Isaac Hakohen Kook

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  Join this discussion of a living, breathing Judaism, which Rabbi Isaac HaCohen Kook suggested when he wrote that "the ancient must be renewed and the new must be sanctified."

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  As Rabbi Isaac Hakohen Kook has taught[1] ‘True peace can only come into the world through multiplicity…when all sides and approaches are revealed and it will become clear how there is a place for each.' We have much to learn from each other, and a true community of learning is structured to honor that assumption. Professionals learn from their lay leaders and vice versa.

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  As Rabbi Isaac Hakohen Kook has taught[1] ‘True peace can only come into the world through multiplicity…when all sides and approaches are revealed and it will become clear how there is a place for each.' We have much to learn from each other, and a true community of learning is structured to honor that assumption. Professionals learn from their lay leaders and vice versa.

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  Published on: 5/20/2007    Last Visited: 5/22/2007  

  First, God chose Abraham's lineage through Isaac to be His "treasured people (Deuteronomy: 7.6), a people "consecrated" to the Lord and "a kingdom of priests and a holy nation (Exodus: 19.5)."He also chose a land where His people would come together; although its borders vary, this land always included the land between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean sea as its core.Like God's chosen people, this land too was unique: it was a pure land, "flowing with milk and honey (Exodus: 33.3)," devoid of impurities, the best of all lands on the earth; it was also a holy land, set apart from other lands, because it was His earthly dwelling place.Finally, this God makes a Covenant with His chosen people.He promises to given them owners and rulers over the holy land, and to guide, bless and favor them as long as they observe His laws.Conversely, He threatens them with dire punishments, including exile from the Promised Land, if they break their Covenant (Exodus: 19.5).
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  Rabbi Isaac Hakohen Kook, When God become history: Historical essays of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook, translated by Bazalel Naor (Spring Valley, NY: Orot Inc., 2003). http://www.orot.com/history2.html

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  Rabbi Isaac Hakohen Kook, one of the great 20th century thinkers and Chief Rabbi of Pre-state Israel, believed that the many laws associated with the preparation and consumption of meat was an elaborate apparatus designed to keep alive a sense of reverence for life, with the aim of eventually leading people away from their meat-eating habit.

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  Published on: 11/11/2000    Last Visited: 3/28/2002  

  Last year, a Sephardic House "Saturday Night at the Movies" double-feature combined a biography of Menachem Begin with a documentary on Rabbi Isaac Kook.

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  Last year, a Sephardic House "Saturday Night at the Movies" double-feature combined a biography of Menachem Begin with a documentary on Rabbi Isaac Kook.

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  Published on: 2/10/2003    Last Visited: 10/30/2005  

  In my mind, even though Isaac is saved, Abraham's life now changes to one of misfortune--you never see him interact with Isaac again, in fact you aren't sure from the text if Isaac even comes down the mountain with him, Sarah dies (perhaps of a broken heart) and Avraham's station in the world has changed.The wealth and security of being part of a strong nuclear family is gone.
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  1. When God asked Avraham to offer up his son, his favorite son, Isaac, whom he loved? ...
  
  Avraham , the man who argued about S'dom must have at least had a conversation with God to understand this request or gone back to Sarah to tell her what was being asked of him.If he has the faith that is attributed to him, I want to know how he communicated it to Sarah.Taking Isaac off to sacrifice him in secret is not only an act of faith, it is a also an act of deception.
  
  2. When Isaac asks his father, "But where is the sheep for the burnt offering."...If Avraham is such a man of faith, would he not take this opportunity to expound upon his beliefs to his son?
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  4. When Avraham sends Eliezer to find a wife for Isaac ... .Is this some sort of atonement for his behavior at the Akedah?Is this a promise he made to Sarah?What does he tell Isaac about the need to marry within the clan and to show allegiance to his people?
  
  Why do we read this passage every year on Rosh Hashanah?I think that it is precisely because it is such a hard passage.God is asking us to go back, to create our own midrash, to relive that moment of choice and to redefine ourselves with acts of faith based on the new concepts we have found in the unwritten parts of the story.
  
  Rabbi Isaac Kook, the first chief Ashkenazi rabbi of Jerusalem observed that "what we desire is tied up with what we have done."

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  Published on: 2/16/2000    Last Visited: 9/29/2000  

  Last week, too, other Hevron residents, together with hundreds of others from around the country, commemorated the memory of Rabbi Shlomo Ra'anan - grandson of the revered Rabbi Avraham Isaac Kook - who was murdered two years ago by an Arab terrorist at his Tel Rumeida home.Leading rabbis took part in the evening, which also marked the publication of the book Neshama shel Shabbat (The Sabbath Soul) in Rabbi Ra'anan's memory.Last night, the Hevron Jewish community celebrated two recent weddings with a festive meal and a double sheva brachot (seven traditional wedding-week blessings).
  
  On the other hand, police harassment of Hevron residents continued yesterday - when three uniformed policemen and two detectives spent several hours searching one family's home for a cellular phone that an Arab threw at it last year.In December 1999, Arabs attacked a Jewish house with stones, leading to an incident in which a road was closed.An Arab man, stopped by soldiers while attempting to cross the road, threw his cell phone at an Israeli policeman, but it landed next to a Jewish house - and the Arab accused one of the children living there of stealing it.

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  Published on: 5/21/2006    Last Visited: 9/24/2008  

  This is from Rabbi Isaac Kook, a universalist who kept his vision in truly difficult circumstances.He saw the contribution of every type as precious, and he wrote in the Fourfold Song: We are different and we sing different songs.There are those who sing the song of their own life and there are those whose songs are only of their community.There are those of us who do not find ourselves in either of the first two groups.There is another who reaches toward more distant realms and goes beyond the bounds of Israel to sing the song of man, and yet another who rises towards wider horizons until he aligns himself with all existence, and sings his song with all God's creatures."

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