Zvi Yehuda Kook
Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook הרב צבי יהודה קוק | |
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Personal | |
Born | 23 April 1891 |
Died | 9 March 1982 | (aged 90)
Religion | Judaism |
Nationality | Israeli |
Spouse | Chava Leah Hutner |
Parent(s) | Abraham Isaac and Reiza Rivka Kook |
Denomination | Orthodox |
Position | Rosh yeshiva |
Yeshiva | Mercaz HaRav |
Began | 1952 |
Ended | 1982 |
Buried | Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery, Jerusalem |
Zvi Yehuda Kook (
Kook's
Kook presided for nearly six decades over the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva (lit. 'The Rabbi's Centre') founded by his father in Jerusalem, which became "the flagship yeshiva of religious Zionism",
Biography
Zvi Yehuda Kook was born on the eve of Passover[9] in 1891 in Zaumel in the Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Žeimelis in Northern Lithuania), where his father served as rabbi and was a prominent local Zionist.[9] His mother was his father's second wife, Reiza Rivka, the niece of Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem together with Shmuel Salant. Kook was named after his maternal grandfather, Zvi Yehuda Rabinowitz-Teomim.[10]
In 1896, his father, with his entire family, moved to Boisk, Latvia, where he ran a yeshiva and served as a parish rabbi. There Kook studied Talmud under the guidance of Rabbi Reuven Gotfreud, the son-in-law of Yoel Moshe Salomon,[a] one of the founders of Petah Tikva. Later, from 1999 onward, Kook was also tutored by Benjamin Menashe Levin, a guest of their family.[b] His father, until his dying day, was to remain Kook's principal teacher, though at this time he hired a private tutor to teach his son Russian.[11]
In 1904, at age 13, Kook moved to
In 1906, Kook, by then 15, went to study at
Feeling that he had not devoted enough time to Torah study he first went to Porat Yoseph, the leading Sephardic yeshiva of Jerusalem. Then, on Binyamin Levin's suggestion, he left for Halberstadt, Germany to teach at the local yeshiva and study philosophy.[15] In addition to his own studies, Kook taught Talmud, halakha, and Bible to young men in the area.[16]
With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Kook was arrested as a citizen of the Russian Empire, an enemy of Germany. After several weeks in a detention camp in Hamburg, he was released and allowed to return to Halberstadt, where he needed to report once every two days in the local office. Only the following year, at the end of 1915, was he granted permission to leave Germany and join his father, who was stranded in St. Gallen, Switzerland,[17] due to the war. There he continued to study under his father's guidance, until the latter left to fill a rabbinic position in London in 1916.[18]
In 1920, he returned to Palestine (then under the British Mandate) and began teaching at Netzakh Israel school. A year later, he went to Europe to promote his father's new movement, Degel Yerushalayim (lit. 'Standard of Jerusalem') a spiritual complement of secular Zionism.[19]
In 1922, he married Chava Leah Hutner in Warsaw. Chava Leah died childless in February 1944, and Kook refused to remarry, remaining a widower until his death nearly 40 years later.[20][f] From 1923, he served as the administrative director of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva. After Harlap died in 1952, he became Rosh Yeshiva until his own death. The yeshiva assumed its present stature only much later.
Kook père had died in 1935, at a time when religious thinkers had a negligible impact on the
Kook wrote little in his final years. His remarks were elliptical in their allusive references to rabbinical traditions many of his followers were unfamiliar with, and his authority rested more on his charismatic figure – charisma was something his father stressed – than his writings.[25] He died in Jerusalem on 9 March 1982, which coincided with Purim that year,[26] and was buried in the Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery.[1] His passing created a leadership vacuum within Gush Emunim, which subsequently moved in the direction of collective decision making.[25]
Ideology
Zionism began as a secular movement often led by disbelievers many of whom rejected Jewish religious traditions, one of which held that any collective "return" of the Jewish people, as opposed to individual aliyah, depended on the direct intervention of the Messiah. The Kooks' innovation consisting in elaborating a theology that bridged the gap between a faith that saw Zionism as a heresy, and the Zionist programme for the development of a secular state for Jews. As Kook's father phrased it, a Jewish polity must "build secularly and sanctify afterwards."[27]
The process of redemption
Zvi Kook, together with Harlap, was heir to a tradition of messianic demonizing thought going back at least to
Within Gush Emunim, now defunct,[30] his words were often reported and taken to be akin to prophecies.[25] In Kook's vision, Jews were unique, the yardstick for mankind, with Judaism forming the core of humanity and reality itself, and Israel analogized to the soul while the world at large was likened to the body.[31][l]In this context, Zvi Kook extended the ideas of his father[m] and his fellow student of kabbalah Harlap, who had an outlook of hostility to Gentiles and asserted that the failure of the peoples of the world to surrender to Israel would cause their downfall. Kook took this Jewish nationalism as in fact cosmopolitan, in the sense that the redemption of the world was contingent on Israel, an idea that proved influential with the early Hapoel HaMizrachi thinkers.[34]
Kook saw in the establishment of the modern State of Israel a major step in the redemption of the Jewish people (Atḥalta de-geulah). Many Torah scholars envision redemption as a future era that arrives complete from the very start, and not an ongoing process.[n] Kook claimed that the process was evidenced in the development of Israeli agriculture where every tomato and banana was invested with "sanctity".[35] He based this idea on (Ezekiel 36:24–28): But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home, and Rashi's gloss on the way it had been interpreted as an indication of the End by Rabbi Abba at Sanhedrin 9. Rashi wrote: "When the Land of Israel gives its fruit nicely, then the End is near, and there is no more [to the] revealed End [than this]."[35][36][o]
According to his disciple, rabbi Eliyahu Avichail, who founded the immigrant organization Amishav in 1975, Kook himself advised him to search for dispersed communities of Jews who had lost contact with their roots, prepare them for conversion (giyur) and facilitate their "return" to Israel. He believed he had discovered such lost Jews, putative remnants of the Ten Lost Tribes, in India and Nepal among Tibetan-Burmese peoples such as the Mizo and Hmar. Though initially considered a "crackpot", Avichail succeeded, after conferring on these peoples the ethnonym Bnei Menashe, in having some two thousand relocated in Israel, especially in the Israeli settlement near the Palestinian city of Hebron, namely Kiryat Arba, through financial assistance from his philanthropical sponsor Irving Moskowitz.[37][38]
Hostility to Christianity
Though his own father was long tempted by the antinomian strain of Jewish messianism, World War I had led him to conclude that the great source of contemporary evil lay in the antinomian
He began to outline his opinions in this regard in 1952, after concluding that Israel's establishment constituted a war against
When the Vatican hoisted the Israeli flag on the occasion of Golda Meir's visit to Pope Paul VI in 1973, Kook sneered at the pope as an old galakh (shaven, i.e. tonsured Christian priest) unashamedly raising a symbol that signified the destruction of Christendom.[42] He wanted to rid Israel of Christian and ultimately Western influences, something that extended down to opposing the use of the Gregorian civil calendar.[45] He avoided reading his father's works in the light of Western philosophy because that would be a form of "spiritual miscegenation".[46] This influenced his views of Judaism, the authentic version being that practiced and taught in modern Israel as opposed to the Judaism of the exilic diaspora, which was, he thought, irremediably inflected by the deleterious effects of living among Christians.[43]
His writings on this theme circulate among Israeli settlers, or Torah purists aspiring to a life of secluded study and, conversely, among anti-semites.[47]
The theology of war
Sometimes among his acolytes called the "prophet of Greater Israel",[48] Kook's father had taught that settlement of the land should come about by peaceful means, not by war.[s] In 1938 the rabbi of Tel Aviv, Moshe Avigdor Amiel (1883-1946), argued that even if the redemption were to be enabled by killing Arabs, that option would have to be repudiated since it would mean redemption through bloodshed.[49]
Nonetheless, his mystical meditations on war, published in 1921 and edited by Zvi Kook with the title Orot me-Ofel (Lights from the Gloom), which would assume great significance after 1967 among his son's settler acolytes, could be read as providing Kook's rabbinical endorsement for using war to appropriate land,[50] as in the following passages:
When there is a great war in the world, the power of Messiah is aroused.The time of song (zamir) has arrived, the scything (zamir) of tyrants, the wicked perish from the world, and the world is invigorated and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.[51]
The ability demanded of the Jewish people is the ability to appropriate the powers of the nations, Esau's aggressive powers,[t] and to use them on the path to the "celestial Jerusalem."[52]
At the same time, dissenters could challenge this use of Kook's authority by citing another passage from the same tract:-
Until such happy times as it will be feasible to conduct an independent national policy without recourse to vicious and barbaric practices.. it is not in the interest of Jacob to wield sovereignty, when this entails wholesale bloodshed and ingenuiity of a sinister kind.[50]
Zvi Kook, with his irredentist perspective, ratcheted up a notch his father's theology of war. Every one of the wars engaged in, prior to the establishment of the state down to the Yom Kippur war, were, in his interpretation, stages on the path of Israel's redemption.[52] While ruling out aggressive war,[53] Zvi Kook did preach that recourse to military force was justified if Arabs refused to acknowledge Jewish rights to the land and if they also opted to wage war. According to his former student, David Samson
He compared [our situation] to a man who was forcefully expelled from his home, which others seized and trespassed upon. That is exactly what happened to us. Rav Kook stressed that the Arabs had, and have, absolutely no national right to the land. If they deny the justice of our cause, and choose to go to war against us, we must persuade them – he said – with our tanks.[26]
Political views
The teachings of Zvi Kook are considered to be the source for the ongoing tension among Israeli settlers between the idea that the state of Israel is sacred, and doubts whether its secular authority could be exercised independently,[54]
Initially, Zvi Kook had expressed unreserved support for Zionism, and was fiercely opposed to orthodox critics of that ideology,
At a 1974 lecture delivered at Merkaz Haraz in the presence of Moshe Dayan, he stated that moves to yield the Golan, and the West Bank would lead to a war, one that would be fought "over our bodies and limbs". The Gush Emunim movement predominantly formed by religious Zionists soon came under the dominating influence of graduates from Mercaz HaRav driven by a messianic activism to thwart territorial compromises.[60] Surrendering territory was, he taught, as strictly forbidden as eating pork, since foreign sovereignty over any part of the Land of Israel would be treif.[26]
Eventually Zvi Kook came round to considering the Israeli government itself as illegitimate, as a tyrannical dictatorship. It was an offense to God to seek
He staunchly opposed any political moves to relinquish parts of the Land of Israel. "We are not a nation of conquerors. We are returning to the land of our fathers. No one, no prime minister, has the authority to renounce any part of the country. It belongs to the entire people of Israel, to the Jews of Pakistan, the United States and the Soviet Union."[1]
Relationship with Meir Kahane
According to the widow of Rabbi
According to his student Rabbi Uzi Kalheim, however, Kook's support of Kahane was more nuanced. The rabbi approved of Kahane's activities in the U.S. to protect Jews and bolster Jewish pride. But in Israel, Kook did not agree with Kahane's positions but felt that Kahane should have the right to a place in the Knesset and express his views there, even though Kook did not assent to them. He is quoted as explicitly writing that his support for Kahane was "without any identification with or connection to the specifics of his words and aims".[66]
Views on Palestinians/Arabs
Kook's view was that Israel's struggle with the Arabs over the Land of Israel is a national one. While denying that Jews had ever expelled Palestinians in the
On several occasions he sent letters to newspapers expressing his displeasure over reports that Arabs were being maltreated.[26]
Students
Zvi Kook's influence as a religious authority on the fundamentalist rabbis who drove the settler movement has been thought of as to some degree analogous to the impact of religious figures like
The most well known among his students are rabbis
Writings
Most of the younger Kook's published works were editions and collections of his father's work, but many of his original articles and letters were later collected and published in book form.[72]
- Collections of articles: Or Lenetivati, Lenetivot Israel, two volumes.
- Collections of letters: Tzemach Tzvi, Dodi Litzvi. Some of his letters are printed in Igrot HaRa'aya.
- Lectures: Sichot HaRav Tzvi Yehuda on the Torah (5 volumes), Mesilat Yesharim, Moadim (festivals), etc., by Rabbi Shlomo Aviner.
See also
Notes
- ^ Salomon descended from a family that, inspired by the this-worldly messianism of the Vilna Gaon, had emigrated to Palestine in the early 19th century, and in the Old Yishuv, as distinct from the Perushim (separatist ascetics) following the Gaon's principles, Salomon's family constituted a religious clan notable for creating institutional infrastructure. It was this Salomon who had engineered the Kook family's aliyah in 1904, after convincing a committee to nominate the father Abraham to succeed the recently deceased rabbi of Jaffa (Mirsky 2014, pp. 40–41, 45).
- ^ Benjamin Menashe Levin (1879-1944) was a Talmudic studies prodigy (iluy) and later authored Otzar HaGeonim, a foundational study on Geonic halakha (Mirsky 2014, pp. 11, 33–34; Mirsky 2021).
- ^ After making aliyah in 1886 Yitzhak Vinograd founded the Torat Haim Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Zerah Epstein had preceded him, arriving in Palestine in 1881, and subsequently headed the school (Shohet 2013, pp. 49–50).
- ^ "the father's influence is imprinted in every bit of the son's writings." (Ben-Johanan 2022, p. 197)
- ^ Kook's responsum arose in the context of a crisis, a sense of impending catastrophe, among mystics at Jerusalem's Beit El Kabbalist yeshiva caused by the Aleppo rabbi Ḥaim Shaul Dweck haCohen ((1857-1933)) who broke with that school's tradition by reviving the practice advocated by Shalom Shar'abi regarding the minutiae of performance of mindful devotion in prayer (kavanah) during the Sabbatical year (Giller 2008, pp. 71–73)
- ^ Zealots in Jerusalem gossiped that his wife's early death, and their childlessness, among other misfortunes in the Kook families, were punishments resulting from curses by Kabbalists laid against the Kooks for their unforgivable sins (Mirsky 2014, p. 224).
- ^ Gahelet is an acronym for "Nucleus of Torah-Learning Pioneers" and means Embers in Hebrew (Lustick 1988, p. 34).
- ^ "Gahelet was a group of students at a school belonging to Israel's non-orthodox stream, which was then at its lowest ebb. Possessed of a naïve, intense enthusiasm for traditional religious Judaism, coupled with feelings of inferiority and envy with regard to the modern secular Zionist world, these young people sought to participate in the dynamics and achievements of that world. They developed a strikingly original and ambitious worldview that differed significantly from both religious and secular-national perspectives, and they sought religious validation for their initiative in a father-son team of rabbis ... members of Gahelet appropriated the doctrine of Rabbi Kook the Elder, transforming it from the esoteric and quietistic dogma of a small and marginal circle into a gospel which spread through Israel to serve as a platform for the ensuing activism. By adopting Rabbi Kook the Younger as their spiritual leader, members of Gahelet propelled him from the status of a forgotten, ridiculed figure at the margins of the Torah and Zionist worlds into an outstanding Israeli personality with a magnetic influence on a broad circle." (Aran 1994, pp. 270–271)
- ^ Kook père's metaphoris adapted from the Kabbalistic idiom kelippat nogah, the "luminous shell" on the limimal margins between good and evil (Mirsky 2014, p. 40)
- ^ The idea goes back to Isaac Luria (1534-1572):"Luria synthesized the disparate cosmological, metaphysical, and theological doctrines that preceded him into a mythic vision of primordial creation as a great drama of divine withdrawal and resulting catastrophe that set in motion all cosmic history. God, as it were, contracted Himself, leaving in the empty space thus created vestiges of divine light in 'vessels,' nodal points of boundless divine energy contained by a corresponding principle of restraint. Unable to contain the divine light, the vessels shattered, scattering sparks of divine goodness and crude husks of shattered vessels, which together compose the forces of good and evil pulsating through the universe." (Mirsky 2014, pp. 26–27)
- ^ His father thought the idea Israel was superseded by Christianity something that made Christianity intolerable and therefore something to be blotted out. He saw himself as a warrior "fighting our lengthy war, the Lord's war with Amalek, a war of erasing from under the heavens, a war of blotting out all memory." (Ben-Johanan 2016, p. 78)
- ^ ".'It was (his) contention that the people of Israel were distinguished from the rest of the nations by some of life's most basic elements: the relation ship between body and soul, the relationship between humanity and the universe, and the social relationships between people. When the people of Israel are in their normal state, their uniqueness is evident in all these levels of existence. Kook thus wished to place the uniqueness of Jewish existence on the political agenda to ensure that the government of Israel would take steps to provide the conditions that would allow it to flourish." (Ben-Johanan 2022, p. 201)
- ^ As early as 1894-1896, in his essay on shlemut entitled Midbar Shur (The Desert of Shur), Kook's father argued that perfection required that Israel remain distinct from other nations, as the soul remained distinct from matter.[32]"He taught that the mundane sensible world of ritual observance, rationality, and scientific inference is important as, but is no more than, a vehicle for preparing human beings to approach and eventually apprehend a much more fundamental spiritual reality. This other realm, immanent within the outer world of sensation and cognition, is pervaded by the pulsating illumination of the 'Divine psyche.' For most peoples, at most times, the spiritual energy flowing continuously from this realm is displaced and distorted into various forms of idolatry because they cannot absorb 'the light emanating from the universal spiritual psyche.' The 'instinctive excellence' of the Jewish people consists in the presence of 'the Divine sensitivity at the core of its being,' which permits Jews, as individuals, and as a collectivity, to experience and express the divine illumination in pure, nonidolatrous form."[33]
- ^ The idea that atḥalta de-geulah has begun with the establishment of the state of Israel is, according to Louis Jacobs, "a concept for which there is little support in the tradition." (Jacobs 1990, p. 73)
- ^ The idea is present already in the father's writings. Speaking of the ostensible decline of Judaism in a period of national renaissance (and agitations which, divorced from religion, sucked up its fructifying power), he wrote."These developments cannot go on in their chaotic form. We must mend with courage and with knowledge past abuses. We must gather up all spiritual trends that have been dispersed to their center, to ingather the spiritual fugitives of Israel and the dispersed of Judah. Through this spiritual potency for the ingathering of the exiles there will be released the physical potency for the ingathering upon the holy soil, the place suited for the realization of all ideals in their different aspects from potentiality to actuality. This will be effected not through individuals or parties, but through the nation, through the aggregate of the community of Israel, which will blossom in the beloved land, the fairest heritage of any nation" (Kook 1991, p. 284)
- ^ His father told him that as a child, he could smell the stench of toilets whenever he passed Christian houses (Ben-Johanan 2022, pp. 197, 202).
- ^ These views are already present in his father's writings, who also likened Christianity to "a dog swallowing feces, feeding itself from the filth that was secreted out of Judaism in the figure of Jesus." (Ben-Johanan 2016, p. 93).
- ^ "Zvi Yehudah Kook's writings on Christianity are the most virulent pronouncements on the subject one can find, probably throughout the entire Jewish world." (Ben-Johanan 2022, p. 197)
- Noahide Laws), and if the enemy were idolaters (this would exclude Muslims and Christians) it would still be necessary for the Court to examine their moral condition before declaring the war justified." (Solomon 2005, p. 306)
- ^ In rabbinical thought, Esau became a metaphor and code word for Rome and subsequently Christianity (Hacohen 2019, pp. 55–90).
- ^ "Nineteen years ago, on the night when news of the United Nations decision in favor of the re-establishment of the state of Israel reached us, when the people streamed into the streets to celebrate and rejoice, I could not go out and join in the jubilation. I saty alone in silence; a burden lay upon me. During those first hours I could not resign myself to what had been done. I could not accept the fact that indeed "they have.. divided My Land "(Joel 4:2)! … where is our Hebron. Have we forgotten her?! Where is our Shechem, our Jericho-where? Have we forgotten them?" (Frey 2007, p. 88)
- ^ "Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda invited Meir to accompany him to the Western Wall. Before they went, the rabbi asked another student, Rabbi Yaakov Filber, to bring his camera, and they were photographed together in the sukka and again at the Western Wall. Rabbi Yosef Bramson pointed out that Kook did not like to be photographed, but he admired Meir so much that he actually requested it." (Kahane 2008, p. 225)
- ^ Aviner, in his book The Christian Enemy, developed Kook's ideas, arguing that:"human history began with idolaters; the Israeli nation appeared and disseminated morality among the human race; idolaters struggled against God's people but were unable to vanquish them until, ultimately, 'in the face of a combined attack by evil men from without and evil passions from within,' the people of Israel collapsed and withdrew into themselves, and their influence over the nations was lost," occasioning the rise of Christianity (Ben-Johanan 2022, p. 225).
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- ^ a b Weisburd 2010, p. 22.
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- ^ Lustick 1988, p. 29.
- ^ Hoch 1994, pp. 90–118.
- ^ Pedahzur 2012, p. 37.
- ^ a b c d e f Inbari 2012, p. 18.
- ^ Volbershtein 2010, p. 4.
- ^ Volbershtein 2010, pp. 5–6.
- ^ Volbershtein 2010, p. 10.
- ^ Auerbach 1996, p. 147.
- ^ Volbershtein 2010, pp. 14–15.
- ^ Mirsky 2014, pp. 118–119.
- ^ Volbershtein 2010, p. 18.
- ^ Ben-Pazi 2017, p. 275.
- ^ Volbershtein 2010, pp. 20–21.
- ^ Ish-Shalom 2012, pp. 24–25.
- ^ Inbari 2012, p. 19.
- ^ Hoch 1994, p. 91.
- ^ a b Lustick 1988, p. 34.
- ^ Ben-Johanan 2022, p. 221.
- ^ Zinger & Ish-Shalom 2007, p. 290.
- ^ a b c Lustick 1988, p. 92.
- ^ a b c d e Fishman & Samson 2019.
- ^ Hoch 1994, pp. 90–91.
- ^ Juergensmeyer 2003, p. 56.
- ^ Hoch 1994, pp. 91–92.
- ^ Newman 2007, p. 145.
- ^ Schwartz 2002, pp. 160, 163–164.
- ^ Mirsky 2014, p. 25.
- ^ Lustick 1988, p. 30.
- ^ Schwartz 2002, pp. 163–164.
- ^ a b Hoch 1994, p. 101.
- ^ Kook 1967, pp. 181–184, 192–200.
- ^ Neuman 2018, pp. 155–156.
- ^ Egorova 2016, p. 38.
- ^ Mirsky 2014, p. 125.
- ^ Ben-Johanan 2016, p. 77.
- ^ a b c d Brill & Neiss 2012, p. 56.
- ^ a b Ben-Johanan 2022, p. 202.
- ^ a b Ben-Johanan 2022, p. 205.
- ^ Ben-Johanan 2022, p. 203.
- ^ Ben-Johanan 2022, pp. 197, 201.
- ^ Mirsky 2014, p. 221.
- ^ Brill & Neiss 2012, p. 57.
- ^ Frey 2007, p. 273.
- ^ Solomon 2005, p. 306.
- ^ a b Lustick 1988, pp. 93–94.
- ^ Ben-Pazi 2017, pp. 271–272.
- ^ a b Ben-Pazi 2017, p. 274.
- ^ Solomon 2005, p. 307.
- ^ Inbari 2012, p. 14.
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