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Amram son of Sultana
Hazal teach (Makkot 10a) that if a student is sent into this exile, his teacher must go with him to the city of refuge and continue with his Torah lessons. What happens if, after the High Priest’s death, the killer decides to remain in exile and not leave the city of refuge? Must the teacher stay with his student and continue to teach him Torah? Clearly, the teacher is obligated to remain in exile only as long as the student is unable to leave. If the student is permitted to leave but chooses to remain in a self-imposed exile, the teacher is under no obligation to stay.
There is another type of exile that is all too familiar to us. We have been living in exile for nearly 2000 years. We have been confined to impure and unfamiliar foreign lands. Hazal teach that when we were sent into exile, Hashem went into exile along with us, so that His Shekhinah has been among us in all the strange lands of our exile.
Through Hashem’s great kindness, we have been allowed to leave the bitter exile and return to Eretz Yisrael. For the first time in thousands of years, we have been able to return to our own land. Just like the teacher who may return home, leaving his student in his self-imposed exile, so too Hashem has returned home, His Shekhinah now resting in Eretz Yisrael. Isn’t it time to leave the self-imposed exile and return to the land of the Shekhinah? Certainly, the Shekhinah is waiting for us all to return.
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Israel and the Nations A Few Minutes & Many Innovative Ideas on Antisemitism & What to do About It
As we approach the High Holidays, this short lecture (18 minutes) deals with the unfortunate situation of how Israel and the Jewish People stand against antisemitism, analyzing its cause according to Rav Kook, and how to deal with the issue pragmatically & via our prayers.
Ha'azinu PURSUIT is PERFECTION
p. Ha'azinu, Shabbat Shuva
Rav Kook deals with the question of the seemingly hopeless nature of Tshuva. For G-d Himself knows that He created us with free will, which inevitably means we will sometimes make mistakes and choose wrong. This can easily be frustrating, freezing us into inaction and ye'ush (loss of hope). If one sins even once, does he chalila have no choice but suicide?! Moreover, our Godly conscience demands justice, righteousness and perfection, but we all know this is impossible, so what's the solution? Rav Kook's innovative thinking, strongly based on chazal (our sages), offers an inciteful and important aspect to this topic, especially this time of year!
Sukkot Bug-Free Sukkah: Essential Halachic and Practical Schach Guide
How to inspect, clean, and store bamboo mats and palm branches to protect your mitzvah and holiday meals.
