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Auction 24 · Lot 245
(Chief Rabbi of the Holy Land. 1865-1935)
- Estimate
- $600–$900
- Hammer price
- $500
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
KOOK, ABRAHAM ISAAC HAKOHEN
printer
25th Mar-cheshvan
Place
Jerusalem
Publication
1923
Description
Typed Letter Signed to Sir Herbert Samuel, British High Commissioner, seeking to preserve the practice of Shechitah (ritual slaughter) in Jerusalem. Five pages in Hebrew on letterhead of the Chief Rabbinate of Eretz-Israel, signed by the “President, Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook,” and the “Secretary General, Samuel Aaron Weber.”
summary
The Chief Rabbi seeks to prevent the outbreak of factionalism within the sphere of the Shechitah system, something that had never occurred throughout the years of the Old Yishuv.
On a conciliatory note, Rabbi Kook offers that his opposite number Rabbi Joseph Chaim Sonnenfeld be included as a member of the Va’ad ha-Shechitah, enabling him to make whatever suggestions he feels might contribute to improving the system