Yehudah mirsky rav kook biography
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Samuel Thrope on Yehudah Mirsky’s Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution
In the fall of 1913, Avraham Yitzhak Kook, then serving as chief rabbi of Jaffa, set out on a journey north.
Yehudah mirsky rav kook biography
Accompanied by other rabbis, Rav Kook, as he was commonly known, traveled to the new Zionist settlements along the coastal plain and in the fertile Galilee region of Ottoman-ruled Palestine. The rabbi’s goal was to teach and preach to the young socialists who had founded these small communities, part of a wave of Jewish immigration in the years leading up to the First World War that came to be known as the Second Aliyah.
Between 1904 and 1914 some 20,000 Jews arrived in Palestine, mostly from the Russian empire.
These pioneers — as they were known — were fiery idealists, hoping to remake themselves, the land, and Jewish history through communal labor and cultural revolution.
They were also vociferously anti-religious, having abandoned traditional, commandment-bound observance for the Zionis