Rav Kook was a remarkable man whose inspired vision encompassed all people, all ideas, the physical and the spiritual. He was deeply knowledgeable in Jewish law, chief rabbi for Palestinian Jewry and an extraordinary political negotiator, and above all, a spiritual luminary who made an enormous original contribution in his many essays, religious judgments, meditations, poems and letters. He is regarded as a mystic, a philosopher, even a saint, as well as a preeminent Talmudic scholar. In this class, we will explore some of his ideas and writings.