KOOK, ABRAHAM ISAAC.
AUCTION 63 |
Thursday, November 13th,
2014 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art
Lot 297
KOOK, ABRAHAM ISAAC.
Jaffa: 5th Nisan 1909
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
PRICE REALIZED $7,000
<<Highly important responsum concerning Shemitah and the Heter Mechirah.>>
Although the respondent’s name does not appear in the letter, according to the published version, it was written to R. Yaakov David (Wilowsky) Ridvaz of Slutzk and Safed with whom Rav Kook had a deep disagreement over the appropriate methods by which the new agricultural colonies of Eretz Israel should observe the Shemitah year.
See Abraham Isaac Kook, Mishpat Kohen no. 61, pp. 124-25.