Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life–Mystical Zionism’s Surprising Origins: Rav Kook’s Early Decades
VirtualPresented by Yehudah Mirsky, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University Rav (Rabbi) Abraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the Land of Israel, an important theologian, a foundational thinker of religious Zionism, and the Zionist movement's most influential and controversial rabbinic advocate. Prof. Yehuda Mirsky (Brandeis University) will examine […]