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From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, the life and thought of Rav Kook, a forceful figurein Israels religious and political life Moving, invaluable, and indispensable . . . As a biography, Rav Mystic in a Time of Revolution is literature in its own right; and as a historical document, it startles with revelation after revelation.Cynthia Ozick Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (18651935) was one of the most influentialand controversialrabbis of the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, c

Who reads Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution (Jewish Lives)?

Author

Mirsky, Yehudah, author

Publisher

New Haven: Yale University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300164244

Category

biography

Subjects

Judaism, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.1 / 5 (46 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14