Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution by Mirsky, Yehudah
Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution by Mirsky, Yehudah

Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, the life and thought of Rav Kook, a forceful figure in...
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Author: Yehudah Mirsky
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Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution by Mirsky, Yehudah

Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution

CHF 38.86
Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution by Mirsky, Yehudah

Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution

CHF 38.86
Author: Yehudah Mirsky
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, the life and thought of Rav Kook, a forceful figure in Israel's religious and political life

"Moving, invaluable, and indispensable . . . As a biography, Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution is literature in its own right; and as a historical document, it startles with revelation after revelation."--Cynthia Ozick

Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential--and controversial--rabbis of the twentieth century. A visionary writer and outstanding rabbinic leader, Kook was a philosopher, mystic, poet, jurist, communal leader, and veritable saint. The first chief rabbi of Jewish Palestine and the founding theologian of religious Zionism, he struggled to understand and shape his revolutionary times. His life and writings resonate with the defining tensions of Jewish life and thought.

A powerfully original thinker, Rav Kook combined strict traditionalism and an embrace of modernity, Orthodoxy and tolerance, piety and audacity, scholasticism and ecstasy, and passionate nationalism with profound universalism. Though little known in the English-speaking world, his life and teachings are essential to understanding current Israeli politics, contemporary Jewish spirituality, and modern Jewish thought. This biography, the first in English in more than half a century, offers a rich and insightful portrait of the man and his complex legacy. Yehudah Mirsky clears away widespread misunderstandings of Kook's ideas and provides fresh insights into his personality and worldview. Mirsky demonstrates how Kook's richly erudite, dazzlingly poetic writings convey a breathtaking vision in which "the old will become new, and the new will become holy."

About Jewish Lives:

Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present.

In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award.

More praise for Jewish Lives:

"Excellent." -New York Times

"Exemplary." -Wall Street Journal

"Distinguished." -New Yorker

"Superb." -The Guardian

Author: Yehudah Mirsky
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 02/11/2014
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.43h x 6.40w x 1.04d
ISBN: 9780300164244


Award: National Jewish Book Award - Winner

About the Author
Yehudah Mirsky is Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University.


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