Kook, R. Avrohom Yitzchak/London 1918

Kook, R. Avrohom Yitzchak/London 1918.
Autograph letter dated 1918 written during World War 1 when R. Kook found himself in exile in London. Written to the leaders of a rabbinical alliance in Egypt. R. Kook writes that he agreed to be affiliated with their group and their noble work and saw no contradiction with working together with them as well as with other groups. Thereafter follows a three page dissertation of R. Kook’s worldview in regard to the Yishuv.
R. Kook tried to build and maintain channels of communication and political alliances between the various Jewish sectors, including the secular Jewish Zionist leadership, the Religious Zionists, and traditional non-Zionist Orthodox Jews. He believed that the modern movement to re-establish a Jewish state in the land of Israel had profound theological significance and that the Zionists were agents in a heavenly plan to bring about the Messianic Era. Per this ideology, the youthful, secular and even anti-religious Labor Zionist pioneers were a part of a grand Divine process whereby the land and people of Israel were finally being redeemed from exile.
Three pages. Fine condition.21 by 26.5 cm.
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