Vision, Creativity, and Faith: The Thought of Rav Kook for the Modern World (Part 3): Did the Rabbis Add Too Many Mitzvot?
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Rav Ari Shvat (Chwat)
Rav Ari (Chwat) Shvat is director of Rav Kook’s archives in Beit HaRav, and is considered a world authority on his writings and philosophy. He served for several decades among the heads of the Israeli and overseas one-year seminary programs for young women at the Michlelet Orot Israel College and other programs for higher education. Raised in Riverdale, New York, he did the Hesder Program at the Ohr Etzion and Kiryat Arba yeshivot, where he received smicha and served as…