3 Quotes & Sayings By Abraham Isaac Kook

Abraham Isaac Kook was born in 1864 in Jerusalem, Palestine, to a distinguished rabbinic family. He studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and at Columbia University, where he earned his doctorate in 1896. In 1893, while still a student, he began to study the general principles of philosophy under Charles Hodge and William R. Torrey at Princeton Theological Seminary Read more

In 1894 he was ordained a rabbi by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. After completing his studies, he served as rabbi of Congregation Shaarei Zion in Montreal from 1897 to 1900 and as rabbi of the Conservative Beth Jacob Congregation in Philadelphia from 1900 to 1917. In 1917 he became president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati where he served until his retirement in 1938.

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Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, noblest and freest light. Abraham Isaac Kook
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The good will is all – and all the talents are ways to fulfill it. Abraham Isaac Kook