Eulogies for Chief Rabbi Kook

Comprising: Twelve eulogies for the deceased Aschkenazic Chief Rabbi of Eretz Israel, Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook (1865-1935). The broadsides were issued by: Yeshivath Merkaz Harav (2); Yeshivath Me’ah She’arim (Rabbis Joseph Gershon Horvitz, Isaac Jacob Wachtfogel, Hayim Leib Auerbach); Midrash B’nei Tzion; Beit ha-Knesseth Horenstein (R. Jekuthiel Aryeh Kamelhar); Kollel Vilna, Lita—Zamut—Kurland—Liefland (R. Elijah Romm, R. Daniel Zaks); Beit ha-Knesseth Nachlath Shiv’ah; Zion Orphan Home; Beit ha-Knesseth Mishkan Jacob ve-Israel, Achvah (R. Raphael Hakohen Kook, R. Mordecai Leib Zaks); Harry Fischel Institute; Beit ha-Knesseth Ohalei Jacob, Zichron Moshe (Rabbis Samuel Rapaport, formerly of Springfield, Mass., Meir Stalevitz of Chaslavitch, and Moses Chaskin of Priluki); Chief Rabbinate of Eretz Israel. The 13th broadside is a call to prayer issued by the “Batei ha-Dinim Perushim ve-Chasidim of Jerusalem,” and signed by Rabbi Zevi Pesach Frank, Joseph Gershon Horvitz, and Elijah Romm (Perushim); and Israel Ze’ev Mintzberg, Jeruchem Fischel Bernstein, and Samuel Pesach Heilperin (Chasidim). This last broadside was issued during Rabbi Kook’s final illness. “Our brothers, children of Israel” are asked to pray on behalf of “Abraham Isaac ben Pera Zlata.” (It is customary to employ the mother’s name when praying for the sick.) Rabbi Kook finally succumbed, to stomach cancer, on the third of Ellul, 5695 (1935)