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Rav Kook was a polymath, a legalist and rationalist, a mystic and poet. He was a world leader of Jewry and one of her most influential thinkers of the past century. His legacy as both a nationalist and universalist continues to baffle his admirers and detractors.
Joining us to help sort out this enigmatic spiritual giant and his messianic vision is Rabbi Bezalel Naor, an author and teacher, a preeminent scholar, translator and lifelong student of Rav Kook, and founder of Orot inc, a research centre and publishing house dedicated to the elucidation and dissemination of the teachings and poetry of Rav Kook.
In this conversation we discuss, Bezalel’s journey to becoming a student of Rav Kook, and take a glimpse into Rav Kook’s Spiritual Renaissance, his universal love, and his peculiar mystical atheism.
“All religions will recognize each other as brothers; how each serves its purpose... The relationships between religions will be organic. This realization will automatically bring about (and is brought about by) the higher realization of the unity of the light of Ein Sof [the Infinite, God], that manifests in and through all. And with this, automatically the pride of Israel must be uplifted.”
- Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook’s Messianic Prophecy
00:00 Excerpt: Kabbalah on the Non-Existence of God
00:18 Sketching out the Conversation
03:00 Introducing Rabbi Bezalel Naor
05:00 Rabbi Naor’s Story
08:24 Hasidim and Misnagdim
10:46 God in the Woods
11:50 Mixed Voices
13:38 The Invasive Chabad on the Left
14:53 Hybridity and Complexity
16:10 Getting High and Busted in School, on a Book
19:52 A Man Without a World, Lost and Drowning
23:42 Rav Kook’s Renaissance of the Spirit
27:17 Meeting Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook (Rav Kook’s Son)
31:35 Spiritual Lilliputians and Planetary Consciousness
36:30 Transcend Right and Left and Love…
38:43 Upper and Lower Unity, All and Nothing
39:47 Lower Unity, the Preservation of Particularity
42:23 All Religions of the King: Rav Kook’s Universalism
46:48 Upper Unity
47:40 Rav Kook’s Mystical Atheism: God Beyond Being
53:02 Getting Beyond Chochma/Yesh to Ayin
55:39 Conclusion
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