Yaacov David Shulman

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Poems reflecting the author's encounters with teachings of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook (1865-1935), Torah leader, scholar, mystic and philosopher. Cynthia Ozick said of the author's Little Psalms: "I so much liked your perfect Little Psalms, some of them so much in the spirit (and often the language-of-feeling) of Yiddish poetry. You've created a fine amalgam of the American tongue and its sensibilities, and your new/old yeshiva explorations." Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb said of the author's translations of Rabbi Kook: "Yaacov David Shulman is a master translator who is able to capture the language, the poetry and the beauty of Rav Kook's Hebrew, which is often very difficult to read in the original, even by people who are very literate in Hebrew