Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution

by Yehudah Mirsky

Book Overview

The life and thought of a forceful figure in Israel's religious and political life

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300248571
• ISBN13: 9780300248579
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.0"