Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2015
Titel der Quelle:
מכלול; עיונים ביהדות, בחינוך ובמדע
Angaben zur Quelle:
לא (תשעה) 65-84
Keywords:
Krochmal, Nachman, Criticism and interpretation
;
Krochmal, Nachman,
;
Kook, Abraham Isaac,
;
Cohen, David,
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Jewish philosophy Study and teaching
Abstract:
This paper analyses the stances of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hacohen Kook and his student, Rabbi David Cohen regarding the writings of Rabbi Nachman Krochmal. A religious leader and maskil in Galicia during the first half of the 19th century, Krochmal was a figure who stood on the borderline between the traditional rabbinical world and the Jewish Enlightenment. His book "Moreh nevukhei hazeman" ("The Guide of the Perplexed of This Time") raises a wide variety of unorthodox subjects and treats them in ways that were acutely at odds with accepted norms in the Torah world of his generation. R. David Cohen envisioned the possibility of including study of Krochmal’s writings in the yeshivah curriculum which he proposed to R. Kook. The Nazir’s diary entries, however, record that R. Kook was opposed to study of Krochmal’s work. My discussion seeks a way to explain this dissonance between the stances of master and disciple. Through certain biographical details related to R. David Cohen, his unique stance on Krochmal’s writings comes to light.
Note:
כולל תקציר באנגלית.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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