Auction 60 · Lot 328
(KOOK, ABRAHAM ISAAC).
- Estimate
- $2,000–$2,500
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
Warsaw
Publication
1935
Description
(Chief Rabbi of Eretz Israel, 1865-1935). Letter Signed, in Hebrew, on letterhead, from the Agudath HaRabanim of Poland upon the death of Rabbi Kook, written to the Chief Rabbinate of Eretz Israel. With five signatures, including the President R. Menachem Mendel (Alter) of Pavianitz, the Vice President R. Shlomo David Kahana of Warsaw, the Secretary R. Reuven Yehuda Neifeld of Navidvor and two others.
summary
“We are shocked, pale and bent as we stand before the bed (casket) of the Tzaddik and Gaon, shedding copious tears…”