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RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT EKEV: HOW TO FEAR HASHEM 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 of life’s endeavors must be directed to disclose the light of the higher general harmony.”
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
Parshat Balak: Rav Kook Prophesies That Israel Will Illuminate The World.
“Our nation will be built and established. It will return to its strength, to all its foundations of life through its faithfulness and reverence. [Israel’s] exalted Godly sanctification will expand, become courageous, perfect and grow strong….The hidden secret will become clear to all the nations and kingdoms that the world’s future depends on the revival of the community of Israel.”
PARSHAT CHUKAT: RAV KOOK ON MOSES’S FATAL ANGRY ERROR AT THE WATERS OF DISPUTATION AND WHAT WE MUST DO TO FIX IT
The Torah of Chesed/Kindness is the elevated Torah. The highest holiness can [only] come to the world in a peaceful way, with guidance that is full of calmness, tranquility and honor.
PARSHAT SHLACH: RAV KOOK ON “OVERCOMING SPYFULNESS”
“Often many obstacles can prevent one from fulfilling their own life path fully…One must overcome these with all one’s might…All the obstacles in the world cannot prevent one from living their lives fully.”
Humanity
HARAV KOOK ON TISHA B’AV: REPAIRING 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)
PARSHAT MASEI: RAV KOOK ON ISRAEL’S RESPONSIBILITY TO UNITE THE WORLD
The Israelite understanding of the world and life is at its foundation about the dominance of the unified world perspective over the separated world perspective….
WHAT RAV KOOK SAYS WE MUST DO IMMEDIATELY TO FIX THE WORLD: Step 1- OBEY THE LAWS OF NATURE
“We must act in harmony with the laws of life and protect the laws of nature, morality and the Torah. Thus we will repair and renew life’s vitality.”
RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT KEDOSHIM: HOW TO CREATE A WORLD OF UNIVERSAL LOVE
“The objective of the entire Torah is to remove the roadblocks so that universal love will spread and extend to all realms of life.” (Rav Kook)
RAV KOOK ON ‘MILCHAMA/WAR’: Part 2: ISRAEL MUST FIX THE WORLD
“Knesset Israel/The Community of Israel aspires to tikkun olam/repair the world in all its fullness and to effect purifying and original forgiveness. This comes not merely from the salvation of a human’s soul and improvement of their will….but rather from a comprehensive correction of the very cause of sins.” Rav Kook
RAV KOOK ON ‘MILCHAMA’:Part 1-WAR! WHY?
“We see that the spiritual and practical fabric of civilization in its present state can not prevent, despite all its glorious wisdom, wholesale slaughter and fearful world-destruction.”-Rav Kook
Existence
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Parshat Hashavua – Weekly TOrah Portion
RAV KOOK ON NOACH: HOW TO BE A COMPLETE TZADIK IN OUR GENERATION
“Noach was the complete tzadik of his generation because he fully integrated his emotions and intellect and was thus able to walk with Elohim.”
RAV KOOK ON BREISHIT: BEGINNING NOW AND AGAIN AND BETTER THAN EVER
“The Torah of Israel clarifies how the state of the world and human ethics are dependent on each other. It is clear that the improvement of the world is dependent on ethical improvement. This is the essence of the Israelite understanding of the Creator. ”
RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT KI TAVO: CREATING A WORLD ‘FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY’
“The highest sensibility in the soul of the people of Israel is the quest for universal justice and morality.”
RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT SHOFTIM: HOW TO CREATE A DIVINE SOCIETY
“The true purpose of societal life is to enable human beings to fill life with light and good, with justice and knowledge of the Divine.”
RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT RE’EH:HOW TO BE BLESSEDLY 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)
RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT EKEV: HOW TO FEAR HASHEM 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
Holy Days
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
RAV KOOK IN HONOR OF YOM HA’ATZMAUT: THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND NATIONALISM
“Our state, the State of Israel, is the foundation of God’s throne in the world- her whole desire is that God will be one and God’s Name one.” -Rav Kook
RAV KOOK ON THE SHOA: THE SOUND OF THE MONSTER SHOFAR
“The shofar of the impure animal is transformed into the shofar of Messiach. Amalek…Hitler and their ilk are awakening redemption.” -Rav Kook ZT”L in 1934
OUR FREEDOM AND THE BURNING OF CHAMETZ
“Intrinsic freedom is that exalted spirit by which a person- as well as the nation as a whole- is inspired to remain faithful to their inner essence, to the spiritual attribute of the Divine image within. It is that attribute which enables one to feel that their life has purpose and value.” – Rav Kook
PESACH FREEDOM AND LIBERATION
“The foundational essence of freedom is that elevated spirit by which a human being and a nation rises to be loyal to their inner being-to the Tzelem Elokim-The Divine Image within.”
RAV KOOK ON PURIM: “GO, GATHER ALL THE JEWS”
“The eternal words ‘Go, gather all the Jews’ must once again revitalize us and elevate us. In the final analysis, we are, and shall be, one nation, and Israel shall once again rise to the eternal words ‘Go, gather all the Jews’.”- Rav Kook
Rav Kook/History
RAV KOOK ON ELUL- ‘TSHUVA-RETURNING TO OUR TRUE BEING ‘
“Within our yearning for Tshuva is a hidden life-force for overcoming every factor that limits and weakens existence.”
THE TORAH OF EDEN: IN HONOR OF RAV KOOK ZT”L’S 87th YAHRZEIT
“All our endeavours must be directed toward disclosing the light of general harmony.” -Rav Kook
IN HONOR OF THE GREAT HEARER-RABBI DAVID COHEN-HA’RAV HA’NAZIR ZT”L
“The main thing is to come closer to the path of the revelation of prophecy.” -HaRav HaNazir, TZ’L
RAV KOOK ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF HUMANKIND AND THE ENVIRONMENT
“We must recognize our covenant with the stones and animals of the field”
HARAV KOOK ON TISHA B’AV: REPAIRING 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)
WHAT RAV KOOK SAYS WE MUST DO IMMEDIATELY TO FIX THE WORLD: Step 1- OBEY THE LAWS OF NATURE
“We must act in harmony with the laws of life and protect the laws of nature, morality and the Torah. Thus we will repair and renew life’s vitality.”
