ha-Rav Ḳuḳ
Subtitle: mabaṭ ḥadash
By: Yehudah Mirsḳi
Publisher: Kineret; Zemorah; Devir
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Ḥevel Modiʻin
Language: heb
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9789655741810
Subjects: Rabbis; Biography
Other titles: Rav Kook
Work titles: Rav Kook
Description: "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.""-- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Originally published: Rav Kook : mystic in a time of revolution, Yale University press 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mavo; title: 1. Avraham Yitsḥaḳ: Liṭa; title: 2. ha-Ḥadesh yitḳadesh: Yafo; title: 3. Merḥavim, merḥavim; title: 4. ha-Ḥoshekh yekhaseh erets: Sainṭ Galen, London, ṿeha-milḥamah ha-gedolah; title: 5. Aḥim medukaʼim ṿe-ḥavivim: Yerushalayim; title: Siyum: Or ḥozer; title: Todot; title: ha-Maltsot li-ḳeriʼah nosefet; title: Meḳorot li-temunot; title: Heʻarot; title: Mafteḥot; title: 880-04