Pinchas Polonsky

Pinchas Polonsky (Hebrew: פנחס פולונסקי, Russian: Полонский Пётр (Пинхас) Ефимович, born 11 February 1958) is a rabbi, Russian-Israeli Jewish-religious philosopher, researcher, and educator active among the Russian-speaking Jewish community.

He lives in Israel, is an activist in the process of the modernization of Judaism and is a researcher on the topics of Rav Kook.

Born 1958 in Moscow into a family of secular assimilated Jews,[3] he attended Special Math School No.

1987: one of the initiators in the founding of the Israeli branch of Machanaim; remained a faculty member and editor-in-chief until 2012.

[5] This initiative launched by Pinchas Polonsky began with an underground edition of the Pesach Haggadah with commentaries in the 1980s in Moscow.

The Haggadah was published using photocopying equipment and distributed in hundreds of copies across Moscow and other major cities of the former Soviet Union.

The book was approved by several major rabbinical authorities on the subject of Rav Kook's philosophy and was recommended by them to be included in the Religious Zionist academic curriculum.

The goal of the project is the publication of a complementary (to Wikipedia and other sources), academically viable information on Judaism, Jews and Israel on the Russian-language Internet.

Polonsky supports an integration of universal ideas into religion creating a healthy symbiosis.

[citation needed] Polonsky is an advocate for access to and prayer at the Temple Mount for Jews.

[citation needed] Polonsky is the author of the concept of "Three Stages of the Arrival of the Messiah" (as opposed to the two-stage approach, widely accepted by religious Zionism today).