The pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.

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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