Rav Kook Symposium
Arutz Sheva has an excellent post on Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935):
(IsraelNN.com) As part of the ongoing commemorations of the 73rd anniversary of the death of the saintly Rabbi A. I. HaCohen Kook, the Beit HaRav museum/educational center will sponsor a symposium on the topic of Modern-Day Teshuvah this Wednesday evening.Speakers such as Rabbi Yaakov Filber, Michi Yosefi, and others will address the relationship between the philosophies of Rabbi Kook and Rebbe Nachman of Breslov. ...
Go to the link for excerpts from the speakers' comments. For background, here's Wikipedia on Rav Kook:
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. ...
See also: Rabbi Chanan Morrison's Rav Kook site.


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