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Podcast: Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Episode: Rav Kook’s Universalism
Description: A virtual event presentation by Rabbi Bezalel NaorThe event was co-hosted by Beth ElAbout the Event:Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was a highly complex individual: legalist and philosopher, mystic and poet. In his role as Chief Rabbi of Eretz Israel (1921-1935), he emerged as a leader of world Jewry. Since his passing, Rav Kook’s literary legacy has exercised generations of scholars and thinkers (such as Rabbis J.B Soloveitchik, Isaac Hutner, and Jonathan Sacks, to name a few). That legacy, which contains elements of nationalism and universalism, co...