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Blog Lessons
Access blog posts about Rav Kook’s teachings on a variety of subjects.
RAV KOOK ON CHANUKAH: KINDLING THE INDIVIDUAL AND UNIVERSAL LIGHT
“Each of us is required to kindle our unique light in order to help fully illuminate the world.”
THE LIGHTS OF RAV KOOK: SUKKOT JOY AND UNIVERSALITY
“The firmer our vision of universality- the greater the joy we will experience and the more we merit the grace of divine illumination.”
RAV KOOK ON YOM HA’KIPPURIM:THE DAY OF AT-ONE-MENT
“On the holy day of Yom HaKippurim- we can eat and drink from our holy inner voices of understanding.”
RAV KOOK ON ROSH HASHANAH: RENEWING THE POWER OF RENEWAL
“As the year is renewed the power of renewal elevates the human will and adds holiness to all.”
RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT KI TAVO: CREATING A WORLD ‘FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY’
“Within the yearning for tshuva is a hidden life force for overcoming every factor that limits and weakens existence.”
ELUL: RAV KOOK ON ‘TSHUVA/RETURN:THE LIMITLESS POWER OF THE WILL FOR GOOD
“Within our yearning for good is a hidden life-force for overcoming every factor that limits and weakens existence.”
ELUL-TORAT HARAV KOOK ON ‘TSHUVA/RETURN’
“Within our yearning for Tshuva is a hidden life-force for overcoming every factor that limits and weakens existence.”
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
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