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Excuse the cultural confusion and move on to Rav Kook’s own words. Rav Kook’s predecessors in the Ashkenazic Jerusalem rabbinate-his father-in-law Rabbi Elijah David Rabinowitz-Te’omim (Aderet) and Rabbi Samuel Salant, staunch Lithuanian Mitnagdim-wore the identical fur hat. However there is an historical context to the headwear. One need merely point to the spodik, the tall fur hat perched on his head, to determine that Rav Kook viewed himself as a Hasidic rebbe. Untrained observers have the answer ready. What are the facts? How did Rav Kook himself envision the new Hasidism? Was it to be a reincarnation of the East European variety attributed to Rabbi Israel Ba‘al Shem Tov?

A cynical writer of the Agudah camp, critiquing Rav Kook’s seminal work Orot (1920), segued to the secular “tzaddik” Martin Buber and expressed fear lest there develop around Rav Kook yet another mystery religion. Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Harlap, eminent disciple of Rav Kook, wrote a letter to the Gerrer Rebbe in which he portrayed his mentor as a modern-day Hasidic master reaching out to alienated Jews in an attempt to bring them back to the fold. Both admirers and detractors understood that this charismatic teacher embodied a renewed spirituality. During Rav Kook’s lifetime, there were those who perceived him as the founder of a new Hasidic movement. It may come to many of us as a surprise that Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook also proposed a new Hasidism, but it should not. We usually associate the term “Neo-Hasidism” with thinkers such as Martin Buber, Hillel Zeitlin and Abraham Joshua Heschel. Shapiro will discuss the legacy of Rav Kook. Editors’ Note: On January 7, 2018, Lincoln Square Synagogue will host a book launch for the new Koren Rav Kook siddur, with commentary by Rabbi Bezalel Naor.

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