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Included in this section are articles written by Dr. Natan Ophir in areas of Jewish Thought. Below are abstracts: 1) Rav Kook & Dr. Revel: Their Shared Vision for a Central Universal Yeshiva From the Introduction:Although volumes have been written about Rav Abraham Yitzhak Hacohen Kook (1865–1935), the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Palestine, little has been researched about his Central Universal Yeshiva (CUY). Popularly known as Yeshivat Mercaz Harav, and referred to as the flagship institution of modern religious Zionism, it began in the 1920's as the first Hebrew language yeshivah of higher learning in Palestine. The name Mercaz Harav referred to "the circle of students" in the beit midrash adjacent to the Chief Rabbi’s residence - the abbreviated name was meant to emphasize that the modest beginnings were merely a precursor to a grand universal vision of CUY. This article describes a little known aspect of this international vision - the proposed joint venture between R. Kook and R. Dr. Bernard (Dov) Revel, the founder of Yeshiva College in New York. From the conclusion: In sum, the weltanschauung of Mercaz Harav had a much more restricted impact on modern Orthodoxy in Western countries than R. Kook had envisioned. Similarly, Yeshiva University did not establish an exchange program with Mercaz Harav and the influence of R. Kook's Torat Eretz Yisrael was far more limited than R. Revel had hoped for. But, the historical reconstruction of events in this article portrays the academic openness" of R. Kook as part of his Messianic-Utopian vision, a variegated panorama allowing a pedagogical spectrum of innovations. 2) "Liturgical Innovations of God Language in Jewish Feminist Theology", in Margalit Shilo (ed.), To Be A Jewish Woman, volume 2, Proceedings of the Second International Conference: Woman and Her Judaism, Jerusalem 2003, pp. 56-75. This article analyzes the impact of Jewish feminist theology on liturgical innovations of God language. An earlier version, published in 2003, was based on two lectures: a presentation at the 13th World Congress of Jewish Studies at Hebrew University Jerusalem, August 12, 2001, entitled "Feminist Theology and Its Influence on Concepts of Divinity in Modern Jewish Philosophy", and a similar lecture presented at the 2nd international conference of Kolech in Jerusalem, June 2001.
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