Title: The Legends of Rabbah Bar Bar Hannah: With the Commentary of Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook Author: Rav Betzalel Naor Publisher: Kodesh Press Reviewed by Shlomo Zuckier Rav Betzalel Naor has long been known as the expert translator of Rav Kook’s work into English. Among his many translations and publications to date are Orot […]
Secrets From the Shadow of God- A review of Rav Bezalel Naor’s The Legends of Rabbah Bar Bar Hannah with the commentary of Rav Kook by Pesach Sommer With the book launch for Rav Bezalel Naor’s “The Legends of Rabbah Bar Bar Hannah” based on Rav Kook’s commentary, coming up on December 10th in Teaneck, this […]
BOOK REVIEW Moshe Nahmani, Shnei ha-Me’orot [The Two Luminaries]: Rabbi Nahman of Breslov / Rav Avraham Yitzhak Hakohen Kook (2019) Moshe Nahmani has distinguished himself as a foremost independent researcher of the annals of Rav Kook. Like Rav Kook, he has an affinity for Beshtian Hasidism (something which alienates him from some disciples of Rav […]
BOOK REVIEW BY BEZALEL NAOR Shnayor Z. Burton, Mishnat Ya‘akov: Derushim Nivharim be-Mo‘adei ha-Shanah (5779/2019) Rabbi Shnayor Burton is a distinguished Talmudic scholar who resides in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. This is his second work of Jewish Thought. In 2017 he published Orot Ya‘akov: Derushim Nivharim be-Ma‘asei Avot. That volume focuses on the lives […]
Commentary to the Legends of Rabbah bar Bar Hannah Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook Introduction, Translation and Notes by Bezalel Naor Orot/Kodesh, 2019 by Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhoffer The first thing we have to clarify about this book is its intended audience. The book has a colorful cover, a portrait of a sea shore in […]
by Ben Rothke When you take one of the most enigmatic agadic pieces in the Talmud and attempt to use the commentary of one of the most esoteric commentators of the last 150 years, the likely outcome would be expected to have the readability of “Finnegans Wake” rather than a meaningful exploratory book. The agadic […]
By the JLNJ Staff: Highlighting: “The Legends of Rabbah Bar Bar Hannah with the Commentary of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook,” by Bezalel Naor. Kodesh Press L.L.C. 2019. English. Hardcover. 354 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1947857117.
Bezalel Naor, Shod Melakhim (Makhon Ramhal and Orot, 5778/2018) Reviewed by Rabbi Yisrael Isser Zvi Herczeg It gives me great satisfaction to see the publication of another volume of chiddushei Torah by my dear friend, Bezalel Naor. Rav Naor is known to most people as one of the leading interpreters of the thought of Rav […]
Another new book is R. Bezalel Naor’s Shod Melakhim. R. Naor is well known as an outstanding interpreter of R. Kook. His great knowledge of the entire scope of Jewish thought (not just R. Kook) is apparent to anyone who examines his writings. Yet I do not know how many are aware of R. Naor’s […]
Review by Elisha Paul Rav Avraham Yitzchok HaCohen Kook’s siddur Olat Reyah is an unparalleled work that allows aspiring scholars to gain access to Rav Kook’s deepest thoughts and perspectives on prayer, yet its profundity makes it difficult for even the most fluent Hebrew speakers to comprehend. A new addition to the constellation of English […]