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Nation
Significance of the National Revival of Israel
“Abraham heard the vast realm of the divine calling to existence: ‘Be illumined; calling to every particular being: Fill yourself with happiness, greatness, loftiness, peace, good, strength, love and delight.’…
Rebirth of a Nation
Just in time for a time like this,
when the rebirth of the Nation [of Israel] is awakening
and becoming actualized in colorfully diverse ways every day;
and when the whole entire Earth is quaking in a tumultuous war
whose hidden overall objective is certainly,
Thoughts on Nationalism
The world order that is now toppling due to the awesome storms of a sword covered with blood demands the construction of the Israelite nation.
Song of Israel
There is another who sings the song of his people… and he attaches himself with a gentle love to the whole community of Israel. Together with her he sings her songs.
Humanity
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Existence
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Parshat Hashavua – Weekly TOrah Portion
PARSHAT RE’EH: RAV KOOK ON ‘HOW TO BE HAPPY’
“We can thus fully actualize the exalted ideals of life.
The Torah of Israel is outstanding in crystallizing the idealism that will spread across all of the configurations of life.” (Rav Kook)
PARSHAT EKEV: RAV KOOK ON ‘FEARING GOD FEARLESSLY’
“Let us fear God in ways that bear love and inner delight and elevate and vitalize all the potentialities of our soul.” -Rav Kook
PARSHAT VAETCHANAN: RAV KOOK ON ‘UNITING EXISTENCE’
“All life endeavors must be directed to disclose the light of the higher general harmony.”
PARSHAT MATTOT/MAASEI: RAV KOOK ON ISRAEL’S RESPONSIBILITY TO UNITE THE WORLD
The Israelite understanding of the world and life is at its foundation the dominance of the unified world perspective over the separated world perspective….
TORAT HA’RAV KOOK ON REPAIRING THE WORLD WITH UNCONDITIONAL LOVE- I24TV Interview before Tisha Be’Av
This ITV interview dealt with Rav Kook’s teachings of the Three Weeks leading to the Ninth of Av: “Unconditional love is the repair to needless hatred.” (Rav Kook)
PARSHAT PINCHAS: RAV KOOK ON HOW TO BE A HOLY ZEALOT.
“Divine zealotry will become an active force that spreads love to the entire expanse of life.” -Rav Kook
Holy Days
TU’BE AV: RAV KOOK ON LOVE
“The heart must be filled with love for all.
“The love of all creation comes first, then comes the love for all humankind.”
HARAV KOOK ON REPAIRING TISHA BE’AV AND THE WORLD WITH THE POWER OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
“If we [the second Temple] were destroyed, and the world with us, through needless hatred, we will be re-built and the world with us, through unconditional love.” (Rav Kook)
RAV KOOK ON JERUSALEM AS THE GATEWAY TO EDEN:
“Yerushalayim, and Zion in particular, is a teaching about the return of humankind to its highest status -to the point that all the nations who divided into many streams in the past will return to form one pure and good unit”. -Rav Kook, TZ”L
The sound of the monster Shofar
שופר של חיה טמאה נהפך לשופרו של משיח. עמלק, פיטלורה, היטלר, וכו', מעוררים לגאולה" “The shofar of the impure animal is transformed into the shofar of Messiach. Amalek...Hitler and their ilk are awakening redemption.” -Rav Kook-Rosh HaShana, 1933 It is Yom HaZicaron...
“IN COMES THE WINE, OUT COME THE SECRETS”
This is from an article in HaYesod that Rav Kook penned on his last Purim, in 1935 What is the significance of the Talmudic instruction to drink on the holiday of Purim? The Sages taught, “Wine enters, and secrets emerge” (Eiruvin 65a). In our generation, we very...
“GO GATHER ALL THE JEWS”
Rav Kook wrote the following article in HaTor (the weekly periodical of the Mizrahi) in 1934, during the rise of Nazism in Germany: During these days of Purim, in this difficult time, we are besieged by many troubles from without, sufferings that afflict the entire...
