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Body: For some time now, the Teimanim (Yemenite Jews, who were workers rather than landowners in Rechovot) have been bothering me about taking care of their issues in the moshava (Rechovot). Although it seems to me that it is proper that the council should appoint representatives from among them to deal with the moshava’s relations with them, it is not right to appoint spiritual leaders in a manner that is not for their benefit. It would be better and more pleasant that their adjudication and matters of their divorces and marriages, when there are any questions about them, should make use of our central services, so that their matters will be handled with greater honor.
Among [the issues at hand], they should not be allowed to take a second wife, unless they bring a letter from us (the established Rabbinate) that there is no halachic impediment to their doing so. I request of the council to inform me of the details of the matters [at hand], and what are the most important disputes they are involved in, as it is difficult for me to get clear information from them.
Regarding the dispute of the scholar Avraham, concerning his sefer Torah, I already decided on this matter this past summer. Three Shabbatot a month, R. Avraham will get to decide who will receive honors, and one Shabbat a month, the community will decide who receives them.
Igrot Hare’aya (200)
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
158 - Printing of Shabbat Ha’aretz and Preparing for Parents’ Arrival – #246
159 - Difficult to Understand a Rabbi’s Ruling
160 - Teimanim in Rechovot – #258
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Date and Place: 3 Shevat 5670 (1910), Yafo
Recipient: Rav Yaakov Moshe Charlop. Rav Charlop, who became very close with Rav Kook, was an outstanding scholar in Yerushalayim and the rabbi of the Shaarei Chesed neighborhood. He later became the Rosh Yeshiva of Merkaz Harav.
Body: I have a request of you, concerning my hope for the sake of Hashem’s Name, that I will succeed in establishing a group of talented young men here, in the holy city [of Yafo]. The plan is to lead them in the ways of Hashem, in true fear of Heaven with a healthy course of study, and prepare them to have an impact in matters of holiness, with an approach of rectitude of the heart, a brave spirit, internal serenity, and charm and honor in their approach to life.
At this point, we will be able to accept four young men [from Yerushalayim], if they are talented enough. Together with some talented young men on some level who are here (Yafo and/or the region), there will be a foundation to gather everyone together for this holy undertaking with divine grace. I am turning to you, my respected friend – if there are not pressing matters that prevent this, such as the current situation (ed. note- I am unaware what specifically he was referring to), to please write to me the names of some talented young men that you know, especially if they are likely to agree to come. Then we can try to bring the matter to fruition, and the merit that the masses will have will be credited to you.
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
P'ninat Mishpat Payments after a Gradual End of Employment
(Based on ruling 82024 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
Igrot Hare’aya Trying to Arrange Purchase of Land in Eretz Yisrael – part II
#229 Date and Place: 13 Tishrei 5670 (1909), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya Trying to Arrange Purchase of Land in Eretz Yisrael
#222 Date and Place: 2 Elul 5669 (1909), Rechovot
Igrot Hare’aya Departure of an Uncle to Eretz Yisrael
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook: Vol. I, #1 , p. 1-2 – part II
Igrot Hare’aya Informing a Friend he Is Not Insulted – #320
Date and Place: 5 Menachem Av 5670 (1910), Rechovot (probably)
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 Maintaining a Friendship of the Spirit – #266 – part II
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook, Date and Place: 11 Shevat 5670, Yafo
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
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
