This group has sadly determined the current State of Religious Zionism. This romantic and sanitized image of Rav Kook as any model, let alone a leading light for the few remnant champions of ...

Recently, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935), the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Eretz Yisrael, has returned to public discussion. Former MK Tehila Friedman, in a featured Times of Israel blog ...

As Purim approaches, it is an appropriate time to review Rabbi Kook’s teachings on Ahavah (love) which is one of the features of the holiday, highlighted by gifts of money to the poor and gifts ...

Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook ZT”L (1865-1935) was and through his teachings and his students is still the Cohen Gadol-High Priest of our return. In 1910 while he was the Chief Rabbi of ...

In addition to the classes he taught in the yeshiva, students visited his home for classes in Emunah and in the prolific writings of his father, Rabbi Kook, who taught the early pioneer generation ...

Construction in Shiloh settlement (credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST) Rav Abraham Isaac Kook beautifully develops this idea by explaining Joseph’s unique role in Jewish history.