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Recipient : Mr. Frank. Mr. Frank is clearly a high-level administrator at the Jewish Colonization Association (Hebrew acronym – Yaka), the organization which was in charge of running the operations of the moshavot which Baron Edmond De Rothschild owned and supported in Eretz Yisrael. We have no other information on him.
Body : I am turning to your excellency with this letter as an inquiry on a matter that effects the totality of the Jewish settlement in Eretz Yisrael. Therefore, I hope that you will be so kind as to respond at the earliest possible time with information on the matter.
You should be aware that after the year of 5669, which should come upon us in the best possible way, the following year of 5670, will be the "seventh year," which according to the laws of our holy Torah, is the shemitta year (in which agricultural work on the land of Eretz Yisrael is forbidden). The most brilliant Torah scholars of the generations before us, to whom the question [of how to handle the nascent agricultural settlements] about the yishuv came, found only one solution to continue to work the land, without a religious impediment. That is to make a sales document to sell the land and the trees, using a known formula, which works religiously, to a non-Jew (this is known as heter mechira).
Igrot Hare’aya (200)
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
108 - Weddings in Shuls
109 - Baron Rothschild and the Heter Mechira
110 - Jewish Art – The Positive and Halachic Care
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Before the previous shemitta year, there was a special authorization from Baron Rothschild and Mr. Borwin, in whose name the land was registered; they authorized Mr. Pariente to carry out the sale. Therefore, I am confident that if the matter requires certain steps, the honorable baron will definitely fulfill this holy obligation again, which is necessary to facilitate the arrangement that enables work to be done in the yishuv during the shemitta year in a way that does not conflict with the holy Torah. This solution not only is important religiously, but it is also needed to handle the practical and, especially, commercial concerns. Without this, it will be totally forbidden to sell fruit, wine, and all the produce that grows in the Land, in addition to the fact that it will be forbidden to work the land.
You may require clarification of the matter in a deeper manner. I can do that for you; let me know if you would like me to clarify matters further orally in person or by written correspondence.
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
P'ninat Mishpat Profits from Formerly Joint Swimming Pool – part
(based on ruling 81110 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
P'ninat Mishpat Limits of Interest Rate for Loan with Heter Iska – part II
based on ruling 80033 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
P'ninat Mishpat P'ninat Mishpat: Multiple Agreements and Parties – part IV
based on final ruling of 80082 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
P'ninat Mishpat Who Breached the Contract? – part IV
Based on ruling 81087 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
Igrot Hare’aya Excerpts of Letter on Shemitta – #289 – part II
Date and Place: 6 Nisan 5670 (1910), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya Informing a Friend he Is Not Insulted – #320
Date and Place: 5 Menachem Av 5670 (1910), Rechovot (probably)
Igrot Hare’aya Refuting Criticism by the Ridbaz – #311 – part III
Date and Place: 19 Sivan 5670 (1910), Yafo
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Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
