Abraham Yehudah Khein

Abraham Yehudah Khein (1878 in Chernihiv – 5 October 1957) was a Chabad-Hasidic Rabbi in the Ukrainian town Nizhyn.

Rabbi Khein deeply respected Kropotkin, whom he called "the Tzadik of the new world", whose "soul is as pure as crystal"[2][3][4] Interpreting various passages from the Talmud, Khein posited that there was never a moment when killing was justified, no matter how guilty the party, and used this theory to advise on the Jewish-Arab conflict at the time, writing to leaders such as the militaristic Ze'ev Jabotinsky.

[5][6] Rabbi Khein's most known work is his three-volume collection of essays, במלכות היהדות ("In the Kingdom of Judaism").

[8] In 1914, after a visit to Babruysk for the wedding of his brother, Khein met with Rabbi Shmaryahu Noah Schneersohn, and subsequently switched his allegiance from the Lubavitch branch of Chabad to the Kopust branch, however, Khein would maintain a strong relationship with the Lubavitcher Rebbes.

[8] In 1933, due to mounting pressure from the Soviet Union on religious authorities, Khein fled to Danzig, and then to Paris.

I read it a second and a third time and I say to the holy author that I would like something to happen to this book, especially in my mood right now... many things within it sat well with my inner self, with my soul and spirit.

The final ideal of such an outlook necessarily requires absolute equality for everyone in everything"[15] Khein claimed to base this view off of the writings of Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the Alter Rebbe.

[16] Khein believed Judaism to be a tool that can be used in challenging governmental authority and to create an equal playing field for all humanity to operate within.

[5] However, Khein did believe Judaism required "her own portion in the world, her own private domain, her own borders," on condition that it was governed by the "strictest justice.