Rav Avigdor Miller on Rav Kook by
ALL CREDIT GOES TO Toras Avigdor print Q: Can the Rav share with us his opinion regarding Rav Kook? A: Rav Kook was certainly a frum Jew – only here we come to the mixing of the boundaries. The boundaries were overstepped. Rav Kook made a very big mistake because he prepared the way for the worse ones to come. Now, it took some time before the worst ones appeared on the scene, but the worst ones couldn’t have come if the good one hadn’t prepared the way. In those days there was no opportunity for the Va’ad Le’umi – that’s the National Council – to gain any control over religious affairs, because they were irreligious Jews. But money they had. So they were able to organize a religious council. But they needed some authority that would sanction – that would give them an entrance into Jewish religious affairs. Rabbi Kook, and I’m going to tell you now, maybe it was never published before but I heard it firsthand from the last Telzer Rav z”l – that’s the older brot...
