https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/reassessing-rav-kook/
While being an administrator was not his strong suit, Rav Kook was most
generous in his rabbinic duties to help the needy. He spent a lot of
time visiting the sick, regularly giving away his own household
possessions. One of his disciples, Rabbi Ya’akov Moshe Charlap, a native
Jerusalemite, regarded him as “Tzadik HaDor, the saint, who in
Kabbalistic and Hasidic doctrine, takes upon himself the uplifting of
his time, and whose soul challenges God’s energies into the world.”
It's hard to comprehend the level of a great tzaddik like Rav kook, the meshech chochma, the chofetz Chaim etc. I never met the Lubavitcher rebbe, but at the time he was acclaimed as a tzaddik.
ReplyDeleteThe most important thing about Rav Kook is that he didn't want a cult following, no Kook'niks. His service was to the entire Jewish nation
ReplyDeleteA large part know little about him, and a large part of the frum world either ignore him or accept him with a lot of reservations.
ReplyDeleteWhich is a tragedy. He was literally a lot of everything and a huge figure, respected by all the other huge figures. One wonders how many Gedolim that the Chareidi community idolize would be offended by their treatment of him.
ReplyDeleteas a posek, he was generally quite machmir,
ReplyDeletehis ideas on the renewal of the Jewish presence in Israel cannot really be taken in by the Chareidi world, as otherwise they would no longer be chareidi.
His philosophy was quite radical at times, and was even censored by his succesors.