Views On Religion
Gordon remained an Orthodox Jew throughout most of his life. It was only in his later years that he began to abandon the commandments. Students of his writings have found that Gordon was greatly influenced by Russian author Leo Tolstoy, as well as by the Hassidic movement and the Kabbalah. Many have also found parallels between his ideas and those of his contemporary, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the spiritual father of Religious Zionism.
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