These are recently released photos of
Harav Kook's (יא"צ ג' אלול) visit to the US and Canada in 1924. He was accompanied by the
Kovner Rov, the
Dvar Avrohom, Reb Avrohom DovBer Kahana Shapira, as well as
Rav Moshe Mordche Epstein of
Slabodka's Knesses Yisroel Yeshiva. RAYHK was already back in the Holy Land since 1919 or so, yet he made the long journey to America to help the
Yeshivos in Europe. It's ironic that many of those
Yeshivos, including
Slabodka, are quite unaware of the great help he was in saving their
Yeshiva. I would imagine that none of his
seforim and writings can be found in any of the many branches and satellites of
Slabodka, both in Israel and abroad. Yet, despite the badmouthing and brainwashing that has been going for generations his writings have enjoyed a tremendous renaissance among many
Haredim, who see him as a great visionary whose only crime may have been that he has slightly ahead of his time...
His teachings are quoted, at least verbally - we have yet to reach the stage where he'd be quoted in a Haredi sefer - and if you repeat a vort from him you may not even get a "gasp!" from the man listening to you... Rav Kook's Chabad connection is well known; his mother was a
Bas Chassidei Lubavitch, and many of his writings are based on
Chassidus Chabad, as well as
MaHaRaL. His adversaries also knew about it too, as
mentioned here many years ago. Despite the differences in opinion that he had with him and even the
Agudah, the
Frierdige Rebbe visited him - twice, I believe - when he visited
Eretz Yisroel in 5689.
with RMM Epstein and an unknown figure of authority. Wiki says that it was the Mayor of NYC that he's pictured with. Yet, According to Wikipedia, John F. Hylan was mayor of NYC at that time, and this is not him. So either I'm confusing the dates of the trip or they got it wrong. click on photos to enlarge!
On the porch of the Yeshiva D'Montreal with the Kovner Rov and RMME listening intently to RK's words.
With the KR and RMME. Note that they wore their top hats while RAYHK wore his Rabbonishe Shtreimel the whole time. I wonder if that was some kind of arrangement that they made between themselves...
A "צאתכם לשלום" poster from his Yeshiva "Mercaz HaRav."
Closeup of the porch at Yeshiva D'Montreal
with Rav Hirsh Pesach Frank, member of his Rabbinate and later Chief Rabbi of Yerushalayim. This picture is unrelated to the rest and was taken in the Holy Land.
Photos from Here and
Wikipedia
207 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 207 of 207as already said- you don't have even one of the gedolei hador alive today supporting the crazy insane and childish behaviour of niturei karata.
NK are condemmed within satmer but defended on the outside being that most cannot make a clear delineation between what the NK does and the SR's views.
1. The SR allowed voting in municipal elections and then faced pashkeviln crying "rabeinu sor min haderech"...
2. The arabs once went to protest against the tzioinim in Manhattan, I believe, on a day that the SR had organized a protest. The SR was informed of the arab protest wile already on the bus. He turned around and went home, he would not be seen protesting WITH goyim against the medina!
Unlike NK of today, r"l.
Anon said:
“To list a few of the Gedolei Torah alive today who publicly state their knowledge that Rav Kook was a Gadol b'torah and Tzadik: Rav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, Rav Simcha Kook (Chief Rabbi of Rechovot), Rav Ovadia Yosef, Rav Shmuel Auerbach, Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky, Rav Dovid Feinstein.”
! ערבי ערבי צריך
r shmuel kamenetzkty
r dovid feinstein
for starters, lets see a quote, forget a ksav yad...
doesnt exist.
B"H you don't have to take anyone's word. Just pull out that cell phone in your pocket and call the Gedolim, to make the five minute phone call to confirm.
Anon
"how right the sages where I'm guilty of answering you 1-2-3 times and you want me to continue? !"
in the world of answers this is not a answer, it is a nice possuk in Mishli, but still no answer
A little late to the party but it is important to mention. When the Rebbe Rayatz was first taken to prison, Rav Kook sent a letter to the head of the JDC who then sent a letter to a top Russian official and it is believed that this played an integral role in the Rayatz's eventual release.. In his book Larger than Life, R' Shaul Shimon Deutsch Bringd an actual copy of this letter.
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