Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was the first Ashkenazic
chief rabbi of mandatory Palestine. Admired for the incredible
diversity of his talents and interests--talmudist, halakhist,
kabbalist, mystic, theologian, moralist, poet, and communal
leader--Rav Kook's world outlook extolled breadth and derided
narrow specialization. More than any other Orthodox thinker in
modern times, he addressed, squarely and boldly, the confrontation
between Judaism and the modern world. Kook serves as a natural
model to those Jews who seek a religious understanding of and
response to the culture and politics of the modern age.
These essays, most published here for the first time, offer a range
of analyses and interpretations covering, in an accessible,
systematic, and comprehensive fashion the major areas of Rav Kook's
thought. Among the issues discussed are: his relationship to the
Jewish mystical, philosophical, and halakhic traditions; poetry and
spirituality; harmonism and pluralism; tolerance and its limits;
Zionism, messianism, and politics; and Rav Kook today.
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