Lights of Teshuvah by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook

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Translator Yaacov David Shulman

Lights of Teshuvah is a new translation of Orot Hateshuvah, the quintessential work of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935), first Chief Rabbi of the Holy Land and one of the most important Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century.

Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik calls this book “Rav Kook’s most philosophically developed work,” and points out its “most significant innovation as being that teshuvah (‘return’) is not connected to sin per se but is comprised of man’s returning to himself, returning to his source.”

Rabbi Chanan Morrison calls this translation “more accurate and closer to the original Hebrew than Ben Zion Bokser’s 1978 translation (in the Classics of Western Spirituality series).”

And Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb adds that it “captures the language, the poetry and the beauty of Rav Kook’s Hebrew.”

The translator has authored, translated and edited fifty books of Jewish spiritual and literary value. His work may be viewed at shulman-writer.com and dotletterword.com.