“All of life’s endeavors must be directed to disclose the light of the higher general harmony.”
PARSHAT VAETCHANAN: RAV KOOK ON ‘UNITING EXISTENCE’
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Nation
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.
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 ON PEKUDEI: SANCTIFYING EVERYTHING
“Therefore it is necessary that our emotional national aspirations be united with the purer intellect. Thus it is proper for the Aron-Ark, the place of the pure intellect, to be placed in the home of the Holy of Holies- the foundation of pure emotional feelings. This is the way to unite the intellectual analytical Torah with the emotional heart based service in Israel.”- Rav Kook
Rav Kook on The Jewish, Christian, Muslim Conflict and Resolution:
Rav Kook explains that the reconciliation and loving that occurs between Jacob and Esau after years of enmity is a foreshadowing of the loving meeting that will occur historically between all the children of Abraham in the latter days of history.
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.