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Lot #    14861
Auction End Date    6/13/2006 1:26:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Rosh Milin
Title (Hebrew)    ראש מילין
Author    [First Ed.] R. Abraham Isaac Kook
City    London
Publisher    Zalkind
Publication Date    1917
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [2], 140, [2] pp. plus title wrappers, 118:90 mm., usual light age staining, pinsize worming. A good copy bound in the original title wrappers.
          
Detailed
Description		    Comentary on the Hebrew alpabet, points, ans symbols by R. Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935). R. Kook rabbinical authorit, mystic, and philosopher, was born in Greiva (now Griva), Latvia. At a very early age R. Kook showed independence of mind and far-reaching curiosity. While a student in the yeshiva in Volozhin he supplemented his traditional Talmudic education with the study of the Bible, Hebrew language, Jewish and general philosophy, and mysticism. In 1888 he was appointed rabbi of Zaumel, and in 1895 became rabbi of Bausk (now Bauska). In 1904 he immigrated to Erez Israel, where he served as rabbi of Jaffa, chief rabbi of Jerusalem, and with the formation of the chief rabbinate in 1921, as Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Palestine. R. Kook held that the return to Erez Israel marked the beginning of divine redemption (athalta di-ge'ullah). In R. Kook's system the mystical urge for unity is meant to combine the communicable with the ineffable - to infuse the physical life of man with a religious purpose. There is no stress on self-abnegation in his mysticism.
          
Paragraph 2    ... רשמי מחשבה למדרש האותיות, התגין הנקודות, והטעמים, מאת אברהם יצחק הכהן קוק (עבד לעם קדוש... בעיה"ק יפו... מתגורר כעת... תוך... קה"ק מחזיקי הדת... פה לונדון).
          
Reference
Description		    EJ; CD-EPI 0163263
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
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Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica