„...after a prolonged battle with cancer, there passed away the one wh…”

"The Rav."

This is how he asked to be called, and he insisted that no superfluous titles of honor be added to his name.

Throughout his life the Rav fought for the unity of the Israeli public: religious, Haredi, and general Jewry. He sought to shatter the idols (as he called them in his essay "Masa HaMachanot," written close to his death) of "religious and secular," asking that we stop labeling one another and become human beings. That we build together the "stature of the human" in reality.

Rav Kook absorbed no small measure of insults because of his unique path, but it served, and still serves, as a lighthouse for many, both in his life and especially after his death.