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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.
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
Igrot Hare’aya Raffle of Property in Eretz Yisrael for Tzedaka
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook: – #220
Igrot Hare’aya Connecting Disciplines in Torah Study
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook 103 – part III
P'ninat Mishpat A Commercial Rental for a Closed Business – part II
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P'ninat Mishpat Who Breached the Contract? – part IV
Based on ruling 81087 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
Igrot Hare’aya Language of Instruction for Rav Kook’s Yeshiva – #325
Date and Place: 4 Elul 5670 (1910), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya Excerpts of Letter on Shemitta – #289 – part I
Date and Place: 6 Nisan 5670 (1910), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya Involving Baron Rothschild in Religious Efforts – #278
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook Date and Place: 14 Adar 5670 (1910), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya The State of Religion in Eretz Yisrael – #277 – part II
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook Date and Place: 9 Adar I 5670 (1910), Yafo
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