Author: Yehudah Mirsky
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-02-11
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0300164246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →DIV The life and thought of a forceful figure in Israel’s religious and political life /div
Author: Rabbi Avraham Kook
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-05
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781546425823
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Teshuvah means "return." It is the return to God, The return to health, The return to our soul, The return to the universe, The return to a mended planet, The return to happiness, The return to home. Lights of Teshuvah is the quintessential work of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935), first Chief Rabbi of the holy land, who was a Talmudic genius, a communal leader, a saintly personality, an impassioned visionary, a fighter for social justice, a poet and-most of all-a mystic. He was also a deeply original thinker, the breadth, inclusive spirit and transcendent ecstasy of whose teachings embrace the entirety of creation. Rabbi Kook was a poet of the soul and a spokesperson for a complete human spirit that embraces contradiction, that reconciles the poles of this-worldly and other-worldly experience. His writings celebrate the union of legalism and poetry, particularism and universalism, faith hidden in atheism and atheism hidden in faith, the spirit revealed from the flesh, and beauty revealed through ugliness. Rabbi Kook sang of universal creativity, of an unceasing fecundity that is the natural song of all being. He championed the poetic and creative spirit within each individual. "Every time our heart beats with a true expression of spirituality," he wrote, "every time a new and exalted thought is born, we hear the likeness of a Godly angel's voice at the doors of our soul asking that we allow him entry so that he may appear to us in the totality of his beauty." Ultimately, Rabbi Kook's robust message is one of life and growth, hope and optimism. "Death is a false phenomenon," he taught, and "to the degree that the quantity of movement toward wholeness grows, evil decreases and goodness is revealed." ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR Yaacov David Shulman is the author, translator and editor of fifty books of Jewish spiritual and literary meaning. His translations of Rav Kook are available at ravkook.net, and his latest work is available at dotletterword.com. For a full listing of his work, visit his Amazon author's page or shulman-writer.com. You may reach him at yacovdavid@ gmail.com.
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Publisher: AVI Chai-A Philanthropic Foundation
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Pinchas Polonsky
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-08-22
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781479169078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Brief introduction into zionist ideas of rav Kook - chief rabbi of Israel.
Author: Abraham Isaac Kook
Publisher: Gefen Books
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789652299130
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a time where radical and extreme religion threatens to destroy the entire world, Rav Kooks spiritual revolution provides a much needed answer, combining a deep love of God with an uncompromising compassion for all human beings. A person who reads the writings of Rav Kook will discover a man who rejected superficial labels of religious verses secular, right wing verses left wing. Rav Kook was one of the most spiritual and open minded thinkers in modern Jewish history. Gods presence in the world was so real to Rav Kook that he believed spirituality must focus on the transformation of the individual, the nation, humanity, and all of existence.
Author: Abraham Livni
Publisher: Old City Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789659188611
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Holocaust, 1944; creation of the State of Israel, 1948... a paradoxical and overwhelming connection!
Author: Simcha Raz
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook zt"l had brilliance and depth of knowledge that were simply otherworldly; his devotion to God was supernal; and his character traits were heavenly. At the same time, however - and perhaps more important - he was an exemplary human being. Although he strove for personal, spiritual perfection, he was more concerned with helping others come closer to God. He was constantly involved in the affairs of his people, doing everything in his power to ease their pain, raise their pride, and pave the way for their ultimate redemption in their ancestral Land."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved