Kol be-Hadar [regarding the ethrogim of Eretz Israel]

KOOK, ABRAHAM ISAAC HAKOHEN

(Jaffa)

(1906)

FIRST EDITION. Title within decorative border

Rare Pamphlet Pertaining to the Early Settlement of Eretz Israel. This small booklet was issued to promote the ethrogim grown and marketed by the “Agudath Peri Etz Hadar,” as it was called in Hebrew, or as it was referred to in German, “Gesellschaft Pry Ez Hodor, Jaffa.” The ethrog-orchard was under the supervision of the newly-appointed (1904) rabbi of Jaffa, Rabbi A.I. Hakohen Kook, who attested that the fruits were non-hybrid and thus fit to be used for the “four species” on the festival of Sukkoth. Rabbi Kook, as was his wont, waxed both philosophic and poetic in his remarks, observing how hybridization constitutes a tampering with God-given nature, and called upon his brethren in the Diaspora to support the rebirth of the Land of Israel by supporting the local farmers