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|publisher=Beit Shamai Publications}}</ref> in the [[Courland Governorate]] of the [[Russian Empire]] in 1865, today a part of [[Daugavpils]], [[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 Jews|Lithuanian]] [[yeshiva]]s",<ref>{{cite book|author=William B. Helmreich
|title=The World of the Yeshiva: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zjfPA1NZFbgC&pg=PA7
|access-date=21 September 2011|date=February 2000 |publisher=KTAV Publishing House, Inc.|isbn=978-0-88125-641-3|pages=6–8}}</ref> whereas his maternal grandfather was an avid follower of the [[Kapust]] branch of the [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic movement]], founded by the son of the great Rabbi of [[Chabad]],
As a child he gained a reputation of being an ''[[ilui]]'' ([[child prodigy|prodigy]]). He entered the [[Volozhin Yeshiva]] in 1884 at the age of 18, where he became close to the ''[[rosh yeshiva]]'', Rabbi [[Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin]] (the ''Netziv''). Although he stayed at the yeshiva for only a year and a half, the Netziv has been quoted as saying that if the Volozhin yeshiva had been founded just to educate Rav Kook, it would have been worthwhile. During his time in the yeshiva, he studied under Rabbi [[Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim]] (also known as the ''Aderet''), the rabbi of [[Ponevezh]] (today's [[Panevėžys]], [[Lithuania]]) and later Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of [[Jerusalem]]. In 1886 he married Batsheva, the daughter of the Aderet.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hevratpinto.org/tzadikim_eng/143_rabbi_eliyahu_david_rabinowitz.html|title=Rabbi Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim • "The Aderet"|website=www.hevratpinto.org|access-date=2018-09-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thelehrhaus.com/scholarship/the-hasidism-of-rav-kook/|title=The Hasidism of Rav Kook {{!}} The Lehrhaus|website=www.thelehrhaus.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-09-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ravkooktorah.org/timeline.htm|title=Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook (1865-1935)|website=www.ravkooktorah.org|language=en|access-date=2018-09-12}}</ref>
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