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Intel - Terrorism
Rabbi Abraham Kook

"In God we trust.
All others we monitor."

• The movement's principle mentor, Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Palestine...(Arab and Jew, p. 150)

• He wrote of Zionism as an instrument of God's plan for messianic redemption, phrasing his call for temporal activity with such aphorisms as "Man cannot fly off to Paradise merely by pronouncing his faith" and "The sacred and the secular together influence the human spirit, and man is enriched by absorbing from each whatever is suitable." (Arab and Jew, p. 150)

• But as Rabbi Hartman noted, the senior Rabbi Kook also displayed a tolerance quite foreign to the reflexes of many of his followers. "Even Rav Kook said the essence of being Jewish is to serve some universal purpose," Hartman observed. "He saw the return of the Jewish people as the first stage toward a larger, universal love in the world." (Arab and Jew, p. 150)