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Shabbat Parashat Bamidbar 5781Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook: Standing behind Etrog Certification# 23Date and Place 13 Elul 5665 (1905), the holy city of Yafo Recipient: Rabbi Yehuda Leib Koretz, neiro yair (may his candle give light)
None of the aspersions heard around the world about etrogim from Israel apply to etrogim to which I have attached my certification. If only the nation of Hashem, in all of the places of inhabitance, would be careful to use etrogim for the fulfillment of the mitzva specifically from the agricultural settlements of our brothers from the Desired Land. Then it would turn out that everything, with Hashem’s help, would be the most supervised and of the highest quality. The whole confusion comes from the fact that people are not at all being careful to buy specifically from the orchards of our farmers. Rather, they buy from stocks that the merchants bought from the Arabs, which have no supervision. Large amounts of our brethren’s money are going to the Arab orchard owners, as opposed to going to brothers who are toiling with the sweat of their brows to work our holy land. Therefore, it is very fitting to strengthen the hands of the workers to broaden the scope of etrog orchards in the hands of our brothers, so that the etrogim will truly be pri etz hadar (the term the Torah uses for the etrog – Vayikra 23:40), without any concern that there could be grafted etrogim in the orchard. From this, a crown of salvation will grow for the benefit of the Jewish settlement of our Holy Land. Then, the merchants will also buy from our brothers and their supervised orchards, and everyone will be receiving clearly valid etrogim. This will bring honor and splendor for our Desired Land and enable the fulfillment of this dear, beloved mitzva in the best, most suitable manner, so that we can be happy before Hashem, our G-d.
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