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Abraham Isaac Kook (1864 - 1935) was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the (now) Religious Zionist Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, and a renowned Torah scholar.
Abraham Isaac Kook was born in Griva, Latvia (a suburb of Daugavpils, then Imperial Russia) in 1865, the oldest of eight children.
Kook's popular image as a Religious Zionist can be partially attributed to his son's wide influence in the Religious Zionist community, and substantial success in combining his father's teachings with his own beliefs.
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Kook's personal religious experience moved him to be deeply concerned about the contemporary opposition to religion, and throughout his life he carried on a relentless search for the meaning of religion in the modern world.
Kook was convinced that in spite of the decline of religion, mankind had moved to a higher stage in cultural growth.
Kook wrote: "The sacred and the profane together influence the spirit of man and he becomes enriched through absorbing from each of them whatever is suitable." In order for holiness to be achieved, the sacred and profane must be synthesized.
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 Abraham Isaac Kook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His father, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ha-Cohen Kook, was a student of the Volozhin Yeshiva, the "mother of the Lithuanian yeshivas", whereas his maternal grandfather was a member of the Hassidic movement.
Kook founded a yeshiva, Mercaz HaRav Kook (popularly known as "Mercaz haRav"), in Jerusalem in 1924.
Kook built bridges of communication and political alliances between the various Jewish sectors, including the secular Jewish Zionist leadership, the Religious Zionists, and more traditional non-Zionist Orthodox Jews.
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 Kook, Avraham Yitzhak (1865-1935)
On returning to Palestine after the war, Kook was appointed chief rabbi of Jerusalem and, with the formation of the chief rabbinate in 1921, he was elected the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Palestine.
Rabbi Kook was very popular among all sections of the population both non-religious and religious (except for the extreme Neturei Karta group).
When Abraham Isaac Kook died in 1935, thousands of Jews lined the streets of Jerusalem to mourn the passing of a great scholar, humanitarian, and religious leader.
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When R. Kook moved to Israel, he was appointed Chief Rabbi of Yaffo; this job included serving as the rabbi of the secular Zionists in the outlying agricultural settlements.
One summer, Rav Kook and his colleagues went on a tour of these settlements in an attempt to encourage the pioneers to observe more mitzvot, especially the laws pertaining to agriculture and produce.
Rav Kook's concept of means and ends serves as the basis for his understanding of the relationship between Kodesh and Chol.
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 Abraham Isaac Kook - Wikinoah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Rav Abraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the Zionist return to the land of Israel.
Rav Kook acknowledges that other nations have other religions, and that many of them are based on the Torah.
Rav Kook does not seem to assign special historical significance to Christianity and Islam for their status as “branches.” In a move that accepts the already-globalizing situation of the early 20th century, even the non-Abrahamic religions contain gold and holiness, which await elevation and unity with the Source of Israel.
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 World Mizrachi Movement: Rav Kook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Rabbi Kook reiterated over and over again that each and every Jew retains a holy spark within the soul and that the Jewish people as a whole, in beginning to revive their national aspirations and rebuilding the Land, were igniting this spark – which most assuredly would bring about the full and complete redemption.
At all times Rabbi Kook desired to keep peace between the religious and irreligious segments of the community, while trying to preserve and teach that the traditional way of life cannot be abandoned without abandoning the very soul of the Jewish people.
The end of Rabbi Kook’s life was marked by controversy, as the yishuv (settlement in Eretz Israel) divided between Revisionist and Labor Zionist philosophy.
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 Rabbi Scheinerman's Home Page - Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook
Rav Abraham Isaac Kook was a prominent religious Zionist thinker, whose philosophy continues to serve as the foundation of religious Zionism.
Born and educated in Grieva, Latvia, Abraham Isaac Kook had both a traditional Orthodox talmudic background, and a thirst for Biblical and Hebrew language studies, as well as secular philosophy.
For Rav Kook, redemption is not limited to Jews, and the building up of the Land of Israel was part of a larger, universal process that encompassed all humankind.
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 The Vegetarian Teachings of Rav Kook
Rav Kook was the first Chief Rabbi of pre-state Israel and a highly respected and beloved Jewish spiritual leader in the early 20th century.
According to Rav Kook, because people had sunk to an extremely low level of spirituality (in the time of Noah), it was necessary that they be given an elevated image of themselves as compared to animals, and that they concentrate their efforts into first improving relationships between people.
Rabbi Kook believed that the reprimand implied by these regulations is an elaborate apparatus designed to keep alive a sense of reverence for life, with the aim of eventually leading people away from their meat-eating habit.
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 Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook
Rav Kook was born in Griva, Latvia in 1865.
His father was a student of the Volozhin Yeshiva, the center of 'mitnagdut,' whereas his maternal grandfather was a memeber of the Hassidic movement.
Rav Kook was a man of Halakha in the strictest sense, while at the same time possessing an unusual openness to new ideas.
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 Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
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Abraham Isaac Kook: The Lights of Penitence, the Moral Principles, Lights of Holiness, Essays, Letters, and Poems
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 Judaism and Vegetarianism - Richard Schwartz Collection - Vegetarian Teachings of Rav Kook (Revised/Expanded)
Rabbi Kook believed that the vegetarianism of the generations before Noah represented a high moral level, and that a virtue so precious could not be lost forever.
Rav Kook considered vegetarianism as an ideal for the Messianic Age when people will have a heightened spiritual awareness, but he argued that vegetarianism should not be widely adopted as a norm of human conduct before that time.
Rav Kook asserted that at present, other societal issues such as the enmity between nations and racial discrimination should be of greater moral concern to humanity than the well being of animals.
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 Abraham Isaac Kook
Abraham Isaac Kook (1864 - 1935) Known in Hebrew as HaRav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, and by the acronym HaRaIyaH
Built bridges of communication and political alliances between the secular Jewish Zionist leadership and believers of Religious Zionism[?].
His empathy towards the anti-religious elements aroused the suspicions of his more traditionalist haredi opponents,particularly that of the old-time rabbinical establishment that had funtioned from the time of Turkey 's control of greater Palestine, whose paramount leader was Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Rabbi Kook's greatest rabbinical rival.
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 Kook, Abraham Isaac - HighBeam Encyclopedia
Kook, Abraham Isaac, 1864-1935, Jewish scholar and philosopher, b.
The Bergson Group, America, and the Holocaust: A Previously Unpublished Interview with Hillel Kook / Peter Bergson.
The binding of Isaac: religious paradoxes, permutations, and problems.(child sacrifice)
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 Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook (1865-1935) - OU's Department of Jewish Education - The OU Pardes Torah Project
The first chief rabbi of what was then Palestine, Rabbi Kook was perhaps the most misunderstood figure of his time.
Above all, Rav Kook pulsated with a sense of the Divine.
Rav Kook's printed works to date are in excess of 30 volumes with many works still in manuscript.
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 Amazon.com: Abraham Isaac Kook: The Lights of Penitence, The Moral Principles, Lights of Holiness, Essays, Letters, and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Abraham Isaac Kook: The Lights of Penitence, The Moral Principles, Lights of Holiness, Essays, Letters, and Poems (Classics of Western Spirituality) by Ben Zion Bokser
Rabbi Kook is one of the great religious Zionist thinkers, and his ability to see the good and positive in the works of others, non- religious Jews and non- Jews also make him a philosopher who can speak to us today.
Rav Kook is the greatest Jewish thinker in the last 200 years because he most fully understands the spiritual crisis of the modern Jew.
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 Abraham Issac Kuk Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
The Russian-born Jewish scholar Abraham Isaac Kuk (1865-1935), or Kook, was the first chief rabbi of Palestine, now Israel.
Born in northwestern Russia into a famous rabbinical family, Abraham Kuk received an intensive Talmudic education in his native city of Grieve.
At 15 years of age, already recognized as a prodigy, he went to Lutzin, where he continued his studies not only as an intellectual pursuit but as an act of piety.
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 Kabbalah & Jewish Mysticism--Beliefnet.com
The fruits generated from the roots of this supremely holy love comprise the good and upright qualities, the particular and the general, the personal and the social, until we reach a state where the world is judged by "righteousness and nations by equity (Psalm 98:9)"".
Abraham heard the vast realm of the divine calling to existence: Be illumined; calling to every particular being: Fill yourself with happiness, greatness, loftiness, peace, good, strength, love and delight."
Excerpt from Rabbi Kook's Essay on "The Significance of Revival".
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 Amazon.fr : Abraham Isaac Kook: The Lights of Penitance, Lights of Holiness : The Moral Principles, Essays, Letters ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
ABRAHAM ISAAC KOOK-THE LIGHTS OF PENITENCE, LIGHTS OF HOLINESS, THE MORAL PRINCIPLES, ESSAYS, LETTERS, AND POEMS, translation and introduction by Ben Zion Bokser, preface by Rivka Schatz and Jacob Agus
A spiritual master of our own times, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook was the Chief Rabbi of Palestine prior to the establishment of the State of Israel.
Rabbi Kook represents the most significant renewal of the Jewish mystical tradition in modern times.
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 Orthodox Zionism
The party was founded in 1901 at a conference of religious Zionists convened in Vilna by Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reines (1839-1915), who served as the organizations first president.
Rabbi Kook fought for reconciliation between the Zionists and the religious traditionalists.
Rabbi Kook believed that the "secularist" Zionists were performing a religious mission, even if they were unaware of it.
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 Rav Kook on Shavuot: Connecting to Torah Study
or Rav Kook, it is axiomatic that the Jewish soul and the Torah are a match made in heaven.
Rav Kook was of course aware of this problem.
With regard to the spiritual causes for a lack of connection to Torah, Rav Kook addressed several aspects.
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Paulist Press -- The chief Rabbi of Palestine prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, Kook (1865-1935) represents the renewal of the Jewish mystical tradition in modern times.
The chief Rabbi of Palestine prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, Kook (1865-1935) represents the renewal of the Jewish mystical tradition in modern times.
But how can I share with them my light?Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935)A spiritual master of our own times, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook was the Chief Rabbi of Palestine prior to the establishment of the State of Israel.
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 NYU Press
Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was the first Ashkenazic chief rabbi of mandatory Palestine.
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.
Among the issues discussred 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.
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Rav Kook's approach to death is very difficult to grasp, because of his multiple approaches to the topic.
Not much has been written about Rav Kook's approach to death, apart from an excellent article by Hugo Bergman in his book "Hogim U-Ma'aminim," and a recent article by Dr. Tamar Ross entitled "Immortality, Natural Law, and the Role of Human Perception" in "Abraham Isaac Kook and Jewish Spirituality," published by New York University.
Rav Kook extends this approach beyond the confines of fulfilling the mitzvot.
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