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Recipient : Rabbi Shmuel Alexandrov. Alexandrov was a yeshiva-trained scholar, who was an autodidact in languages, philosophy, and science. He was a very independent thinker who at times angered the Maskilim and at times angered traditional rabbis. He was a member of the Mizrachi movement and tried, over the years, to recruit Rav Kook to take a leadership role within that movement. This is one of many correspondences between the two on matters of Jewish philosophy.
Body : You find signs in Judaism for the political theory of liberal moral anarchy. Fine; after all, all ideas can be found in a source of truth. Truth cannot be partial but must include everything. However, truth’s special quality is that it turns everything into true, illuminating light.
It is not only the anarchism that is connected to liberalism that has a source in Judaism, in the light of Israel. Individual, material anarchism also has a place, but it too must be purified when it comes to the realm of purity.
Igrot Hare’aya (200)
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
97 - When Should Mitzvot Cease to Apply?
98 - The Torah as a Source of Political Theories
99 - Is Israel So Different from the Nations?
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When the "pipes widen" even further, the feelings become more flowing, palpable, and noticeable. When the "national organ" is full and complete, it too "weaves a family-like fabric." This develops by broadening the pipes so that the individual unity expands to the level of nation. From the national, it can expand another step to all of humanity, and from there a step to all living things. When one is interested in all that comprises earth, and he has an internal desire to complete existence as broadly as possible, this just requires a further step of expansion, albeit a distant one. To reach such an eternal level, one need not rush the matter. However, this phenomenon can elevate the individual to be closely connected to the entire universe.
Therefore, we do not need more than anarchy, when the self-love is so great, powerful, and developed. The paths that lead to this level are paths of life that flow from the source of unity of the One G-d who is the life of all the worlds, [and this finds expression] in Judaism. When such lofty sparks of spirituality fall down, they descend and sink in the depths of the "mud of life." What we need to remember is that Judaism contains everything in a broad manner, but it has very specific and unique ways of guiding people through life. These are ways that exist for the purposes of our children and us. When the light of these ways breaks forward, we will no longer need to question the matter, as the night will be full of light like the day.
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
P'ninat Mishpat P'ninat Mishpat: Multiple Agreements and Parties – part IV
based on final ruling of 80082 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
Igrot Hare’aya Semi-solicited Advice to Calm Down Petach Tikva
#227 Date and Place: 8 Tishrei 5669, Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya Possibilities of Creating Religious Moshavot – #284 – part II
Date and Place: 1 Adar II, 5670 (1910), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya The State of Religion in Eretz Yisrael – #277 – part II
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook Date and Place: 9 Adar I 5670 (1910), Yafo
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
