In his ruthless candor, in his loathing of acquisitiveness and greed, in his disgust with those to whom religion was a career, in his rejection of rampant emotionalism, in his relentless search for living Truth through self-inquiry, and in his encompassing sense of dread, the Kotzker anticipated some of the agitations of contemporary man.

A.J. Heschel, A Passion for Truth , Jewish Lights Publishing, p. 308