ordinations. <<*>> Kashruth and related communal matters. <<*>> A broadside for Yeshivath Bar Yochai in Meron with endorsements by Rabbi Kook, the Munkatcher Rebbe, R. Joel Teitelbaum of Krula (later of Satmar) and Chaim Nachman Bialik. <<*>> Rare printed pamphlet: “Michtav Galui” (1905), endorsed by all the Batei Din and major Ashkenazic and Sephardic Rabbis of Jerusalem thanking R. Kook for protesting against the heretical remarks of Eliezer ben Yehuda.