A playlist from The Jewish Story
Rav Kook and Religious Zionism
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About this playlist
Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook runs through the whole Jewish Story. These are the episodes where his ideas carry the weight, from the pioneers of the Second Aliyah to Gush Emunim.
Where this sits in the story
5 of 9 eras
The Second Temple600 BCE–70 CESages and Geonim70–1000Sefarad and Ashkenaz1000–1492After the Expulsion1492–1700Modernity Arrives1700–1880Return and Catastrophe1880–1948The Young State1948–1967After 19671967–1987Into the Present1987–2023
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