There are free men with the spirit of a slave, and slaves whose spirit is full of freedom. He who is true to his inner self is a free man, while he whose entire life is merely a stage for what is good and beautiful in the eyes of others, is a slave.

Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook

Abraham Isaac Kook (7 September 1865 – 1 September 1935) was an Orthodox rabbi, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine, the founder of Yeshiva Mercaz HaRav Kook (The Central Universal Yeshiva), a Jewish thinker, Halakhist, 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 הראיה‬ (HaRaAYaH), or simply as HaRav. He was one of the most celebrated and influential rabbis of the 20th century.

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