Letter Signed by the Rishon LeZion Rabbi Ben Zion Meir Chai Uziel, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Addressed to Rabbi Shaul Chana Kook, the Brother of Maran Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Hacohen Kook - Tel Aviv, 1929

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"ובהוצאת חידושיו הרבים והחשובים לאור" (and publishing his many and important novellae) Letter of blessings by the Rishon LeZion Rabbi Ben Zion Meir Chai Uziel, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, addressed to Rabbi Shaul Chana Kook, author of Iyunim UMechkarim for his 50th birthday – Tel Aviv, 1929.

18X24 cm.

Fld lines. Small tears. Good condition.

Rabbi Ben Zion Meir Hai Uziel, son of Rabbi Yosef Raphael (1880-1953) author of the Mishpatei Uziel, a leading disciple of the Rishon LeZion Rabbi Shaul Yaakov Elyashar, the Yissa Beracha. In his youth, his father passed away abd he was forced to work to support his mother and brother; yet nothing affected his love of the Torah. This is what he wrote referring to those days of hardship: "ימי שלוותי ואושרי היו קצרים. בהגיעי לשנת הבגרות יד ה’ היתה בי בהלקח ממני אבי ומגיני. אז אמרתי לנפשי אבדתי. כי מה יעשה נער, כערער בערבה, למצוא דרכו בחיים? אולם חסדי ה’, אבי יתומים, גברו עלי… ויהיה לי היום לעבודה והלילה לעיון". He was a Ravi in Jaffa in 1911, in Salonika in 1921 in place of Rabbi Yaakov Meir and Rabbi Emmanuel Brodo (temporarily), and then served as rav in in Tel Aviv (1923). In 1939 he was appointed the Rishon LeZion.

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