{"product_id":"rav-kook-yehudah-mirsky-9780300164244","title":"Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, the life and thought of Rav Kook, a forceful figure in Israel's religious and political life\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Moving, invaluable, and indispensable . . . As a biography, \u003ci\u003eRav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is literature in its own right; and as a historical document, it startles with revelation after revelation.\"--Cynthia Ozick\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the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 struggled to understand and shape his revolutionary times. His life and writings resonate with the defining tensions of Jewish life and thought.\u003cp\u003eA powerfully original thinker, Rav Kook combined strict traditionalism and an embrace of modernity, Orthodoxy and tolerance, piety and audacity, scholasticism and ecstasy, and passionate nationalism with profound universalism. Though little known in the English-speaking world, his life and teachings are essential to understanding current Israeli politics, contemporary Jewish spirituality, and modern Jewish thought. This biography, the first in English in more than half a century, offers a rich and insightful portrait of the man and his complex legacy. Yehudah Mirsky clears away widespread misunderstandings of Kook's ideas and provides fresh insights into his personality and worldview. Mirsky demonstrates how Kook's richly erudite, dazzlingly poetic writings convey a breathtaking vision in which \"the old will become new, and the new will become holy.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout Jewish Lives: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMore praise for Jewish Lives: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Excellent.\" -New York Times \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Exemplary.\" -Wall Street Journal \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Distinguished.\" -New Yorker \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Superb.\" -The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yehudah Mirsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300164246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300164244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/11\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.43h x 6.40w x 1.04d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Jewish Book Award - Winner","brand":"Yehudah Mirsky","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44078337261823,"sku":"9780300164244","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_33692eeb-86d0-41ab-89aa-083b5bd1f7ac.jpg?v=1685474922","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rav-kook-yehudah-mirsky-9780300164244","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}