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Recipient: Moshe Zeidel, a protégé of Rav Kook. In earlier years, there were several letters to him.
Igrot Hare’aya (200)
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
155 - Celebration of Quarters for Yemenite Community
156 - The Need for Torah Devotees to Write on Jewish Philosophy
157 - The Need for Torah Devotees to Write on Jewish Philosophy
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Body: Affection for you, which does not leave my heart, always reminds me about my obligation to write. However, am I able to fulfill my obligation, as my heart pulls me to do? I must respond in the negative. I am involved in many types of work, and each one creates feelings that contradict those created by the other involvements. I am always forced to jump from one to another, to the point that when I want to "pay a debt," which my heart greatly desires, there is usually not enough time to do so. When I am able to extricate myself from my constrictions and "pay," I have to carry it out in haste, so that I do not find a full sense of satisfaction in the manner I write. Nevertheless, true love covers up all shortcomings.
In truth, I very much desire that there should be friendly conversation between people in our peer group, between the elite few who understand and feel that we have a powerful spiritual task, which is new and extensive. We must engage in the spiritual subjects of the Torah with the same vigor with which we rightfully engage the practical subjects of the Torah. This is my old, favorite idea. Give and take and questions and answers on matters of Jewish philosophy and belief need to be written, with clear logic and with a spirit of intellectualism and boldness, specifically by Torah scholars who are fixtures in the "tents of Torah." This is despite the fact that in this generation, most of those who wrote on such subjects are those who learned Torah and then strayed from its observance. These are people who live a haphazard life, at least in regard to recognition of the light of Torah, and by so doing, have sealed off the path to the freedom of recognizing the hidden light, which lives and exists eternally, in the treasure house of the life of Israel.
Therefore, I would very much desire to set up an ongoing correspondence among all of the remaining wise young people, who know and love Torah, remain faithful to it and follow its commandments, while at the same time are involved in academic pursuits in a proper and diligent manner. With people like that and like us, we can come out with serious intellectual writing, creating a proper genre of spirituality and innovation, in the nearly abandoned field of Jewish Philosophy and belief. We can do it in a successful manner, "like fatty meat on a gold table."
According to the importance of the matter so are the obstacles to setting up such a framework, formidable. Nevertheless, I have not given up hope, and I look to Hashem, Who gives us the light of the world in the treasure house of life, that He may still give me the privilege to fulfill my desire. With your help, my beloved brothers (you and Rav Binyamin Moshe Levine) and a group of your friends from there (they were in the university in Bern, Switzerland at the time) and here; everyone who is diligent to act, who has a spirit of Hashem in him, will rise up and lend you a hand. There should be between us a flow of letters full of the goodness of Hashem, encouraging the increase of analysis of the truths of intellectuality, which is appropriate in our days in order to reinvigorate our nation’s spirit and reveal its light and grandeur to its children.
We should fulfill that which I wrote in a recent poem: "From the points in my thought, they should be gathered in their masses; I will take my letters, and they shall turn into articles; the articles shall become books, and the books shall be circulated in every place." Together we shall sing these songs in practice, and from the corners of the world songs will be heard, and the joy of being close to Hashem shall be our strength.
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
P'ninat Mishpat A Commercial Rental for a Closed Business – part II
based on ruling 80047 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
P'ninat Mishpat Payment for Not Clearing Warehouse On Time – part II
based on ruling 75076 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
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 Involving Baron Rothschild in Religious Efforts – #278
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook Date and Place: 14 Adar 5670 (1910), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya Refuting Criticism by the Ridbaz – #311 – part IV
Date and Place: 19 Sivan 5670 (1910), Yafo
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.
