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Beit Midrash
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- Chemdat Yamim
- Igrot Hare’aya
Date and Place : Yafo, 5668 (probably still 1907)
Recipient : Rabbis in the Diaspora
Body : [The first part discussed how the early settlers of Eretz Yisrael ranged from simple religious people to the holiest scholars, and that now many of the farmers are irreligious.]
Igrot Hare’aya (200)
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
115 - Appeal to Buy from Religious Winery
116 - Appeal to Buy from Religious Winery
117 - Celebration of Quarters for Yemenite Community
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There is an internal reason for the minimal connection that the majority of Hashem’s nation have to the holy love of the new community of settlers, which caused this very sad event. It is something we have to work very hard to fix and reconnect the multitudes of Jews with the depth of the heart and soul so that people will follow their leaders and take part in the rebuilding of the Land by her sons, the sons of the King and Savior of Israel, who are in the process of being drawn to her.
The reason is that the true, internal connection of Jews [of the Diaspora] to the Holy Land stands fully on sanctity. This includes the sanctity of Hashem’s Name, the sanctity of the love of our holy Torah, and the sanctity of the deep belief in the Torah and its mitzvot, which should be fulfilled on the Land that Hashem gave to our forefathers from time immemorial. Those settlers who toil in the land and are the builders of the Land in recent years do not know the loftiness of this great foundation of the connection and have taken a turn toward that which is profane. They desire to attach a label of secular to the New Yishuv, instead of the lofty sanctity that actually dwells on it from the sanctity of the Holy Land. This idea of secularism, promulgated by leaders of the New Yishuv, impacted especially the approach to education. It came to replace the sanctity and dependable approach of educating with the light of the Torah and pure fear of Hashem, which is proper for the children of the "holy flock" wherever they are, and especially in the Holy Land, which is Hashem’s estate. The education is led by real educators, filled with Torah, fear of Hashem, and complete belief. Instead, [groups of new settlers] founded schools that are styled around the mundane, which creates blemishes in the upper sanctity and prevents the spirit of Hashem from shedding light on the air of the Holy Land in a palpable manner. It brings on a desensitizing of the new paths, so that "the plant will not make flour," and spirit is missing.
The Nation of Hashem has sensed all of these phenomena from a distance, and the great people within the nation saw these things from afar. This is the reason behind the horrible weakness in support for the New Yishuv. With this fall in spirit, there has also been a lower level of affinity for the produce of the Land, especially the wine of the Holy Land, even those that are guarded and supervised properly with a reliable kashrut certification. This weakness of enthusiasm affected sales and has held back the New Yishuv, which should actually be beloved by the entire Nation of Hashem.
Next time we end off with Rav Kook’s practical recommendation.
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
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 A Commercial Rental for a Closed Business – part II
based on ruling 80047 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
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 Trying to Arrange Purchase of Land in Eretz Yisrael
#222 Date and Place: 2 Elul 5669 (1909), Rechovot
Igrot Hare’aya Excitement over a Friend’s New Newspaper – #319
Date and Place: 4 Menachem Av 5670 (1910), Rechovot
Igrot Hare’aya Maintaining a Friendship of the Spirit – #266 – part II
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
