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)/
“The highest sensibility in the soul of the people of Israel is the quest for universal justice and morality.”
“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.”
“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)
“Let us fear God in ways that bear love and inner delight and elevate and vitalize all the potentialities of our soul.” -Rav Kook
“All of life’s endeavors must be directed to disclose the light of the higher general harmony.”
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….
