Rav Abraham Isaac Kook

First Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Mandate Palestine, mystic of evolution: read Luria through Hegel and Darwin — all reality ascending, the secular pioneers unknowingly carrying holy sparks, teshuvah as cosmic homing instinct, lights of chaos seeking vessels of tolerance. His notebooks (Orot, Orot ha-Kodesh) are the tradition's most sustained embrace of modernity as itself a mystical event.