Ketav Harsha’ah shel ha-Yeshivah ha-Merkazith ha-Olamith…mi-yesod R. Avraham Yitzchak Hakohen Kook [Writ of Emissary of The Central Universal Yeshivah of Jerusalem]

ISRAEL, LAND OF)

Jerusalem

22nd May, 1929

Typed Letters Signed (bound), some on letterhead of Chief Rabbi Kook, in Hebrew, Yiddish and English. Ornate multi-colored manuscript title-page. With signatures of Rabbis Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook, Jacob Moses Charlop and Zevi Judah Hakohen Kook—in both Hebrew and English

TRADITIONAL KETAV SHADA”R [SHELUCHA DE-RABBANAN] (WRIT OF EMISSARY) FOR R. ASHER NISSAN LEVITAN Rabbi Kook’s role in the yeshivah was somewhat honorific, consisting of a shi’ur kelali (general lecture) on the tractate at the beginning of each zeman (semester). Daily shi’urim were delivered by Rabbi J.M. Charlop and the administration of the yeshivah. The overseeing of funds was delegated to the Chief Rabbi’s son, Rabbi Zevi Judah Hakohen Kook. This historic document states the urgency to absorb the influx of new students applying from Soviet Russia and other countries of the Diaspora. The emissary, R. Asher Nissan Levitan, was the uncle of R. Eliezer Shach, late Rosh Yeshiva, Ponevezh, B’nei Berak