Dear Rabbi Lamm: I am taking the liberty of sending you a copy of the introduction to the R. Kook translation which I am doing for Judaism. Dr. Schwarschild already has the translation itself; as I have only my own copy, I am not sending that herein. Are there any mis-statements or misinterpretations of the message? Any comments would be welcome. Hoping this note finds all well, I remain, Respectfully, Morton J. Merowitz. Born in the small Latvian town of Grieve in 1865(?), Abraham Isaac Kook studied in the yeshivot of Lutzin and Volozin. A distinguished student of the Law and of mysticism, R. Kook served as rabbi in Zimel and Boisk. In 1904 he settled in Palestine to serve as Chief Rabbi of Jaffe. In 1909, the shemittah problem, which had troubled the new agricultural community of the Second aliyah, was approached with boldness and erudition by Kook in his Shabbat HaAretz (Jerusalem,1909). While attending a rabbinic conference in Europe in 1914, R. Kook was forced to remain in England for the duration of the War. Returning in 1919 to serve as Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, R. Kook remained in the presence and at the core of the Palestinian society so dear to him. Despite a mystical view of the nature of Jewish history and a rather unsystematic philosophic terminology, R. Kook, who served as the first Chief Rabbi of Ashkenazic Jewry from 1921 until his death in 1935, was beloved by all factions and persons.theOne of the more noteworthy cultural milestones of/nre-State yishuv was the long awaited onening of the Hebrew University. The event,held on Wednesday,Anril 1,1925 attracted more than seven thousand persons to the *campus’ of the school which consisted of a remodeled house,"a copner-domed wing" and a specially constructed ampitheatre. Present were Dr. Chaim Weizmann (who had laid the cornerstone on July 24,1918) President of the World Zionist Congress,Sir Arthur Balfour who delivered the main address, Chayim Nachman Bialik and others. Among the less noted speeches o…