the beginning of Jewish wisdom, and he was convinced that the renewal of Jewish life in Israel would produce a new generation to which would even be vouchsafed the return of the spirit of prophecy. A passionate adherent of Rabbi Kook's doctrine that the return to Zion and its various stages, of which the establishment of the State of Israel was the latest, was itself only a stage in the fulfilment of the Divine Promise that would bring about the complete Redemption and the Messianic Age, he did not hesitate to reprove those rabbis who did not accept this belief. He saw in Rabbi Moses Hayyim Luzzatto the harbinger of this redemption, pointing out that the three significant movements, Hasidism, Musar, and Haskalah, had each made certain of Luzzatto's works their classics, and he claimed that both Rabbi Kook and he himself followed his doctrines. Cohen was married to his cousin, Sarah Cohen (Etkin) and had a daughter and a son: Zfia Goren (who married Rabbi Shlomo Goren), and Rabbi She'ar Yashuv Cohen. Cohen, his wife and his children were vegetarian. 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 Jewish vegetarianism References General references 1887 births 1972 deaths People from Vilnius District Municipality People from Vilensky Uyezd Lithuanian Orthodox rabbis 20th-century Lithuanian rabbis Israeli Orthodox rabbis Kohanim writers of Rabbinic literature Jewish vegetarianism Burials at the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives