Who Was Rav Kook? Jewish History @ J Dr. Henry Abramson

Mystic and early Zionist, Rabbi Avraham Isaac Kook's challenging and eclectic philosophy has inspired generations of Jews since his passing in 1935. Often misunderstood, Rav Kook's role as one of the principal Rabbinic figures of the era was foundational for establishing a religious ideology for the the modern, secular and democratic state of Israel.
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[@forzionknowifyou8282]

Baruch hashem Dr Henry Abramson is a good rabbi I am a pakestani Jew who was raised in America I am a sefardi yidden but I admire the ashkanazi chassidec rabbi chacham thanks for sharing the biography of rabbi kook best wishes from DANIEL yaqoob HAMADANI

[@golkas9971]

Mr. Abramson you're extremely talented !!!

[@djarnoldo516]

A terrific lecture by a bona fide historian about a deep, enigmatic, mystical, fascinating man, Rav Kook. Yasher koach, Dr. Abramson!

[@dietlindvonhohenwald448]

It is so educational to listen to these lectures. So important for the public to learn more about Judaism instead of just following misinformation. I’m not jewish but I don’t understand why, as a jew, one would ever turn to secularism and marxism? It feels like a suicide of the soul.

[@gloverdavid6491]

Revelation 2:9

[@elianayocheved6413]

Your lectures are amazing, and you are a great teacher...I'm surprised you don't have smicha!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Thanks very much!

[@marshawoods1493]

Love your lectures as always!! I don't know how I missed this one but thoughly enjoyed it!!!

[@CarlJohnson-kk4pr]

Dr.Prof. Abrahmson, I have TOO Complement You, Many Years ago before I converted to Judaism, My Soul was awaken by the Blowing of a Ram's horn by a Gentleman who became My fathering Rabbi & Good Friend, Lee Richardson, a Scholar in history,Torah & Talmudic Writings, spooky stuff as You call it LOL, as well as a Mystic, and Good Yokes, Humble man EXTREMELY humble and EXHILARATING, You Remind Me of him, he prayed over Me before I left Bend Oregon yet the Precious Time he spent with Me helped Me become who I am today THANK HASHEM For Bringing You Into My Life on KZbin. I was one an ordained Non-denominal christian Minister & theologian And HASHEM Opened My Eyes With The word Shabbat. Shalom TOO You n Yours BLESSINGS. And I am on HASHEM'S Side ALL the Way, One thing I did Do was take the kJ. Version and compared it with The Jewish Tanachk and The Holy Sacred Zohar, a saw for My self where christianity had twisted the writings in the prophets and took writings from The Holy Sacred Zohar and put them into the last of the writings in revelation and used it for Control and Deception Over humanity, for example the picture of the messiah/christ riding a white horse with many layered crown on his head and The righteous riding behind him in his so called return, that comes from The Holy Sacred Zohar and has a Totally Different Meaning & then The Isaiah's 34: prophecy of Warrior Coming from Bozrah with blood drenched garment and sword full of blood of animals represents nations against Yisrael, this is the war taking place no modern day Straight of Hormuz, & not what christian's teach, these are a beginning of the Falseness I came across. Then as I studied on Nibiru years ago, and in wonderment questioned what could be a great red dragon thrown down to the earth, I was reading a magazine called nexus and found an interesting article that went along with My research and also came across Torah Codes Revealed by Rabbi Glazerson KZbin, about Nibiru, and a binary star with 7 planets orbiting it and it has a ion twin tail with it like a comet and it's description is in The Holy Sacred Zohar as well. The Oriental's call it "The Great Red Dragon" could this be where children forefathers and The priests who wrote the text took the name, for Our sun's binary star, and it's actually not going to hit the earth, the earth is going to go through one of the tails of it and this is where christianity gets the idea of stars falling from the sky. And there we have Truth. Shalom

[@luiscecilio8807]

thanks....always good learning with you

[@elisalem3316]

Rab Kook also had a good relationship with the Separdic chief rabbi Uziel My great grandfather Joseph Behar lived in Jaffa at the time and was a banker and recognized as one of the founders of Israel

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Fascinating!

[@debbeylukas5872]

I love all your lectures! Very entertaining and I’m learning a great deal. Thank you! And if it makes you feel better I did laugh out loud at your jokes :)

[@ArnaGSmith]

It just keeps getting better ...

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Thanks!

[@TheFlyguy31]

Excellent Lecture..thank you...

[@franceslock1662]

Thoroughly engaging.

[@wiGoGale]

Cool- I have a Russian Jewish friend whose parents were “raised on a Kibbutz” . It has always puzzled me. Day to day he hangs with his regular super educated jewish church & friends. When stressed, he switches- moves to the back of the room, with a been there, done that attitude. From the back of the room, he starts acting out a deeply ingrained trust in physical solutions over “overthinking it”. This little talk helps me grasp why he does this. Interesting.

[@a123boyzone]

Nice Lecture.

[@MoosePantz]

I much enjoy these wonderful sessions. Thank you.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you like them!

[@steadfastinfaith4182]

Loved this thank you !!!

[@Silvia-lv5sm]

Would be interesting to watch a lecture on Chanina ben Dosa and Choni the circle maker.

[@dogethehut9790]

Silvia jkhou

[@michaelhebert7338]

well done thank you

[@SuperYaniv12]

Thank you very much!! very interesting!

[@PC-lu3zf]

This was the day after my Mother passed away Lovely video.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

I hope it provided some consolation.

[@kwyzi]

marvellous ! thanks

[@davidtzohar6693]

As a talmid of talmidim of HaRav Kook ZTZL I very much enjoyed your lecture, Two minor points:1 It ws Agudat Yisrael,not Mizrachi who sent HaRav to the European Kenessia Gdolah, 2-On the issue of womens rights HaRav was strongly against giving women the vote, I look forward to more lectures-Rav David Yitzchak Tzohar.Yeshivat Machon Meir Yerushalayim

[@kauffner]

So Rav Kook kept the entire universe in existence (20:45). No wonder he got his own video.

[@StephenGrew]

Illuminating

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

I'm glad that you enjoyed the class! Thank you for being a public subscriber!

[@StephenGrew]

@@HenryAbramsonPhD thanks Henry. I am a non Jew, but I have a feeling that there is some Jewish in our family, I have a feel for it. I did discover that our family name Grew is possibly connected to the actress Clare Bloom who married a Grew, Clare I think is still alive in her 90s, she was in the last Chaplin film. 😊🌅

[@neilgoodman2885]

Professor Abramson: Rav Kook, what a man. Thank you very much. I remain respectfully, Neil Goodman.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

You are very welcome

[@yonymazal]

Great lecture and have enjoyed others you have shared in past. One question though... Why not make mention of the unique degree of compassion Rav Kook had for all living creatures via maintaining a vegetarian diet?

[@YosefKaner]

There is a similar story about the Rebbe Rashab chastising the Previous Rebbe of Chabad for ripping a leaf off of a tree. www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/42749/jewish/A-Rebbes-Education.htm Your interesting mention of the button from the Tzemach Tzedek on Rav Kook's keepa highlights how Rav Kook and the Previous Rebbe were sort of from the same branch (pun sort of intended). The Previous Rebbe spent a good deal of time visiting with Rav Kook when the Rebbe visited Eretz Yisrael in 1929.

[@markjacobi3537]

I had the zechus of seeing Rav Kook's son R Tzvi Yehuda and davening at his place, not made for a 'young cobber/bloke from Australia

[@yosefrabin3975]

In regard to the phrase ראשית צמיחת גאולתנו was in regard to the overall process (which would include the government) of the return of the Jewish People to Israel and less the government itself.

[@joeluna7729]

Good briefing. I HIGHLY recommend Rav Kooks to Jews, Christians and Muslims. The books are available in English on Kindle. If you read Hebrew or not, they are delicious and beautiful, but I read 1-page a day max! because my little brain can't take it al in so fast! 😂

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

His Hebrew is dense and poetic, but very beautiful.

[@CarlJohnson-kk4pr]

"Build A Wall" LOLOL, Shalom Alechem, GOOD One

[@philipmann5317]

Regarding the revolt of the youth, a while ago someone showed me some CDs that had archival footage of life in eastern Europe between the two wars. It showed two scenes among others. One was Jews davening in shul, and it showed what looked like a Shabbos davening. I don't know how it was filmed, but it was obvious that most of the congregants were old men. Another scene was a Betar parade, and it was packed with kids. That told me everything about the times.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Complex

[@samuelledereich6112]

ראשית צמיחת גאולתנו: the big question is to all and to dr. Prof. Abramson what was rav kook thinking about the Geula. What was his philosophy about the Geula. Thank you

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Good question

[@thevillageyid]

Name your top 5 favorite Rabbis/Mystics.

[@nechomiezalmanov9380]

Rav Kook's mother is not descendant from the Tzemach Tzedek, rather her father was a follower of a son of the Tzemach Tzedek

[@davidsavage6324]

i have a proposal for the 'no hard questions' 'rule/request' : hard questions only in the comment section; so you can take time to mull over them or ignore them as you choose

[@pinifasi843]

I enjoy your lectures…… curious why you didn’t mention ״שלא תעלו בחומה״ and the satmar rebbe . Also you didn’t mention rab Kook was ok with evolution,said he found seminar idea in Zohar ,meaning,it’s not like it says in the Torah ויברא אלהים את האדם …. It seems what he cared for is simply survival of Jewish people and all else is quite secondary… I’m hiloni but it bother me that rav simply of Judaism a soup, something that doesn’t belong, to me it seems weird, to believe in Darwin and Kabbalah at same time.z

[@PathOfAvraham]

Please please please HaKham Uziel next, only makes sense.

[@bobbechtel4187]

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[@davidsavage6324]

you said "brought to the table of Judaism" at 11:11; what a table it is! with every historical sect of every period with a place, what a museum exhibition that would be!; maybe right up the alley of some kooky, kabbalistic instillation artist.

[@benusrael3841]

do you not think that the rise of hasidic Judaism should be described as a revival rather than a reformation?

[@blainem2258]

"The difference between the Jewish soul, in all its independence, inner desires, longings, character and standing, and the soul of all the Gentiles, on all of their levels, is greater and deeper than the difference between the soul of a man and the soul of an animal, for the difference in the latter case is one of quantity, while the difference in the first case is one of essential quality." -Kook That's not racist because ... ?

[@sklaryeh]

He was referring to various kabbalistic terms for soul and the differences between them. English doesn't really distinguish between them, and this translation doesn't do it justice. This is the more appropriate translation: "The difference between the Israelite neshama [supernal soul], its essence, internal longings, aspiration, character and position - and the neshama of all the nations, in their various grades, is greater and deeper than the difference between the nefesh [lower, biological part of the soul] of man and the nefesh of animals. For between the latter there is only a quantitative difference, while between the former there exists a qualitative, essential difference."

[@sklaryeh]

Also in the same essay: The love of Israel requires the love of all mankind, and when it instills hatred for any part of mankind, this is a sign that the neshama has not yet been purified from its filth, and thus cannot be united with the Eden of the highest love.

[@robertmayo5824]

The messiah comes into the holy city through the eastern gate

[@ArnaGSmith]

But I thought the land belonged to God? I don't think the Zealots during the temple destruction would have gone along with that idea of buying and selling back. Very difficult situation.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Indeed

[@motorhead6763]

Y as in ? Or as in Yes?...

[@ab-on4mh]

although I don't consider you as semitic people but I imagin amount of pressure to be sandwich between such nations, it's a remarkable you could manage to find way out and rise.

[@benavraham4397]

Russia is right north of Eretz Israel. So shuls should have pointed south. Or did shuls in Russia point east, since Jews entered Russia from the west and didn't realize how east they were? The Prophets said that Israel would return from the NORTH, and sure enough, the bulk of Jewery wound up NORTH of E.I.

[@psjasker]

I come here for the jokes ….

[@michielvdvlies3315]

Rabbi Kook acknowledged Yeshua/Jesus as the true Messiah

[@ajaxthree1]

Can you provide the source of this claim? In Hebrew as well as in English? Were these his own words or someone translating and thus implying or inferring that Rabbi Kook made this acknowledgment?

[@noursaadani2336]

Why you are not mentioning anything about the Palestinian that used to live in Palestine and the massacre that were perpetuated in them, the Palestinian who gave you refuge from Europe…. This is a dishonest record of history… “when you ignore the past, you won’t have a future “ ibn khaldoun

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Because this video is on a different topic.

[@franceslock1662]

Thoroughly engaging.