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Yoreh Yoreh Yadin Yadin! A rare handwritten and signed Semicha from Harav Kook. 1935
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Yoreh Yoreh Yadin Yadin! A rare handwritten and signed Semicha from Harav Kook. 1935
Early rabbinic ordination certificate, lengthy and rare, entirely handwritten and signed by the first chief rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook. 1935.
The ordination certificate was written for Rabbi Shmuel Abramowitz (son-in-law of Rabbi Avraham yitzchak Tikochinsky who served as Rabbi of the Mekor Chaim neighborhood in Jerusalem).
In the ordination certificate before us, Rabbi Kook employs his golden lyrical language to enumerate the praises of the rabbi being ordained, one by one, occasionally in rhyme. This is a lyrical document reminiscent of the glory of the ancients - words of a Torah scholar that require study.
From this certificate of Rabbinic ordination, one can learn much about Rabbi Kook's perspective about how a rabbi of the Jewish people must appear, and what characteristics he must possess for such a lofty and esteemed position.
The certificate of rabbinic ordination before us was written on Rabbi Kook's official stationery from when he served as Chief Rabbi of Palestine and Ab"d of Jerusalem.
