Beit Midrash
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- Chemdat Yamim
- Igrot Hare’aya
Body: My dear brothers, I received a letter that tells that the matter of house of prayer is very complicated in your dear moshava and that this is disgracing the honor of our holy Torah and generally the honor of Heaven and everything that is holy in Israel. Therefore, I am hereby coming to arouse your generous spirit, that you shall grasp all means at your disposal and put an end to this terrible disgrace by setting aside a place for Hashem in some respectable house to be used for prayer every day and especially Shabbat and the holidays.
Igrot Hare’aya (200)
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
187 - Trying to Arrange Purchase of Land in Eretz Yisrael – part II
188 - A Beit Knesset for Chadera
189 - Allow Farmers to Not Work during Shemitta
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Helping Shemitta Observers – #235
Date and Place: 23 Marcheshvan 5669, Yafo
Recipient: Rav Chaim Berlin (son of the Netziv, Rav Kook’s rosh yeshiva in Volozhin), former Chief Rabbi of Moscow, and, at the time, assistant to Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Rav Shmuel Salant.
Body: There are some farmers who desire with all their hearts to desist from working the land during the Shemitta year, without making any use of the leniency of uprooting the sanctity of the Land as is commonly practiced. However, they will be able to do this only if they will be confident that they will receive help with their livelihood.
There are presently two people in Kostina (now, Be’er Tuvia in the south of Israel), who will need, in order to desist from agricultural work, 120 Napoleon gold coins. If they will be confident about receiving this amount, they will fulfill the [rules of the] Shabbat of the Land to the fullest degree, the way the Torah spells it out. Therefore, I want to make you, esteemed rabbi, aware, so that maybe you can find a financial source, together with other helpers, for this work for the sake of Heaven.
I do not need to write at length about the importance of this matter, certainly not to someone like you (Rav Berlin did not accept the Heter Mechira.) I would like to receive a clear response shortly, preferably by telegram, because the time to work the land has come, and they need to know their situation.
Public Letter on Observance of Shemitta – #287 – part II
Date and Place: 4 Nisan 5670 (1910), Yafo
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit | Kislev 5785
Deflecting Criticism – #291
Date and Place: 12 Nisan 5670 (1910), Yafo
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit | Shevat 5785
Keeping Shemitta Partially – #272
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook; Date and Place: 2 Adar I 5670 (1910), Yafo
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit | Tishrei 5785
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
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit | Cheshvan 5785
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
Payments after a Gradual End of Employment
(Based on ruling 82024 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
Nissan 5783
A Commercial Rental for a Closed Business – part II
based on ruling 80047 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
Shvat 1 5782
Limits of Interest Rate for Loan with Heter Iska – part II
based on ruling 80033 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
Sivan 15 5782
