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Recipient: An open letter to our young, beloved brethren, students of Torah, living in the Holy Land
Summary of previous parts: In these difficult times, it is critical for young Torah scholars to use their talents for writing with energy. The Torah that we have been given is a powerful tool that we just need to learn how to share.
Igrot Hare’aya (200)
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
25 - Encouraging Torah Writers
26 - Encouraging Torah Writers
27 - An Interested Father
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This way, when many students will join together, from the group will emerge for us authors, innovators, and thinkers of helpful thoughts for the Jewish people, its Torah, and its Land. As time goes on, then, the entire nation, who are very thirsty for the word of Hashem, will know that Torah and light emanates from Zion (see Yeshayahu 2:3). Before we get to the point of author of books, we will have writers of good, proper articles. When these people have contact with each other, they will sharpen each other’s abilities and encourage each other.
In these teachings of the matters of the heart, which include all of the disciplines of Jewish philosophy, which is now a captive in the hands of difficult masters (irreligious academics), we have an obligation to break the iron bonds and remove the discipline from its prison. We must not, Heaven forbid, lose our bearings and distance ourselves from life. We must work with life and for life, in order to sanctify life, elevate it, and make it more appealing. We must not think depressing thoughts, which make the heart coarse and the spirit dark. These only come from fleeting learning and superficial understanding, whereas serious study, with aspirations of acquiring ever-increasing knowledge, especially in the great field of Torah thought, should always encourage the spirit and bring joy to the heart.
"Such a person is called a beloved friend, one who loves Hashem, one who loves people, one who brings joy to Hashem and to people" (Avot 6:1).
Hopefully these few words, which have emanated from my churning and burning heart, will enter the heart [of those who read my words] and bear fruit. We will suffice with a small start; we will speak, invigorate, write – every day a song (Sanhedrin 99b). "Water will wear away a stone" (Iyov 14:19). Give us hearts and the hidden light, and we will say to Zion: "Arise, give your light, for your light has come, and the glory of Hashem will shine upon you" (Yeshayahu 60:1). "Those who know Your Name will rely upon You, for You have not abandoned those who seek You" (Tehillim 9:11). "Hashem desires, because of His righteousness, to increase Torah and make it great" (Yeshayahu 42:21). "For Torah will emerge from Zion and the word of Hashem from Jerusalem" (Yeshayahu 2:3). "For Hashem will not abandon His nation, because of His great Name, for Hashem has set about to make you a nation for Him" (Shmuel I, 12:22).
Sign Off: I am your servant, hopeful about the honor of Zion and its inhabitants, who prays for the peace of those who study the ways of Hashem, and the sons and builders of Zion,
Avraham Yitzchak Hakohen Kook, a servant to the holy nation, in the holy land ham Yitzchak Hakohen Kook, a servant to the holy nation, in the holy land.
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
Igrot Hare’aya Connecting Disciplines in Torah Study
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook 103 – part III
P'ninat Mishpat Repercussions of a Sale that Turned Out Not Happening – part III
(based on ruling 83045 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
P'ninat Mishpat Limits of Interest Rate for Loan with Heter Iska – part II
based on ruling 80033 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
Igrot Hare’aya Trying to Arrange Purchase of Land in Eretz Yisrael – part II
#229 Date and Place: 13 Tishrei 5670 (1909), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya Public Response to Zealous Defense of Rav Kook – #308
Date and Place: 15 Sivan 5670 (1910), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya Shemitta Work at Israel National Fund Land – #
Date and Place: 3 Sivan 5670 (1910), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya A Public Letter on Observance of Shemitta – #287 – part I
Date and Place: 4 Nisan 5670 (1910), Yafo
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Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 5- "Proofs of G-d"
This may be the most important class of the entire book, where we finally get to the Jewish proof of the existence of G-d and truth of the Torah. We should follow His own direction where He tells us how to get to Him: through the Nation of Israel: Jewish history, Jewish prophets (and today, prophecies fulfilled), and national reward & punishment towards Am Yisrael.
Ein Aya One Humanity, One Creator, One Jerusalem
Rav Kook innovatively and beautifully explains this aggadeta where our sages say that after Jerusalem was destroyed her cinnamon fragrance is only found locked in a particular kingdom's treasury.
Shlach Lecha "Why So Many Don't Make Aliya?" - Parshat Shlach
This short article deals with the weird phenomena that every single time Am Yisrael is meant to enter the Land of Israel, throughout the Tanach, 2nd Temple and until today, they "chicken out" and look for excuses. What's the problem with this mitzvah that proves so challenging. The article, based on sources, suggests that the difficulties of Eretz Yisrael is precisely her secret and beauty!
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 4
The class deals with Islam and how the Muslim tries convincing the King of the Khazars, and why he was also rejected.
Beha'alotcha JEWISH STATE= GUIDE TO G-DLINESS & SELFLESSNESS
A Jewish State not only is a good idea, but educates us towards selflessness, altruism and G-dliness in our daily lives.
Ein Aya In Zion Even the Smoke of the Bark is Sweet
Just as Jewish nationalism is different from others, so too our capitol of Jerusalem is totally different than other national capitols. Rav Kook beautifully explains the passage in the Talmud that the trees of Yerushalayim were cinnamon trees.
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 3
The second speaker invited to convince the Khazar King is the Christian, who presents their beliefs. Even before the questions of the King, "between the lines", the author R. Yehuda HaLevi already begins disproving them.
Ein Aya "Intimacy: Love, Life & Giving or Egocentric Taking & Expiration"
Today, many confuse between intimacy in marriage, based on love, giving and life which are diametrically opposed to empty "sex", pornography and prostitution which destroyed the Beit HaMikdash. The practical importance of clarifying this topic in today's western society is obvious, especially for young adults.