Rav Avraham Itzhak HaCohen Kook : between rationalism and mysticism / Benjamin Ish-Shalom ; translated from Hebrew by Ora Wiskind-Elper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ish Shalom, Binyamin.

Series:

SUNY Series in Judaica : Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion

SUNY series in Judaica

SUNY series in Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion

Standardized Title:

Rav Ḳuḳ. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kook, Abraham Isaac, 1865-1935--Teachings.

Kook, Abraham Isaac.

Orthodox Judaism.

Mysticism--Judaism.

Mysticism.

Jewish philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 357 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first comprehensive philosophical-theological study of the mystical thought of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935), the Chief Rabbi of Palestine prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, and the great representative of the most significant renewal of the Jewish mystical thought in modern times. Rav Kook was the spiritual and hallachic authority who laid the foundation of religious Zionism. Discontent with "Hamizrakhi" political pragmatism, he envisioned Zionism as a movement of return and all-encompassing Jewish renaissance. This book dissolves the mist enveloping Rav Kook's writings and offers an understanding of his spiritual world. It presents and analyzes the systematic elements in his teaching and reveals the spiritual interests and fundamental approaches of his religious thought.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Front Cover""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication Page""; ""Table Of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""In the Grip of Contradiction""; ""Elements of Reality and Perception""; ""Reality and Truth

Epistemology and Ontology""; ""Revefation as a Principle""; ""Religion and Freedom""; ""The Concept of ""Freedom"" and the Category of ""Self""""; ""Man and the Origin of the Religious Phenomenon""; ""The Purpose of Man and Existence""; ""The Way of the Holy""; ""Between Rationalism and Mysticism""

""The Dynamic of Rationalism and Mysticism in Rav Kook's Thought"" ""Mystical Language, Myth, and Symbols""; ""Before the Secret of Existence""; ""Back Matter""; ""Afterword""; ""NOTES""; ""GLOSSARY OF SELECTED NAMES AND TERMS""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""GENERAL INDEX""; ""Back Cover ""

Notes:

Translation of: ha-Rav Kuk.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-348) and index.

ISBN:

9781438407630

1438407637

OCLC:

794928171