High Priest of Rebirth: The Life, Times and Thought of Abraham Isaac Kuk

'High Priest of Rebirth' expands the horizons of mystical energy to include the vast divergent fields of science and culture in the modern world. Rabbi Kuk continues to insist on peculiar transcendence of Torah, but the range of the holy, for him, embraces the spheres of human culture and science. To secular life, he adds the feeling of compatibility of all ideals and their metaphysical unity. To religious life, he adds the sense of participating in the 'perfection of the world' (shichlul haolam).