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Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Jewish Spirituality

Categorie	Israël & Judaica
Boeknummer	#341445-XG21
Titel	Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Jewish Spirituality
Auteur	Kaplan, Lawrence J. & David Shatz (editors)
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1995
ISBN10	0814746535
ISBN13	9780814746530
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.Reappraisals Jewish Social History, 2.
Samenvatting	Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was the first Ashkenazic chief rabbi of mandatory Palestine. Admired for the incredible diversity of his talents and interests--talmudist, halakhist, kabbalist, mystic, theologian, moralist, poet, and communal leader--Rav Kook's world outlook extolled breadth and derided narrow specialization. More than any other Orthodox thinker in modern times, he addressed, squarely and boldly, the confrontation between Judaism and the modern world. Kook serves as a natural model to those Jews who seek a religious understanding of and response to the culture and politics of the modern age. These essays, most published here for the first time, offer a range of analyses and interpretations covering, in an accessible, systematic, and comprehensive fashion the major are... (Lees verder)as of Rav Kook's thought. Among the issues discussed are: his relationship to the Jewish mystical, philosophical, and halakhic traditions; poetry and spirituality; harmonism and pluralism; tolerance and its limits; Zionism, messianism, and politics; and Rav Kook today.
Pagina's	346
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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