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The most fundamental requirement is to somehow upload the link to the specific lesson on one's computer or phone and then to click on that link to join the learning session. Without having the link and clicking it one will never be able to hear what is being taught or benefit from the zoom session being conducted. This link is the essential ingredient to all the learning or entertainment projects that can exist on this electronic platform.
The phrase "just send me the link" has become part and parcel of our everyday conversation and mindset. Just a few short years ago, using such a phrase would only have incurred stares of wonder. Our society was not thinking in terms of links. However, among all the other immense changes that the Covid epidemic has created in our society, the realization that one must somehow find a specific link and click on it, is part of a new language and a different set of words and phrases. As such, let’s consider if we do not give proper weight to understanding the import of the links in our lives.
Judaism has always been based on links, the link to family and tradition, links to generations gone before us, and the links to eternal values and unchanging assessments of life and people. These constitute the bulk of thought and activity in every day Jewish existence. We see ourselves as being linked to the eternal chain first created by our father Abraham and continuing for millennia till our time.
Judaism values age, experience and, most importantly, links to the past, even more than it encourages the vitality and experiences of the young. We say in our prayers that we are grateful for the previous generations that have survived, so that we to are able to be connected and linked to the past, as far back as our father Abraham and our mother Sarah.
This linkage is vital to Jewish survival, both personally and nationally. One cannot participate in the eternal zoom lesson of the study of Torah and the performance of its commandments without somehow obtaining the link and clicking on it by ourselves.
When one is young, one rarely appreciates this type of generational connection. However, as one's years increase, it becomes apparent that one of the tasks of maturity is to provide that personal link that binds generations together and gives purpose and value to each individual life. For many Jews in our time, the tragedy of complete assimilation and the lack of any Jewish content in life is directly traceable to the fact that they never found the link and are cut off from their tradition by their secularism and hedonism.
The purpose of Jewish education, in my opinion, should be to impress upon the student throughout all the years of one's school experience, the necessity of finding their personal links and clicking on them. If one has the link, then there is no limit to what can be learned, understood, and creatively woven into the fabric of one's own personal life. However, if that necessary personal link is somehow unavailable, then school and knowledge become only a jumble of facts, opinions, boredom, and worse.
We are currently very careful that schools and classrooms should not infect their students with viruses and diseases of the body. We should be just as careful and vigilant that schools should not infect their students with moral viruses of unproven agendas, current political theories and correctness, and wildly impractical and utopian ideas and hopes. We cannot leave our younger generation without any link to the realities and experiences of past generations and to ancestors, that would leave them vulnerable to harmful teachings and opinions.
The truth is that every one of us, especially those of us who are blessed with being grandparents, should establish themselves as that link that is necessary to benefit from the spiritual and psychological zoom class that is currently available to all who are interested in finding and utilizing what constitutes their Jewish hertiage.
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.
The Land of Israel LGBT'S IN ISRAEL
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.
