The life and thought of a forceful figure in Israel\'s religious and political life Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential--and controversial--rabbis of the twentieth century.
The first chief rabbi of Jewish Palestine and the founding theologian of religious Zionism, he struggled to understand and shape his rev.
A visionary writer and outstanding rabbinic leader, Kook was a philosopher, mystic, poet, jurist, communal leader, and veritable saint.
The life and thought of a forceful figure in Israel\'s religious and political life Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential--and controversial--rabbis of the twentieth century