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Author Mirsky, Yehudah

Title Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity : The Making of Rav Kook, 1865-1904
Published Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (408 p.)
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 An exploration of Rav Kook's formative years in Eastern Europe, 1865-1904
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Jewish philosophy.
Rabbis -- Europe, Eastern -- Biography
Religious Zionism -- Philosophy
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies.
Jewish philosophy
Rabbis
Religious Zionism -- Philosophy
Eastern Europe
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1618119540
9781618119544