Reply To: Lo sichanem

Avi, rabbi kook loved lots of things. He called Rembrandt, a proste goy,a “tzadik” because he happened to draw a portrait of the tosfos yom tov. His hashkofos are not mainstream. His son’s aren’t either.

Where do chazal say to love goyim?

You are correct that chazal say that we do those things, visiting sick, tzedaka… doesn’t say it’s a mitzvah. It says it keeps the peace. Keeping peace is a huge deal.

Davening for someone because you have hakaras hatov is also not b’chinam, and that might include a non Jewish soldier as well. No chiddush there.

The magen avrohom stands, against….rabbi kook? Sorry, doesn’t work that way.