Lights of Teshuvah

Lights of Teshuvah

Teshuvah means â€œreturn.â€ It is the return to God, The return to health, The return to our soul, The return to the universe, The return to a mended planet, The return to happiness, The return to home. Lights of Teshuvah is the quintessential work of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935), first Chief Rabbi of the holy land, who was a Talmudic genius, a communal leader, a saintly personality, an impassioned visionary, a fighter for social justice, a poet andâ€“most of allâ€“a mystic. He was also a deeply original thinker, the breadth, inclusive spirit and transcendent ecstasy of whose teachings embrace the entirety of creation. Rabbi Kook was a poet of the soul and a spokesperson for a complete human spirit that embraces contradiction, that reconciles the poles of this-worldly and other-worldly experience. His writings celebrate the union of legalism and poetry, particularism and universalism, faith hidden in atheism and atheism hidden in faith, the spirit revealed from the flesh, and beauty revealed through ugliness. Rabbi Kook sang of universal creativity, of an unceasing fecundity that is the natural song of all being. He championed the poetic and creative spirit within each individual. â€œEvery time our heart beats with a true expression of spirituality,â€ he wrote, â€œevery time a new and exalted thought is born, we hear the likeness of a Godly angelâ€™s voice at the doors of our soul asking that we allow him entry so that he may appear to us in the totality of his beauty.â€ Ultimately, Rabbi Kookâ€™s robust message is one of life and growth, hope and optimism. â€œDeath is a false phenomenon,â€ he taught, and â€œto the degree that the quantity of movement toward wholeness grows, evil decreases and goodness is revealed.â€ ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR Yaacov David Shulman is the author, translator and editor of fifty books of Jewish spiritual and literary meaning. His translations of Rav Kook are available at ravkook.net, and his latest work is available at dotletterword.com. For a full listing of his work, visit his Amazon authorâ€™s page or shulman-writer.com. You may reach him at yacovdavid@ gmail.com.
Country USA
Brand CREATESPACE
Manufacturer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781546425823
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	CREATESPACE
Manufacturer	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781546425823
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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