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Rabbinic Ordination for Rabbi Pesach Kukis by HaGaon Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, with a Copy of a Letter Recommending His Appointment as Rabbi of the Beit Vegan Neighborhood – Jerusalem, 1933 [2] letters by HaGaon Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Rosh Yeshiva of Chevron Yeshiva “Knesses Yisrael” in Jerusalem, containing words of ordination and recommendation. Jerusalem, Tammuz 1933. *  הנני להכיר בזה, את כבוד ידי”נ הרב הגאון הנעלה חריף ובקי אור הברקי מוה' פסח קאקוס שליט”א אשר הסתופף בצל ישיבתנו ה”ק, וגדל והצליח [1] leaf, official stationery, 27 cm, in the Holy Handwriting, signature, and stamp of Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Av Beis Din and Rosh Mesivta of Chevron Yeshiva ‘Knesses Yisrael’ in Jerusalem. This letter was printed in the Sefer Birkat Pesach (Jerusalem, 2010), p. 29. Fold marks, stains. Fair condition. * וכאשר הנני מכיר את כבוד הרב הג' הנ”ל בתורה, כי הוא גדול בישראל בבקיאות ובחריפות ובהמעלות שמנו חכמים במי שעל שכמו עבודת הקודש להורות את עם ישראל... ע”כ הני פונה לכבודו ולכל אנשי העדה שישימו נא כתר הרבנות דמחנם עליו Letter by HaGaon Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein to Rabbi M. Z. Allen and the community of Beit Vegan. [1] leaf, 28 cm, typed copy of a letter. This letter was printed in Birkat Pesach (Jerusalem, 2010), pp. 32–33. Fold marks, tears, repairs. Fair condition. Rabbi Pesach Ben Reb Ze’ev Kukis (1903–1981) – President of the Bat Yam Yeshiva and Chief Rabbi of Bat Yam for more than forty years, son-in-law of the renowned Jerusalem scholar Rabbi Rafael Katzenelnbogen. A student of Knesses Beis Yitzchak, he immigrated to Eretz Yisrael in 1925, studied at Beis Yosef Yeshiva in Chevron, and survived the terrible massacre of the 1929 riots. In 1930, he was among the founders of Heichal HaTalmud Yeshiva in Tel Aviv. He served as Rabbi of Bat Yam from its founding. His biography appears in the Sefer Birkat HaPesach.