Lights of Teshuvah
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Lights of Teshuvah is the quintessential work of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook (1865-1935), first Chief Rabbi of the Holy Land: a deeply original thinker, the breadth, inclusive spirit and transcendent ecstasy of whose teachings embrace the entirety of creation. Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik called this book “Rav Kook’s most philosophically developed work,” and points out its “most significant innovation as being that teshuvah (‘return’) is not connected to sin per se but is comprised of man’s returning to himself, returning to his source.” “Yaacov David Shulman is a master translator who is able to capture the language, the poetry and the beauty of Rav Kook’s Hebrew. Since Rav Kook is often very difficult to read in the Hebrew original, even by people who are very literate in Hebrew, having access to this material in English will be very useful.” Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, president emeritus of the Orthodox Union (OU) “Yaacov Shulman’s translations of Rav Kook are engaging and clear. He even succeeds in conveying a sense of the poetry of the original text—no mean feat. I highly recommend his work.” Rabbi Chanan Morrison, author of Gold from the Land of Israel, Silver from the Land of Israel and webmaster of ravkooktorah.org "Exciting, uplifting, inspiring." Rabbi Eli Mallon (Reflections: Torah, Hope and Healing book review) |
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English edition
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Hebrew-English facing pages
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Hebrew-English Interlinear
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