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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
“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...
RAV KOOK ON THE SPIRIT OF CHANUKAH
Presenting some of Rav Kook’s central ideas and teachings about Chanukah.
THE LAMP OF CHANUKAH
Rav Kook wrote this essay in 1935 aware of the “evil winds carrying unbridled hatred toward Israel...”: It is a mitzvah to place the Chanukah lamp on the outside of one’s doorway, but during times of danger, it is sufficient to place it upon one’s table. -Tractate...
The Cruse Of Oil – Rav Kook on Chanukah
“When the kingdom of the Hasmoneans was victorious, they searched and found only one cruse of oil with the seal of the high priest intact. It had enough oil to light the candelabrum for one day, but amiracle occurred and they lit [the candelabrum] with it for eight days.” Tractate Shabbat 21b
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