Abraham Isaac Kook was born in Grivain the Courland Governorate of the Russian Empire in 1865, today a part of Latvia, the oldest of eight children. His father, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ha-Cohen Kook, was a student of the Volozhin yeshiva, the “mother of the Lithuanian yeshivas”, whereas his maternal grandfather was an avid follower of the Hasidic movement, founded by the son of the great Rabbi of Chabad, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn of Lubavitch, known as the “Tzemach Tzedek”. As a child he gained a reputation of being a prodigy. He entered the Volozhin Yeshiva in 1884 at the age of 18. During his time in the yeshiva, he studied under Rabbi Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim (also known as the Aderet), the rabbi of Ponevezh and later Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Jerusalem. Wiki
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