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Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Jewish Spirituality »

Authors: Kayann Short, Abouali Farmanfarmaian, Lawrence Kaplan
ISBN-13: 9780814746523, ISBN-10: 0814746527
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: New York University Press
Date Published: October 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Kayann Short

LAWRENCE J. KAPLAN is Associate Professor of Rabbinics and Jewish Philosophy at McGill University.

DAVID SHATZ is Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University.

Book Synopsis

The result of work started in 1985 to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Rav Kook. Various scholars consider Rav Kook's thinking and legacy in three areas: "Rav Kook and the Many Streams of Jewish Tradition," "Faith, Culture and Pluralism: The Perspective of Harmonism" and "Zionism, Messianism, and the State of Israel." Contributors are from Israel and North America.

	Acknowledgments
	Note on Transliterations and Citations
	Contributors
	Introduction	1
1	Rav Abraham Isaac Kook and the Jewish Mystical Tradition	23
2	Rav Kook and the Jewish Philosophical Tradition	41
3	Rav Kook: Neither Philosopher nor Kabbalist	78
4	Poetry of Spirituality	88
5	Halakhah, Metahalakhah, and the Redemption of Israel: Reflections on the Rabbinic Rulings of Rav Kook	120
6	Harmonism, Novelty, and the Sacred in the Teachings of Rav Kook	159
7	Tolerance and Its Theoretical Basis in the Teaching of Rav Kook	178
8	Dialectic, Doubters, and a Self-Erasing Letter: Rav Kook and the Ethics of Belief	205
9	Immortality, Natural Law, and the Role of Human Perception in the Writings of Rav Kook	237
10	The Land of Israel and Historical Dialectics in the Thought of Rav Kook: Zionism and Messianism	257
11	Zion and Jerusalem: The Jewish State in the Thought of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook	276
12	Zionism As a Return to Mount Sinai in Rabbi Kook's Thought	290
13	What Would Rav Kook Have to Say about the State of Israel Today?	301
	Bibliography	309
	Index of Names, Terms, and Topics	325
	Index of Passages from Rav Kook's Writings	341