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We Are Told That The Words Of The Torah Fall Like Rain, Giving Life To Us Even As Rain Makes The Flowers & Plants Bloom. We Are Urged To Seek Wisdom From Our Elders, & Learn From The Generations Gone By. Hashem Is Described As An Eagle, Which Majestically Guards Its Young, Even As Hashem Watches Over Us Eternally.
The Song Also Takes A Darker Tone, As It Warns Us Of The Consequences & Danger Of Forsaking Hashem. Yet Even When We Stray, G-d Will Prevent The Nations From Carrying Out Their Evil Plans Against Us. He Is Our Rock Forever.
What A Perfect Intro To Yom Kippur. For On This Day, We Admit Our Faults & Our Failings Even As We Pledge To Do Better. By Word & Action, Tefila & Fast, We Tell Hashem That We Want To Return To A More Pristine & Perfect Spiritual Life. We Sing, Because Music Emanates From Our Soul & Rises All The Way To Heaven.
But There Is Another Message We Send As Well.
Rav Soloveichik Once Attended A Symphony. He Watched Closely As One Member Of The Orchestra Sat Doing Nothing Until The Very End, When He Dramatically Stood Up & Banged His Cymbals. The Rav Later Approached Him & Asked Him If He Is A Specialist Who Just Comes To Do This One Small Thing For A Brief Moment.
"oh, No," Said The Man. "i Am Every Bit The Musician As Everyone Else; I Get The Same Pay & Recognition. Because Unless I Sound My Cymbals, The Work Is Unfinished, Incomplete, & It Is Considered A Disappointing Failure."
The Rav Wrote About This Experience & Said: "you May Consider Yourself A "bit Player" In The Universe. You May Think That You Make No Difference At All, That The World Can Go On Without Any Need Or Notice Of You. But You Are Wrong; Hashem Is The Master Conductor, & He Needs Each & Every Person To Do His Or Her Part. If Anyone Or Anything Is Absent, Then The World – Even History Itself – Is Diminished & Deficient, & In Need Of A Tikun."
On Yom Kippur, We Remind Hashem That We Truly Desire To Be Part Of The Heavenly Orchestra; The Instrument We Play Is "instrumental" In The Divine Plan For Humanity. And So We Plead, "let Us Return For Another Performance."
Rabbi Stewart Weiss
Was ordained at the Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, Illinois, and led congregations in Chicago and Dallas prior to making Aliyah in 1992. He directs the Jewish Outreach Center in Ra'anana, helping to facilitate the spiritual absorption of new olim.
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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.
