Eleh Mas’ei – fascinating historic journal of the trip by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook and Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld to the colonies in northern Samaria and the Galilee in the winter of 1914 to raise the banner of religion and Judaism in the Holy Land. Frankfurt, 1916. First edition, rare.
Written by Rabbi Yonatan HaLevi Ish Horowitz, one of the organizers of the trip and among its companions. Other rabbis who joined the trip were: The gaon Rabbi Y. M. Charlop; Rabbi Ben Tziyon Yadler; Rabbi Moshe Clears, Av Beit Din of Tiberias, Rabbi Marcus, Av Beit Din of Haifa; and Rabbi Avraham Leib Zilberman of Safed. Authentic historic journal, brimming with historic facts about the settlement of the Land of Israel and the state of religion in the colonies a hundred years ago.
It is fascinating to see how the two big “rivals, ” on either side of the religious barricade, the gaon Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnefeld, leader of the Old Yishuv, and Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook, leader of ‘Mizrachi, ‘ put aside all other considerations, important as they were, to join together on a long journey to influence far-flung Jews with their Torah and sanctity.
52 pp, 22 cm.
Moderate-fine condition. Aging stains. Dog-eared. Detached leaves. Tears in the margins of the title page without damage to text. Not bound.