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Gemara: A man can go out with tefillin on close to when Shabbat starts.
Ein Ayah: Tefillin are set aside for weekdays, to the exclusion of Shabbat and Yom Tov, which are themselves "signs." This is part of a general concept. Our Creator realizes that a person absolutely needs acts of external sanctification in order to come to internal, essential sanctity. One can discern the presence of the external acts from the resulting internal sanctity.
One thing we do to show that the true goal is the internal sanctity is to refrain from wearing tefillin on Shabbat. Wearing tefillin is the classic example of an act of external sanctification that causes internal sanctification, as the pasuk says: "In order that the Torah of Hashem will be in your mouth" (Shemot 13:9). On Shabbat and Yom Tov, in contrast, the focus is on internal self-elevation without the external support.
These concepts also find expression in regard to the spiritual state of the community. The more the nation or its individuals fall spiritually, the more they need to increase external acts of sanctification. The spiritual fall whose sins caused our exile also caused that much Torah was forgotten and that halachic doubts arose in realms where previously there had been certainty. Those doubts brought a need for stringency, which naturally increased the actions of mitzva that were necessary to abide by them. This phenomenon was arranged by the Hand of Hashem to compensate for the nation’s spiritual drop by increasing acts that stimulate spirituality. While such actions due to doubt are intrinsically on a lower level, they still play a positive role in preserving our connection with Hashem.
One should value actions of stringency due to doubt as long as we have not returned to our beloved home and do not have a king, a prophet, and a Sanhedrin who will rule on Torah matters in a manner that leaves no doubts. In the meantime, our carefulness in the face of doubt is fundamental to our religious lifestyle, and it would be very wrong and dangerous to abandon the phenomenon that Divine Providence arranged for us.
This idea is similar to the phenomenon of tefillin, which are appropriate for weekdays, whereas on Shabbat and Yom Tov there is no need for them because the essential sanctity is present. However, tefillin are appropriate until the exact time that Shabbat begins, including immediately before it. This is correct because the light of sanctity still has not shone and the tefillin are still needed to cause Hashem’s Torah to be in our mouths until Shabbat’s internal sanctity replaces the external catalyst.
The same is true regarding the expansion of halacha with stringencies that stem from exile and a lack of expertise. We expand many halachot and we, for example, keep two days of Yom Tov outside Israel and take double challa in Suria. Chazal attributed this phenomenon to the pasuk, "They placed me as a watchman of the vineyards" (Shir Hashirim 1:6), which they learned as follows. Because "I did not watch my own vineyard" (ibid.), i.e., the real, one day of Yom Tov when I was in Eretz Yisrael, I needed two days outside my place. Even if the expansion came for regrettable reasons, it should remain as long as it is needed.
Only when we will return to normalcy, when the light of Hashem will restore us to our true level and there will be a return of prophecy and divine inspiration, then the added stringencies will become like tefillin on Shabbat. However, that is only when that time has fully arrived, when the period will be like Shabbat, not when that time is only close to coming.
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 8- "Answering Questions on the Kuzari's Proof from Mass Revelation
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Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 9 - "Seeing is Believing" (parag. 21-30)
These paragraphs elaborate on the theme that seeing and knowing is better than any attempt to prove logically, and begins explaining the difference between Israel and gentiles.
Ein Aya Various Universal Stages of the Geula Process
Rav Kook examines the various stages of redemption, explaining how (in addition to the obvious oft-mentioned stages of ingathering the exiles, reviving the Hebrew language, army, state etc.) the messianic dream of world prosperity, the State of Israel and world unity can and are realistically and logically gradually coming true.
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 8- "Answering Questions on the Kuzari's Proof from Mass Revelation
How do we know that the "claim" of mass revelation to 2,000,000 witnesses at Mt. Sinai is really true? This important class answers all of the questions skeptics ask about this claim of the Kuzari.
Ein Aya Armies Still Necessary for Balance & the War Against Wars
Rav Kook explains why the world was originally divided into the various seemingly contradicting ideologies and cultures, in order to develop each one respectively. Swords or armies symbolize how each respective ideology defends themselves, as well as deters their opposing ideologies and cultures. On the other hand, the messianic era will be one of peace, and Rav Kook explains the transition to that stage, which mankind is already undergoing.
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The question was asked, how can one make Aliyah with the LGBT parades?
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 7 - Five Accumulative Proofs of G-d
As a preparation for the Kuzari's classic proof of G-d from the mass-revelation at Sinai, we start here with 5 other directions to strengthen our belief which also contribute to what the Kuzari will present as well.
Ein Aya Muscle & Meaning: The Dual Nature of Gevurah (Physical Strength)
Is physical strength and fitness a necessity or an ideal? Although it if often totally overlooked among topics of Judaism, Rav Kook writes that it clearly is also a necessity to deter the many enemies of Israel, but even in Y'mot HaMashiach, in the Messianic era, to a certain extent, it's ideal continues even after our enemies will have been finished off.
