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Ein Ayah: There is a powerful feeling that impacts the spirit when one comes to terms with the absence of a worthy person. While the fact that a good person is lost from the land makes one general impression, the emotion that surrounds the pain is connected to many specific impacts related to appreciation of a worthy life. That is because throughout one’s life, he finds value in different elements of a properly lived life, and this is expressed in the pain he feels at the time of a friend’s death.
The more basic, singular view of the emotion is seen by the human emotional eye, which sees only the surface and feels only that which sticks out. However, the "divine eye" sees every hidden matter, counts every step, and appraises every thought. Hashem knows to "count" every element that is included in the pain that possesses the heart of one who appreciates a worthy life that is now gone. This is what Hashem does when someone sheds a tear for the deceased.
A person experiences emotions in a relatively fleeting manner. The impact of the emotional pain must pass. However, the power that caused the temporary outbreak of emotion to the extent that one shed tears for the worthy person is not fleeting, but is a permanent thing which comes to the fore only when jolted by the death. Hashem is in touch with that permanent element of one’s soul and does not treat it as fleeting, even though its visible expression is such, but as something whose character does not change with time.
That is why Hashem does not measure the tears by volume like a normal liquid, in which each drop becomes an indiscernible part of a pool of liquid. Rather, Hashem counts the tears. The smallest shade of value in a pure Jewish life, of the type that make others appreciate it, is considered an independent, protected entity. Even though the human emotion does and must move on, the fact that it was powerful for a moment, at the time one comes to grips with the loss, comes from a permanent appreciation of good life. Therefore, Hashem keeps it permanently in His storage houses. You, Hashem, who know all hidden matters, counted the foundations of the spirit that caused the pain of loss of something valuable, in this case, a precious life that lived on earth among people.
The psalmist asks to put his personal tear in Hashem’s flask; it is there that the tear can be significant, as there its identity is not lost when it joins with other of its type, nor is there a loss to the most delicate emotion that caused the tear. Rather each one is counted, and it is kept in Hashem’s special mode of accounting. Because the counting of the one-time tear is connected to a permanent appreciation in the heart of the beholder of the good person, it is preserved in Hashem’s storage houses, which means for eternity, and it is "in Your accounting."
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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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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.
