‘Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going... lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and go…
Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionist Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, Jewish thinker, Halachist, Kabbalist and a renowned Torah scholar. He is known in Hebrew as הרב אברהם יצחק הכהן קוק HaRav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, and by the acronym HaRaAYaH or simply as "HaRav. " He was one of the most celebrated and influential Rabbis of the 20th century.






















