(“R. Chaim Brisker,” 1853-1918). Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew with his stamp, to R. Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook of Jaffa

SOLOVEITCHIK, CHAIM.

3rd Mar-Cheshvan

(Brisk)

1908

A letter of recommendation on behalf of a congregant in Brisk seeking a new life in Eretz Israel

In addition to his stature as the predominant Talmudist of his day, R. Chaim was a paragon of charity and communal activity. In the present letter Chief Rabbi Kook is requested to do all he can to assist the individual that R. Chaim praises here - who unfortunately is currently in depressed circumstances - it is a “matter of Piku’ach Nephesh." R. Chaim concludes with an extended offering of blessings to his "Exalted Honor," Rabbi Kook. See B.Z. Shapiro, Igroth LaRaya”h (1990) pp. 83 and 589. An important letter that displays the esteem that R. Chaim of Brisk held of Chief Rabbi Kook