Abraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the (now) Religious Zionist Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, 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." Wikipedia
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Born in Greiva (now Griva), Latvia, Kook received the type of Jewish education that was customary in 19th-century Eastern Europe. www.radicaltorahthought.com/Bio%20Kook.htm
Perhaps the most difficult of personalities to portray is that of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, who had an immeasurable influence on Jewish life. www.mizrachi.org/aboutus/leaders/ravkook.asp