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Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity : The Making of Rav Kook, 1865-1904 / Yehudah Mirsky.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (410 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781618119537
  • 9781618119544
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 296.832092
LOC classification:
  • BM755.K66
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- To the Reader -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. Childhood and Early Years: Between Mitnagdism, Hasidism, and Haskalah -- 2. All in the Mind: The Writings of the Zeimel Period -- 3. Boisk: Turning Inward at the Crossroads of Mussar and Tiqqun -- 4. ‘Eyn Ayah: Intellect, Imagination, Self-Expression, Prophecy -- 5. The Turn Towards Nationalism: Between Ideology and Utopia, or, Ethics and Eschatology -- 6. “The New Guide of the Perplexed” and “The Last in Boisk”: Making Sense of Heresy en Route to Zion -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Avraham Yitzhaq Ha-Cohen Kook (1865-1935) stands as a colossal figure of modern Jewish history and thought. Jurist, mystic, poet, theologian, communal leader, founder of the modern Chief Rabbinate and still the defining thinker of Religious Zionism, he is indispensable for understanding modern Jewish thought, the contemporary State of Israel, and the most fundamental interactions of religion, nationalism, ethics and spirituality. Despite countless studies of him, almost no full-fledged intellectual biography of him exists in any language. This study of the years before his momentous move to Jaffa in 1904, drawing on little-known works, including recently published manuscripts, begins to fill that gap. It traces his life and times in the remarkably intense Rabbinic intellectual milieu of late nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, and his path from a profound, regularly rationalist traditionalism, towards a dynamic theology and spiritual practice weaving together Kabbalah, philosophy, universal ethics, and romantic mysticism.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- To the Reader -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. Childhood and Early Years: Between Mitnagdism, Hasidism, and Haskalah -- 2. All in the Mind: The Writings of the Zeimel Period -- 3. Boisk: Turning Inward at the Crossroads of Mussar and Tiqqun -- 4. ‘Eyn Ayah: Intellect, Imagination, Self-Expression, Prophecy -- 5. The Turn Towards Nationalism: Between Ideology and Utopia, or, Ethics and Eschatology -- 6. “The New Guide of the Perplexed” and “The Last in Boisk”: Making Sense of Heresy en Route to Zion -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index

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Avraham Yitzhaq Ha-Cohen Kook (1865-1935) stands as a colossal figure of modern Jewish history and thought. Jurist, mystic, poet, theologian, communal leader, founder of the modern Chief Rabbinate and still the defining thinker of Religious Zionism, he is indispensable for understanding modern Jewish thought, the contemporary State of Israel, and the most fundamental interactions of religion, nationalism, ethics and spirituality. Despite countless studies of him, almost no full-fledged intellectual biography of him exists in any language. This study of the years before his momentous move to Jaffa in 1904, drawing on little-known works, including recently published manuscripts, begins to fill that gap. It traces his life and times in the remarkably intense Rabbinic intellectual milieu of late nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, and his path from a profound, regularly rationalist traditionalism, towards a dynamic theology and spiritual practice weaving together Kabbalah, philosophy, universal ethics, and romantic mysticism.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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