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==Resources== ===Writings=== ====Orot ("Lights") books==== * ''Orot'' โ organized and published by Rabbi [[Zvi Yehuda Kook]], 1920. English translation by Bezalel Naor (Jason Aronson, 1993). {{ISBN|1-56821-017-5}} * ''Orot HaTeshuvah'' โ English translation by Ben-Zion Metzger (Bloch Pub. Co., 1968). ASIN B0006DXU94 * ''Orot HaEmuna'' * ''Orot HaKodesh'' - four volumes, organized and published by Rabbi [[David Cohen (rabbi)|David Cohen]] * ''Orot HaTorah'' - organized and published by Rabbi [[Zvi Yehuda Kook]], 1940. ====Jewish thought==== * ''Chavosh Pe'er'' โ on the mitzvah of [[tefillin]]. First printed in Warsaw, 1890. * ''Eder HaYakar'' and ''Ikvei HaTzon'' - essays about the new generation and a philosophical understanding of God. First printed in Jaffa in 1906. * ''[[Ein Ayah]]'' โ commentary on ''[[Ein Yaakov]]'' the [[aggada|Aggadic]] sections of the Talmud. Printed in Jerusalem, 1995. * ''Ma'amarei HaRe'iyah'' (two volumes) โ a collection of articles and lectures, many originally published in various periodicals. Printed in Jerusalem, 1984. * ''Midbar Shur'' โ sermons written by Rav Kook while serving as a rabbi in Zaumel and Boisk in 1894โ1896. * ''Reish Millin'' โ Kabbalistic discussion of the Hebrew alphabet and punctuation. Printed in London, 1917.<ref>[[:he:ืืชืื ืืจืื"ื]]</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Morrison |first1=Chanan |title=Gold from the Land of Israel: A New Light on the Weekly Torah Portion - From the Writings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook' |date=2006 |publisher=Urim Publications |isbn=965-7108-92-6 |pages=353โ356}}</ref> ====Halakha==== * ''Be'er Eliyahu'' โ on Hilchos Dayanim * ''Orach Mishpat'' โ Shu"t on [[Orach Chayim]] * ''Ezrat Cohen'' โ Shu"t on [[Even HaEzer]] *''Mishpat Kohen'' โ Shu"t on issues relating to Eretz Yisrael * ''Zivchei R'Iyah''- Shu"t and Chidushim on Zvachim and Avodat Beit HaBchira * ''Shabbat Haaretz'' hilchot shevi'it (shemittah) ====Unedited and other==== * ''Shmoneh Kvatzim'' โ volume 2 of which was republished as ''Arpilei Tohar''<ref>[http://www.lho.co.il/books/2566-%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99-%D7%98%D7%95%D7%94%D7%A8.html]{{dead link|date=January 2016}}</ref> * ''Olat Raiyah'' โ Commentary on the [[Siddur]] * ''Igrot HaRaiyah'' โ Collected letters of Rav Kook ===Translation and commentary=== * (translation), ''Abraham Isaac Kook: The Lights of Penitence, The Moral Principles, Lights of Holiness, Essays, Letters, and Poems'', Ben Zion Bokser, Paulist Press 1978. {{ISBN|0-8091-2159-X}} [Includes complete English translations of Orot ha-Teshuva ("The Lights of Penitence"), Musar Avicha ("The Moral Principles"), as well as selected translations from Orot ha-Kodesh ("The Lights of Holiness") and miscellaneous essays, letters, and poems.] * {{cite book | author-link=David Samson (rabbi)|first= David| last=Samson |author2=Tzvi Fishman | title=Lights Of Orot| publisher=Torat Eretz Yisrael Publications |location=Jerusalem| year=1996| isbn=965-90114-0-7}} * {{cite book |author-link=David Samson (rabbi)| first= David| last=Samson |author2=Tzvi Fishman | title=War and Peace| publisher=Torat Eretz Yisrael Publications| location=Jerusalem |year=1997| isbn=965-90114-2-3}} * {{cite book | author-link=David Samson (rabbi)|first= David| last=Samson |author2=Tzvi Fishman | title=The Art of T'Shuva | publisher=Beit Orot Publications | location=Jerusalem |year=1999| isbn=965-90114-3-1}} [http://www.yeshiva.org.il/midrash/Emidrash.aspx?cat=991 Online edition]. * (translation), ''The Essential Writings of Abraham Isaac Kook'', Ben Yehuda Press 2006 (reprint). {{ISBN|0-9769862-3-X}} * Rabbi Chanan Morrison, ''Gold from the Land of Israel: A New Light on the Weekly Torah Portion From the Writings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook'', Urim Publications 2006. {{ISBN|965-7108-92-6}}. * Rabbi Chanan Morrison, ''Silver from the Land of Israel: A New Light on the Sabbath and Holidays From the Writings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook'', Urim Publications 2010. {{ISBN|965-524-042-8}}. * Rabbi Chanan Morrison, ''The Splendor of Tefillin: Insights into the Mitzvah of Tefillin from the Writings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook'', CreateSpace 2012. {{ISBN|148-001-997-6}}. * Rabbi Chanan Morrison, ''Sapphire from the Land of Israel: A New Light on the Weekly Torah Portion From the Writings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook'', CreateSpace 2013. {{ISBN|149-090-936-2}}. * Rabbi Gideon Weitzman, ''Sparks of Light: Essays on the Weekly Torah Portions Based on the Philosophy of Rav Kook'', Jason Aronson. {{ISBN|0-7657-6080-0}} {{ISBN|978-0765760807}}. * Rabbi Gideon Weitzman, ''Light of Redemption: A Passover Haggadah Based on the Writings of Rav Kook'', Urim Publications. {{ISBN|978-965-7108-71-0}}. Also there is now a musical project that presents Kook's poetry with musical accompaniment. HA'OROT-THE LIGHTS OF RAV KOOK by Greg Wall's Later Prophets Featuring Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein โ released on Tzadik Records, April 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.myspace.com/orotharav|title=HA'OROT - Listen and Stream Free Music, Albums, New Releases, Photos, Videos|website=Myspace}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.haorot.org|title=็พ่ใซใชใใใใซ|website=www.haorot.org|access-date=2018-09-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230082445/http://www.haorot.org/|archive-date=2017-12-30|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/haorotravkook|title=HAOROTRAVKOOK|website=YouTube}}</ref> ===Analysis=== * ''The Philosophy of Rabbi Kook'', Zvi Yaron, Eliner Library, 1992. * ''Essays on the Thought and Philosophy of Rabbi Kook'', ed. Ezra Gellman, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991. {{ISBN|0-8386-3452-4}} * ''The World of Rav Kook's Thought'', [[Shalom Carmy]], Avi-Chai Publishers, 1991. {{ISBN|0-9623723-2-3}} * ''Rav Avraham Itzhak HaCohen Kook: Between Rationalism and Mysticism'', Benjamin Ish-Shalom, translation Ora Wiskind Elper, SUNY Press, 1993. {{ISBN|0-7914-1369-1}} * ''Religious Zionism of Rav Kook'' [[Pinchas Polonsky]], [[Machanaim]], 2009, {{ISBN|978-965-91446-0-0}} * ''Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Jewish Spirituality '', Lawrence J. Kaplan & [[David Shatz]], [[NYU Press]], 1994, {{ISBN|978-0814746530}} * Ghila Amati, "Discovering the Depths Within: Kookโs Zionism and the Philosophy of Life of Henri Bergson," ''Religions'' 2023, 14(2), 261; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14020261 * Ghila Amati, "Freedom, Creativity, the Self, and God: Between Rabbi Kook and Bergsonโs Lebensphilosophie," 'Harvard Theological Review' 2024, 117(3):558-582. doi:10.1017/S0017816024000221 * Ephraim Chamiel, The Dual Truth - Studies in Nineteenth-Century Modern Religious Thought and its Influence on Twentiest-Century Jewish Philosophy, Academic Studies Press, Boston 2019, Vol II, pp. 449โ499. * Ephraim Chamiel, Between Religion and Reason - The Dialectic Position in Contemporary Jewish Thought, Academic Studies Press, Boston 2020, part I, pp. 7โ15. * [[Dov Schwartz]], ''[https://dokumen.pub/the-religious-genius-in-rabbi-kooks-thought-national-quotsaintquot-9781618114068.html The Religious Genius in Rabbi Kook's Thought: National "Saint"?]'' Boston: Academic Studies Press 2014. {{ISBN|978-1618114112}} ===Biography=== * [[Simcha Raz]], ''Angel Among Men: Impressions from the Life of Rav Avraham Yitzchak Hakohen Kook Zt""L'', translated (from Hebrew) Moshe D. Lichtman, Urim Publications 2003. {{ISBN|965-7108-53-5}} {{ISBN|978-9657108536}} * [[Dov Peretz Elkins]], ''Shepherd of Jerusalem: A Biography of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook'', 2005. {{ISBN|978-1420872613}} * [[Yehudah Mirsky]], ''"An Intellectual and Spiritual Biography of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhaq Ha-Cohen Kook from 1865 to 1904,"'' Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 2007. * [[Yehudah Mirsky]], ''"Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution (Jewish Lives)"'', Yale University Press, 2014, {{ISBN|978-0300164244}} ===Quotes=== * Therefore, the pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.<ref>From "Arpilei Tohar", p. 27โ28. Hebrew: ืขื-ืื ืืฆืืืงืื ืืืืืจืื ืืื ื ืงืืืืื ืขื ืืืืฉื, ืืื ืืืกืืคืื ืืืจ; ืืื ื ืงืืืืื ืขื ืืจืฉืขื, ืืื ืืืกืืคืื ืฆืืง; ืืื ื ืงืืืืื ืขื ืืืคืืจื, ืืื ืืืกืืคืื ืืืื ื; ืืื ื ืงืืืืื ืขื ืืืขืจืืช, ืืื ืืืกืืคืื ืืืื.</ref> * There could be a freeman with the spirit of the slave, and there could be a slave with a spirit full of freedom; whoever is faithful to himself โ he is a freeman, and whoever fills his life only with what is good and beautiful in the eyes of others โ he is a slave.<ref>From "Olat Reiyah". Hebrew: ืืฉ ืื ืืืจืื ืฉืจืืื ืจืื ืฉื ืขืื, ืืืฉ ืขืื ืฉืจืืื ืืืื ืืืจืืช; ืื ืืื ืืขืฆืืืืชื โ ืื ืืืจืื ืืื, ืืื ืฉืื ืืืื ืื ืจืง ืืื ืฉืืื ืืืคื ืืขืื ื ืืืจืื โ ืืื ืขืื.</ref>
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