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Abraham Isaac Kook. Abraham Isaac Kook ( Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק הַכֹּהֵן קוּק; 7 September 1865 – 1 September 1935), known as HaRav Kook, [1] and also known by the Hebrew-language acronym Hara'ayah [2] ( הראי״ה ), [3] was an Orthodox rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine.
Isaac the Syrian (Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܐܝܣܚܩ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ; Arabic: إسحاق النينوي Ishaq an-Naynuwī; Greek: Ἰσαὰκ Σῦρος; c. 613 – c. 700), also remembered as Saint Isaac the Syrian, Isaac of Nineveh, Abba Isaac, Isaac Syrus and Isaac of Qatar, was a 7th-century Syriac Christian bishop and theologian best remembered for his written works on Christian asceticism.
The Binding of Isaac ( Biblical Hebrew: עֲקֵידַת יִצְחַק ), or simply " The Binding " ( הָעֲקֵידָה, hāʿAqēḏā ), is a story from chapter 22 of the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. In the biblical narrative, God orders Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac at Moriah. As Abraham begins to comply, having bound ...
Fear and Trembling. Fear and Trembling (original Danish title: Frygt og Bæven) is a philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard, published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio ( Latin for John of the Silence ). The title is a reference to a line from Philippians 2:12, which says to "continue to work out your salvation with fear and ...
Throughout his writings, Isaac the Syrian emphasized the necessity of stillness to purify the nous (see Homilies 1, 4, 19, and 48). [Note 2] Nonetheless, he also recognized the different roles within the body of the Church (i.e. that of hierarchs , clergy , monastics , and laymen ) and their different abilities to adhere to strict stillness and ...
Isaac ben Solomon Luria Ashkenazi ( Hebrew: יִצְחָק בן שלמה לוּרְיָא אשכנזי; c. 1534 [1] – July 25, 1572 [2] ), commonly known in Jewish religious circles as Ha'ari [a], Ha'ari Hakadosh [b] or Arizal, [c] was a leading rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Safed in the Galilee region of Ottoman Syria, now Israel.
History. When the Israel Festival Committee asked Stravinsky for a new work, he decided to set the story of Abraham and Isaac to a text in Hebrew, a language with which he was not familiar. The philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin, who was a friend of the composer, helped Stravinsky to understand the sounds and structure of the text.
The burning bush (or the unburnt bush) refers to an event recorded in the Jewish Torah (as also in the biblical Old Testament ). It is described in the third chapter of the Book of Exodus [1] as having occurred on Mount Horeb. According to the biblical account, the bush was on fire but was not consumed by the flames, hence the name. [2]