Rav Kook

Rav Kook: The Mystic Chief Rabbi Who Embraced Secular Zionists

Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) was the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine and one of the most original Jewish thinkers of the modern era. His mystical vision saw holiness in secular Zionists, beauty in the physical rebuilding of the land, and divine purpose in the return of the Jewish people to Israel.