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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
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 Connecting Disciplines in Torah Study
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook #103 – part II
P'ninat Mishpat Repercussions of a Sale That Turned Out Not Happening – part II
(based on ruling 83045 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Igrot Hare’aya Description of New Yeshiva’s Goals to a Supporter – #328
Date and Place: 12 Elul 5670 (1910), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya Refuting Criticism by the Ridbaz – #311 – part III
Date and Place: 19 Sivan 5670 (1910), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya Excerpts of Letter on Shemitta – #289 – part II
Date and Place: 6 Nisan 5670 (1910), Yafo
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(based on ruling 85031 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
(based on ruling 85031 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
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(based on ruling 83037.1 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
(based on ruling 83037.1 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
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Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 263 (address at the laying of the cornerstone of the Yeshiva Chakla’it in Kfar Haroeh)
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 263 (address at the laying of the cornerstone of the Yeshiva Chakla’it in Kfar Haroeh)
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Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 263 (address at the cornerstone laying for the Yeshiva Chakla’it in Kfar Haroeh – 1938)
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 263 (address at the cornerstone laying for the Yeshiva Chakla’it in Kfar Haroeh – 1938)
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Parshat Re'eh
Judaism is against extremism, so how can we understand the seemingly extreme statements found in our sages in favor of living in the Land of Israel and against living in Chutz laAretz? The article deals with the seeming contradiction between the strength of Free-Will and the strength of being influenced by our surroundings.
Ekev DANCE FOR ISRAEL- FOR YOUR BENEFIT
Parshat Eikev
Description: The 7 Haftarot we read after Tisha B'Av ("Shiva D'Nichemta") surely get us excited that they're coming TRUE, and awaken us to yearn, dance & join the return to Zion! The short article also deals with the problems and solutions facing the American Jewish community as discussed at a recent panel, as well as the question why Jews come from America to Israel to help when we face problems, but Israelis don't come to aid Jews in America when they face anti-Semitism.
