Nom, do you get your history from followers of rabbi kook who aggrandize every mizrachi rabbi and idolize Ben Gurion as a Jewish hero? Because most of my rebbeim were litvishe and learned from litvishe gedolim, and none of them thought highly of reines. Some shied away from talking about rabbi kook, but didn’t think he was the sort of gadol hador you make him out to be.
If reines was so big, why is he not mentioned by the chofetz chaim, rav chaim ozer, or other litvishe gedolim at all?