Souls of Chaos

Abraham Isaac Kook

1914

The conventional pattern of living, based on propriety, on the requisites of good character and conformity to law—this corresponds to the way of the world of order. Every rebellion against this, whether inspired by levity or by the stirring of a higher spirit, reflects the world of chaos. But there is a vast difference in the particular expressions…

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Abraham Isaac Kook

1865–1935

Abraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Palestine, a post in which he served from 1921 to his death, and a mystical thinker. He was born in Latvia and first settled in the Land of Israel in 1904. He spent part of World War I in London but returned to Palestine. Kook forged a religious Zionism that emphasized the role of human activity in bringing the messianic age and, unusually, argued that secular pioneers, who were conventionally the targets of Orthodox wrath, were unwittingly doing God’s work by settling the land and thus creating the necessary material substratum for the Messiah’s coming. Long after his death his thinking was a major influence on the messianic Zionist movement Gush Emunim.

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