Authors: Lawrence Kaplan, Kayann Short, Abouali Farmanfarmaian
ISBN-13: 9780814746530, ISBN-10: 0814746535
Format: Paperback
Publisher: New York University Press
Date Published: October 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)
LAWRENCE J. KAPLAN is Associate Professor of Rabbinics and Jewish Philosophy at McGill University.
DAVID SHATZ is Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University.
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 |