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e-TiM: Vision, Creativity, and Faith: The Thought of Rav Kook for the Modern World

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Dates

January 26, 2026 to March 2, 2026

Time

Mondays 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern

Next class

Monday January 26, 2026

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Vision, Creativity, and Faith: The Thought of Rav Kook for the Modern World

Rav Ari Shvat (Chwat)

Rav Kook, the first Chief Rabbi of Eretz Yisrael, is undoubtedly one of the most innovative thinkers & prolific writers in the Jewish world of the past century. He may be most noted as spiritual father of religious-Zionism, but this series deals with his ideas on various other topics in the modern and post-modern world and society. His thought is generally unfamiliar to English-speakers, and this series hopes to expose them to many new and refreshing ideas.

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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

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