RAV KOOK ON Kedoshim Part 3: The Printer's Dilemma

“Do not take revenge nor bear a grudge against the children of your people” (Lev. 19:18) From the first Shabbat he spent after arriving in Jaffa, writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon felt himself drawn to the esteemed rabbi of Jaffa — Rav Kook. Many years later, the Nobel Prize laureate for Hebrew literature related a number of stories about Rav Kook in a collection of essays entitled “Between Me and Myself” (1976). Included is the following incident, which illustrates the scholar’s rare traits of selflessness and magnanimity.