Rav Kook and The Rav

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This course with Rabbanit Mali Brofsky examines the lives, thought, and legacies of two of the most significant figures in modern Jewish intellectual history: Rav Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook and Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Through close study of their writings, students will engage with their deeply insightful explorations of the self in relation to God, the nature of Divine service, and the meaning of Jewish peoplehood.

Each thinker responded to the defining challenges of his age: Rav Kook shaped the spiritual and ideological foundations of nascent Israeli society and the Zionist project, while Rav Soloveitchik gave meaning and direction to post-Holocaust American Judaism. Together, they represent two profound encounters with modernity, and provide enduring visions of Judaism in the modern world.