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Recipient : Rabbis in the Diaspora. We have only the first section of the letter, and it is unclear what Rav Kook was advocating. Perhaps it was to increase religious aliya; perhaps it was funding for projects in Eretz Yisrael to strengthen the religious community. In any case, the beauty of the letter’s sentiment and style of writing are too engaging to skip over.
Body : It is my holy obligation to point out and try to inspire all the pure hearts of those who fear and care about Hashem’s Name, whose hearts are touched by Him and think of Hashem and Yerushalayim and are connected with heart and soul to the holy belief in and love of the Land that is desired by Bnei Yisrael and Hashem. We, survivors of the sword, have been drawn individually to come to the place where we have complete lives. Hashem’s Hand enabled us to extricate ourselves from impure soil; He brought us to the sanctity of the Land about whose needs Hashem always inquires, the Holy Land, may it be built soon.
We see and know that the time has come to have mercy on Jerusalem (see Tehillim 102:14). We are witnesses who have seen with our own eyes and can testify for the whole Nation of Hashem that the blossoming of the time of liberation has arrived to build Zion and its ruins. This is occurring, as the flock of members of His nation have gathered in Eretz Yisrael from the four corners of the earth to show love for the holy stones and see grace in the Coveted Land’s soil.
At first, the divine plan was carried out by righteous individuals, the previous generation’s holiest and loftiest people, who lit the holy flame of the love of the Holy Land in the hearts of Hashem’s nation. Their efforts were responsible for the gathering of individuals, survivors of our nation’s travails, turning parts of the abandoned Land into a Garden of Eden.
A large, distinguished influx of representative groups of the entirety of the nation has steadily increased Jewish settlement in the Holy Land. In our time, Hashem is clearly turning towards us with an interest in bringing salvation and mercy. Many difficulties and tragedies, with waves of turbulent seas and blow after blow that the House of Israel absorbed from nations that rose up to swallow, destroy, and consume the House of Jacob in any way possible. All of these matters together inspire all in whose heart "Hashem’s soul" lives, to forcefully call out and fill his hands with activity for holy action for Hashem, and act to strengthen Bnei Yisrael’s emerging hold on the Holy Land, using all possible energies to bring salvation to Mt. Zion and the beginning of the flowering of the horn of salvation and the blossoming of liberation.
Igrot Hare’aya (200)
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
113 - Seeking the Return of Religious Aliya
114 - Seeking the Return of Religious Aliya
115 - Appeal to Buy from Religious Winery
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However, in recent times, one by one, the affection for the building of the Holy Land recedes in the truly great and holy rabbis, whether greatness is measured in Torah scholarship, fear of Heaven, sanctity, and understanding of kabblistic matters. To the contrary, the holy building of the Land, which is a clear source of eternal life, for the holy nation and the whole world, is increasingly in the hands of those with a lack of wisdom and weak actions. In the process, the great grandeur of the Desired Land is being trampled due to our sins, and its aura and splendor is significantly diminished.
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
P'ninat Mishpat Profits from Formerly Joint Swimming Pool – part
(based on ruling 81110 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
P'ninat Mishpat A Commercial Rental for a Closed Business – part II
based on ruling 80047 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
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 III
Igrot Hare’aya Concern for Communal Kashrut Standards – #288, 290
Date and Place: 4 Nisan 5670 (1910), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya Maintaining a Friendship of the Spirit – #266 – part III
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook; Date and Place: 11 Shevat 5670, 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
