Rabbi Bezalel Naor and Professor Marc B. Shapiro in dialog on Rav Kooks legacy at the Lincoln Square Synagogue.
The Universalism of Rav Kook
The Universalism of Rav Kook by Bezalel Naor Stereotypes are difficult to overcome. Until recently, the stereotype of Rav Avraham Yitzhak Hakohen Kook (1865-1935) was of a nationalist (perhaps even ultranationalist) who lent his rabbinic aegis to the Zionist enterprise in the first third of the twentieth century. In his seminal work Orot [Lights] (Jerusalem, […]