Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the Zionist return to the land of Israel. His writings embrace modernism by offering a vision of the restored land of Israel, a vision at once evolutionary and Hegelian while at the same time mystical and messianic. Offering a Zionist dream of renewal of religious Judaism, his influence is widespread and significant.
Since the manner that human thought and feeling connects with the infinite supernal Divine light needs to be in a multiplicity of colors, therefore every nation and society must have a different spiritual way of life.
Since the manner that human thought and feeling connects with the infinite supernal Divine light needs to be in a multiplicity of colors, therefore every nation and society must have a different spiritual way of life.
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