Rabbi Kook: OROT

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Announcing the new edition of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook's work, OROT (Maggid Books, 2015).Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook (1865–1935) was the first Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Eretz Yisrael. His unique approach to the Jewish People, flowing from a heart full of love, an intellect of cosmic scope, but above all, a soul invaded by mystic God-consciousness, endeared him to the scholars, settlers and revolutionaries of the Jewish communities before the establishment of the State of Israel. OROT is Rabbi Kook’s seminal work of thought, a poetic vision of grandeur of the Nation of Israel reborn in its ancient land. This new edition is based on the original 1920 version, Rabbi Kook’s only work that was published during his lifetime.

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  • Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook (18651935) was the first Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Eretz Yisrael. His unique approach to the Jewish People, flowing from a heart full of love, an intellect of cosmic scope, but above all, a soul invaded by mystic God-consciousness, endeared him to the scholars, settlers and revolutionaries of the Jewish communities before the establishment of the State of Israel. Very few thinkers have plumbed the depths of the individual psyche and encompassed the totality of existence, and what is between, as did Rav Kook. His often prophetic words speak today to an ever-widening audience seeking spiritual guidance in turbulent times. OROT is Rabbi Kooks seminal work of thought, a poetic vision of grandeur of the Nation of Israel reborn in its ancient land. This new edition is based on the original 1920 version, Rabbi Kooks only work that was published during his lifetime. The hardcover edition contains the original Hebrew text and an English translation by R' Bezalel Naor on facing pages. The softcover edition features the English translation exclusively. OROT is published by Maggid Books, a division of the venerable Jerusalem publishing house, Koren Publishers Jerusalem. Maggid Books offer new approaches to Jewish texts and themes from the worlds leading rabbis, scholars and philosophers.

    ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR Bezalel Naor is the author of many works of Jewish thought in English and Hebrewphilosophy, Kabbalah and Hasidismwith a major concentration on the writings of the great Seer of Israel, Rav Kook. Naors latest work, Kanauteh de- Pinhas (2013), is an analysis of the critique of Leshem Shevo ve-Ahlamah by the Lithuanian kabbalist Rabbi Pinhas Lintop of Birzh (Birzai). Naors earlier works include The Kabbalah of Relation (2012) and The Limit of Intellectual Freedom: Letters of Rav Kook (2011). For more information, contact Yehudit Singer, Marketing & PR Manager: [email protected].

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    Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook

    OROT

    The Original 1920 Version

    Introduction, Translation & Notes By Bezalel Naor

    NEW EDITION! From Maggid Books

    A Division of Koren Publishers Jerusalem

    Hardcover | Hebrew & English | 592 pp. | ISBN 978 159 264 419 3 | $39.95 |CAN $49.95

    Softcover | English | 382 pp. | ISBN 978-1-59264-4720-9 |

    $24.95 | CAN $27.95