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Abraham Isaac Kook: The Lights of Penitence, the Moral Principles, Lights of Holiness, Essays, Letters, and Poems

by Abraham Isaac Kook, Ben Zion Bokser

Pages: 418

Contributors: Abraham Isaac Kook,Ben Zion Bokser

Publisher: Paulist Press

Place of Publication: New York

Publication Year: 1978

Subjects: Judaism,Ethics, Jewish,Repentance--Judaism,Mysticism--Judaism

Table of Contents

Title Page

The Classics of Western Spirituality a Library of the Great Spiritual Masters

Contents

Editor of the Volume:

Authors of the Preface

Preface I

Preface II

Foreword

Introduction

The Lights of Penitence

Introduction

Chapter One Penitence According to Nature, Faith and Reason

Chapter Two Sudden and Gradual Penitence

Chapter Three Particularized Penitence and General Penitence

Chapter Four Private Penitence and Public Penitence-- in the World and in the Jewish People

Chapter Five the Inevitability of Penitence and Its Effects in Man, in the World, and in the Jewish People

Chapter Six the Prevalence and Inner Action of Penitence in the Hidden Depths of Man, the World and the Jewish People

Chapter Eight the Pangs of Sin, the Suffering of Penitence and the Healing of Its Affliction

Chapter Nine the Significance of the Will That is Manifest in Penitence

Chapter Ten the Interdependence of Penitence and the Torah in Their General Nature and in Their Highest Significance

Chapter Eleven the Sources of Penitence in the Universal Realms of Being and the Highest Dimension of the Spiritual

Chapter Twelve the Influence of Penitence on the Ways of the Spirit, on Life and on Behavior Generally

Chapter Thirteen the Ways of Spiritual and Practical Penitence

Chapter Fourteen the Ways of Individual Penitence

Chapter Fifteen the Basis of Penitence for the Individual and the Community

Chapter Sixteen the Roots of Penitence and Its Inner Action

Chapter Seventeen the Great Revelation of Penitence in the Life of the Jewish People and Its Revival in Our Lord

The Moral Principles

Lights of Holiness

Essays

Letters

Poems

Bibliographies

Index to Foreword, Preface and Introductions

Index to Texts

Chapter Seven the Value of Thoughts About Penitence, Its Vision and Conception

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