RARE English translation of an authoritative biography of one of the most celebrated and influential rabbis of the 20th century Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) - the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandatory Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionist Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, Jewish thinker, Halachist, Kabbalist and a renowned Torah scholar. Contains numerous b&w plates. 245x175mm. Illustrated Hardcover. Cover corners rubbed. Cover and spine edges slightly bumped. Binding slightly curved. Several extreme pages bottom edge slightly wavy. This extremely rare study of one of the most fascinating modern Jewish thinkers is otherwise in very good condition.