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{{Short description|Lithuanian rabbi (1887–1972)}}
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{{Infobox Jewish leader
| honorific-prefix = Rabbi
| name = David Cohen
| image = Rabbi David Cohen.png
| title =
| birth_date = 1887 <!-- Previously said September 1884, without any source -->
| birth_place = [[Maišiagala]], [[Russian Empire]]
| death_date = 8 August 1972
| buried = [[Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery]]
| denomination = [[Orthodox Judaism]]
| children = [[She'ar Yashuv Cohen|She'ar Yashuv]], Tzipiah
| students = [[She'ar Yashuv Cohen|She'ar Yashuv]], Rabbi [[Shlomo Goren]], Rabbi Yosef Toledano, Rabbi [[Yaakov Ariel]]
}}
'''David Cohen''' (1887–8 August 1972)<ref>{{cite web |title=The Tomb of David Cohen - Rav Ha-Nazir |url=http://allaboutjerusalem.com/gallery-image/tomb-david-cohen-rav-ha-nazir/203 |website=allaboutjerusalem.com |publisher=Jerusalem photo archive - AAJ |accessdate=8 May 2019}}</ref> (also known as "Rav Ha-Nazir," the [[Nazirite]] [[Rabbi]]) was a [[rabbi]], [[talmud]]ist, [[philosopher]], [[Kabbalah|kabbalist]], and a disciple of Rabbi [[Abraham Isaac Kook]]. A noted [[Asceticism in Judaism|Jewish ascetic]], he took a [[Nazirite]] vow at the outbreak of [[World War I]].


==Education==
My name is Jakub Bence and I am 24 years old.
Cohen was born in [[Maišiagala]], near [[Vilna]] (in modern [[Lithuania]]), the scion of a distinguished rabbinic family. In his youth he studied at the [[Raduń Yeshiva]] under Rabbi [[Yisrael Meir Kagan]], at the [[Volozhin yeshiva]], and at the [[Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka)|yeshiva]] in [[Vilijampolė|Slabodka]]. Even at that time, his restless and inquiring mind led him to extend his studies beyond the traditional subjects taught in the yeshivot. Thus he turned to Rabbi [[Samson Raphael Hirsch]] and the early writings of Rabbi [[Abraham Isaac Kook]]. He also studied [[Russian language|Russian]] to prepare himself for entrance to the university.{{cn|date=November 2021}}


During the [[Russian Revolution of 1905]] he was twice arrested but was not detained. His spiritual unrest and the desire to widen his intellectual horizon led him to enroll in the Academy for Jewish Studies established by Baron [[David Guenzburg]], where one of his close fellow students was [[Zalman Shazar]], later president of Israel. From there he proceeded to Germany to study at the [[University of Freiburg]]. At the outbreak of [[World War I]] he was interned as an enemy alien, but was released and made his way to Basel, Switzerland, where he became involved in the Jewish Community while continuing studying Torah and also studying philosophy, classical literature, and Roman law at the University of Basel.{{cn|date=November 2021}}
On May 24, I was abducted by a spaceship or something called a UFO


He was for a time chairman of the Jewish Students' Society there and delivered lectures on Jewish philosophy. It was then that he took upon himself a lifelong [[Nazirite]] vow, which involves complete abstention from cutting one's hair and partaking of any products of the vine. However, his personal asceticism went further: he became vegetarian, eschewing not only meat but also any garment made of leather, and practised self-imposed silence vows (referred to in Hebrew as "Speech Fasts") on a regular basis. A weekly silence every Shabbat; a monthly silence every Rosh Hodesh Eve (''Yom Kippur Katan''), and the highlight - an annual silence period of 41 days from Erev Rosh Hodesh Elul to the end of Yom Kippur. In addition, despite being proficient in [9] languages, he refused to speak anything but the Holy Language - Hebrew. Additionally, from the capture of the Old City of Jerusalem by the Jordanians in [[1947–1949 Palestine war]] until the capture by the IDF in the Six-Day War (1967), he vowed not to leave his home. Finally, since Israel's independence (1948), he vowed not to leave the Holy City of Jerusalem and, in fact, left Jerusalem only on 3 occasions after that (24 years until his passing), with each such departure being formally approved by a special Beith Din (a Rabbinical Court) granting him temporary permission to depart from his undertaking. However, he was not a recluse and was extremely warm, welcoming and respectful towards any person who came to see him, regardless of this person's status, age, or in many cases, eccentricities. Rabbi Cohen was fully aware of the day-to-day occurrences in Israel and did not hesitate to publicly express his views on important topical issues.{{cn|date=November 2021}}
24.5 at 16:36 I went with my girlfriend to walk in the woods somewhere by the water.


==Meeting Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook==
We went deep into the woods ... Very far from the house and the people.
The turning point in his life came with his meeting, on 29 Av, with [[Abraham Isaac Kook|Rabbi Kook]], who was then in [[St. Gallen]] in Switzerland (1915). "My life then stood in the balance," he noted. "I listened to him and was turned into a new man. ... I had found a master." He decided to abandon his secular studies and devote himself entirely to Jewish thought.<ref>Introduction to ''Orot HaKodesh'', edited by Cohen</ref>
My girlfriend said she was going to bounce. I let her go and just waited for her to return. After about 3 minutes, my girlfriend came to see me and saw something strange and literally scary.
My friend's words: As you know, I should have returned. After about 3 minutes, I returned to my friend. When I arrived, I saw a terrible doctor, my friend staring into the air as if he saw something interesting. I only heard strange sounds coming from the sky above me, but she saw nothing.
I tried to talk to my friend for about a minute, I was scared. I talked and knocked on him. But nothing happened and he just stood still and looked up at the sky.
After about 2 minutes, I remembered that I had forgotten that I had left my cell phone and wallet where I had bounced. So I thought my friend wouldn't move, so he wasn't going anywhere, and that when I got back, I'd call someone. But when I came back, I only saw my friend's things lying on the ground where he was standing. I WAS scared !!
I only saw his things on the ground and I also noticed anything else that there are also traces of my friend standing still. There were also things like: Underwear, socks, shoes, a T-shirt, shorts and also his bracelet he wears for good luck.
I immediately ran back to my house. There I called the shelf and told them everything. About 5 days after my friend disappeared, there was fat on the barracks door. I thought it was probably the police because they knocked on the door at about 1:30 p.m.
But he was my friend, so I was happy and immediately hugged him.
He was also stunned and frightened. I wonder if he remembers where he lives and where he was.
I immediately asked him what had happened, but he said he didn't remember anything, and he also said he saw some interesting creature slowly coming to him. He also told me that he could do nothing and that he could not move. He also said he saw a UFO or ship approaching.
The ship pulled him up and there was nothing he could do, and an interesting light shone on him, glowing his white flesh. After being pulled out, it fogged before his eyes and then he doesn't remember anything ....
After 3 days after Jakub Bence returned home, a phone suddenly rings in which a boy named Joshamy Gilbeking called. He said that he was a sheriff and that he was killing the mystery of the disappearance of Jakub Bence, who met on May 24.
According to the sheriff, it was only crazy, but the opposite was true.


In 1922 he received an invitation from Rabbi Kook, who had returned to the Land of [[Israel]], to become a tutor in the yeshiva which he had established. He helped draw up the curriculum, which was also to include history, philosophy, ethics, Hebrew grammar, and Bible. He was appointed lecturer in Talmud, ethics, and philosophy.{{cn|date=November 2021}}
On June 6, Jakub arrived at the sheriff's station where journalists were waiting for him and there were also people waiting to deal with these things.

Jakub told them all the things he remembered, but it didn't matter that he was somewhere in a ship that soared into the sky and pulled him inside.
The two used to meet daily, and Rabbi Kook entrusted him with the editing of his philosophical works, to which, along with disseminating Kook's ideas, he dedicated his life, hardly publishing any of his own works, although he left over 30 works in manuscript. The principal exception was the ''Kol Nevu'ah'', of which the first volume appeared shortly before his death. It is in two parts, "The Foundations of Jewish Religious Philosophy" and "The Foundations of Inner Wisdom."
But suddenly comes a man who said his name was Petr Donalf and he was born on September 24, 1979 and he said that on April 16, 1996 he walked with his dog right in the forest where Jakub Bence got lost. Rikal suddenly began his dog barking and whining. He said he probably saw something there and immediately saw what the dog was barking at, but it was a mistake. Suddenly time stopped and diva emotion entered the man's heart. The dog suddenly decided to run away from the place where he went with his panic. So Panicek, the man Petr, let his dog go so he wouldn't bother him unnecessarily. But Peter was not afraid of his trespass and remained in his place. Rikal said that his head started to hurt, that his heart would not beat, but he only hinted at it. On April 16, a woman named Katara called on the shelf, shouting that she heard a strange sound from the forest next to his barracks. She immediately ran to the forest with her boyfriend, but only saw things like a man, such as underwear, etc. But she also said that she saw a strange ship soaring in the sky directly above her. A friend said they should go away right away, but the woman didn't respond. The man behaved bravely and took the woman on his back and fled back to his house. They locked the door and waited for what would happen. But nothing happened .
== Personal life ==
On May 21, Qatar saw a man coming out of the forest where on May 16 there was a strange scream, but there was one hack. The man who came out of the forest was literally without clothes and just squirmed and slowly climbed out of the forest.
Cohen was married to his cousin, Sarah Cohen (Etkin) and had a daughter and a son: Zfia Goren (who married Rabbi [[Shlomo Goren]], a chief rabbi of Israel), and Rabbi [[She'ar Yashuv Cohen]], a chief rabbi of [[Haifa]]. Cohen, his wife and his children were vegetarian.<ref>Caravella, Miriam Bokser. (2003). ''The Holy Name: Mysticism in Judaism''. Radha Soami Satsang Beas. p. 245. {{ISBN|9788182560291}}</ref>
The woman said that he was just a jerk and that she would like to stay at home.

But after a while, she noticed that she was one neighbor. So her name was Peter, and she went out of the house, and said, Going in.
Cohen's [[Yahrzeit]] is on the 28th of [[Av (month)|Av]].
But the man doesn't remember anything and left the house right away.

The woman immediately called the police, but the police told the woman that it was just a man who did
In 1977, a three-volume [[Festschrift]] entitled ''Nezir Ehav'' was published in his memory.

==See also==
* [[Jewish vegetarianism]]

==References==
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===General references===
* {{cite web |title=Rav David Cohen |url=http://www.yeshivavolozhin.org/rav-david-cohen/ |publisher=Yeshiva Volozhin |accessdate=8 May 2019}}

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Latest revision as of 20:22, 5 June 2024

For other people named David Cohen, see David Cohen (disambiguation).
Rabbi
David Cohen
Personal life
Born1887
Maišiagala, Russian Empire
Died8 August 1972
ChildrenShe'ar Yashuv, Tzipiah
Religious life
ReligionJudaism
DenominationOrthodox Judaism

David Cohen (1887–8 August 1972)[1] (also known as "Rav Ha-Nazir," the Nazirite Rabbi) was a rabbi, talmudist, philosopher, kabbalist, and a disciple of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. A noted Jewish ascetic, he took a Nazirite vow at the outbreak of World War I.

Education

[edit]

Cohen was born in Maišiagala, near Vilna (in modern Lithuania), the scion of a distinguished rabbinic family. In his youth he studied at the Raduń Yeshiva under Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan, at the Volozhin yeshiva, and at the yeshiva in Slabodka. Even at that time, his restless and inquiring mind led him to extend his studies beyond the traditional subjects taught in the yeshivot. Thus he turned to Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and the early writings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. He also studied Russian to prepare himself for entrance to the university.[citation needed]

During the Russian Revolution of 1905 he was twice arrested but was not detained. His spiritual unrest and the desire to widen his intellectual horizon led him to enroll in the Academy for Jewish Studies established by Baron David Guenzburg, where one of his close fellow students was Zalman Shazar, later president of Israel. From there he proceeded to Germany to study at the University of Freiburg. At the outbreak of World War I he was interned as an enemy alien, but was released and made his way to Basel, Switzerland, where he became involved in the Jewish Community while continuing studying Torah and also studying philosophy, classical literature, and Roman law at the University of Basel.[citation needed]

He was for a time chairman of the Jewish Students' Society there and delivered lectures on Jewish philosophy. It was then that he took upon himself a lifelong Nazirite vow, which involves complete abstention from cutting one's hair and partaking of any products of the vine. However, his personal asceticism went further: he became vegetarian, eschewing not only meat but also any garment made of leather, and practised self-imposed silence vows (referred to in Hebrew as "Speech Fasts") on a regular basis. A weekly silence every Shabbat; a monthly silence every Rosh Hodesh Eve (Yom Kippur Katan), and the highlight - an annual silence period of 41 days from Erev Rosh Hodesh Elul to the end of Yom Kippur. In addition, despite being proficient in [9] languages, he refused to speak anything but the Holy Language - Hebrew. Additionally, from the capture of the Old City of Jerusalem by the Jordanians in 1947–1949 Palestine war until the capture by the IDF in the Six-Day War (1967), he vowed not to leave his home. Finally, since Israel's independence (1948), he vowed not to leave the Holy City of Jerusalem and, in fact, left Jerusalem only on 3 occasions after that (24 years until his passing), with each such departure being formally approved by a special Beith Din (a Rabbinical Court) granting him temporary permission to depart from his undertaking. However, he was not a recluse and was extremely warm, welcoming and respectful towards any person who came to see him, regardless of this person's status, age, or in many cases, eccentricities. Rabbi Cohen was fully aware of the day-to-day occurrences in Israel and did not hesitate to publicly express his views on important topical issues.[citation needed]

Meeting Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook

[edit]

The turning point in his life came with his meeting, on 29 Av, with Rabbi Kook, who was then in St. Gallen in Switzerland (1915). "My life then stood in the balance," he noted. "I listened to him and was turned into a new man. ... I had found a master." He decided to abandon his secular studies and devote himself entirely to Jewish thought.[2]

In 1922 he received an invitation from Rabbi Kook, who had returned to the Land of Israel, to become a tutor in the yeshiva which he had established. He helped draw up the curriculum, which was also to include history, philosophy, ethics, Hebrew grammar, and Bible. He was appointed lecturer in Talmud, ethics, and philosophy.[citation needed]

The two used to meet daily, and Rabbi Kook entrusted him with the editing of his philosophical works, to which, along with disseminating Kook's ideas, he dedicated his life, hardly publishing any of his own works, although he left over 30 works in manuscript. The principal exception was the Kol Nevu'ah, of which the first volume appeared shortly before his death. It is in two parts, "The Foundations of Jewish Religious Philosophy" and "The Foundations of Inner Wisdom."

Personal life

[edit]

Cohen was married to his cousin, Sarah Cohen (Etkin) and had a daughter and a son: Zfia Goren (who married Rabbi Shlomo Goren, a chief rabbi of Israel), and Rabbi She'ar Yashuv Cohen, a chief rabbi of Haifa. Cohen, his wife and his children were vegetarian.[3]

Cohen's Yahrzeit is on the 28th of Av.

In 1977, a three-volume Festschrift entitled Nezir Ehav was published in his memory.

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "The Tomb of David Cohen - Rav Ha-Nazir". allaboutjerusalem.com. Jerusalem photo archive - AAJ. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  2. ^ Introduction to Orot HaKodesh, edited by Cohen
  3. ^ Caravella, Miriam Bokser. (2003). The Holy Name: Mysticism in Judaism. Radha Soami Satsang Beas. p. 245. ISBN 9788182560291

General references

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