"On the desolate ruins wrought by heresy, the sublime knowledge of God will build her temple." - Abraham Isaac Kook, known as Rav Kook and also by the acronym הראי״ה (HaRaAYaH), Orthodox rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine.
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Image of Rav Kook.
@nils_gilman Chesterton, as religious anthropologist, coincides here with Felix S. Cohen's fundamentally indigenous recognition of a peculiarly American dimension to the great project of democracy. Heschel, as others, points Israel's way: "...not to reject, but surpass civilization."
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Copy of tweet: Getting grounded in the Laws of the Earth. “The real epic of America is the yet unfinished story of the Americanization of the White Man, the transformation of the fear-ridden, intolerant men that came to these shores with Columbus and John Smith.”