Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook (1865-1935), first Chief Rabbi of the Holy Land, was a brilliant thinker and mystic whose ideas explored deeply modern...

Yaacov David Shulman
Yaacov David Shulman

Yaacov David Shulman is a writer and translator specializing in Torah-related literature. 

He has written non-fiction expositions of Breslov Hasidic teachings, popular biographies of historical Torah figures, and poetry.

He has translated teachings of Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook, Breslov Hasidism, writings of R. Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (the Piaseszner Rebbe), Chabad, and so forth.

He lives in Efrat, Israel.

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Eight Journals: Journal One

Shemonah Kevatzim
From the series: Rav Kook

Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook (1865-1935), first Chief Rabbi of the Holy Land, was a brilliant thinker and mystic whose ideas explored deeply modern philosophical and social currents. All topics—from poetry to war, from divine immanence to nationalism and universalism—caught his attention and were refracted through his ever-searching mind and...

The Map of the World: And Other Hasidic Tales

Marvelous Hasidic tales: miracles, holy men, family dilemmas, anti-Semites overcome, piety and goodness, poverty and wealth, despair and hope, kings and wicked viceroys, and teachings of joy and optimism! Rabbi Abraham Shtern, Torah scholar, kabbalist, and author, was born in Tishevitz, Lublin district of Poland, to a Hasidic family on July 12,...

Hear My Voice in the Morning: Selected Psalms

Discover the psalms in a modern vernacular that speaks to our hearts today, a language that is fresh and up-to-date poetry and at the same time a scholarly translation, the work of a writer known for both his original poetry and his translations.of classical spiritual texts.