Beit Midrash
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Recipient: Shmuel Hakohen Kook, Rav Kook’s brother
Igrot Hare’aya (200)
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
82 - Interceding Regarding a Will
83 - Improving New Yishuv More Practical than Alternatives
84 - Supporting an Israeli Winery
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Regarding [the request from me of] an article to attach to the Mesilat Yesharim, that would be a job that is a very great honor, to join up with that lofty, holy author z.t.l., who was a storehouse of wisdom. I still have not decided what the proper approach is to take in that holy project. May He Who grants wisdom send me a good idea on the matter.
Let me just take the opportunity to ask you to help out on a matter of a mitzva. The messenger bringing this letter told me that his father wrote a will. From what he has heard, his father did not leave anything to the messenger’s elderly mother (except the small amount her ketuba is worth). This is a believable possibility because the relationship between the couple has always been very strange, may things like that not occur to us. If I would have known that this was happening, I would never have allowed such a will to have been written, and I would have used any type of moral coercion that I have at my disposal. It is true that this is beyond the letter of the law, but there are opinions that it is permitted to coerce according to the judgment of the dayan that this is the correct path; my practice is to do this at times. So now, it is a great mitzva to take action concerning this older gentleman, so that he will agree to change this part of the will. Let him leave the decision of [how much to leave to her] until after he has completed his long life, according to the level of honor with which he always was in the practice of supporting her.
I hope that you will take the opportunity to act on this matter as well as you can. I am sure you will forgive me for the toil involved in doing so. I am well aware of your good nature, thank G-d.
Public Letter on Observance of Shemitta – #287 – part II
Date and Place: 4 Nisan 5670 (1910), Yafo
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Date and Place: 4 Menachem Av 5670 (1910), Rechovot
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Public Response to Zealous Defense of Rav Kook – #308
Date and Place: 15 Sivan 5670 (1910), Yafo
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Maintaining a Friendship of the Spirit – #266 – part III
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook; Date and Place: 11 Shevat 5670, Yafo
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based on final ruling of 80082 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
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Trying to Arrange Purchase of Land in Eretz Yisrael – part II
#229 Date and Place: 13 Tishrei 5670 (1909), Yafo
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