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Recipient: Rav Pinchas Hakohen Lintop, the rabbi of a Chassidic community in Lithuania. He had learned Kabbala with Rav Kook when Rav Kook was in Boisk, and the two were very deep and like-minded thinkers, in many ways.
Body: Your hopes for rabbinical conferences are always dreams for me, but now there is unfortunately not a hint of beauty to accompany a pleasant image. Our nation’s shepherds are in a deep slumber. This is not due to ill will but due to a weakness in the soul, after days, years, and eras have passed without "food that is truly life-giving and healing." I refer to the live light of the internal, elevated light of the Torah (kabbalistic thought). When the rabbis will get together, they will not admit a deficiency in wisdom and spirit or believe the [exhortations] of the few who are "armed with Hashem’s forearm." The table at the conference will certainly be adorned with an analytical dilemma on a matter of Halacha, a minute detail from the perspective of spiritual depth. It may be major and broad from the perspective of the depth of intellectual gymnastics needed to solve it, but that will resemble one who uses a tremendous amount of gold to make a machine that produces one steel pin. They might discuss a matter of homiletics, incorporating ideas of ethics to apply in life, with an unclear kabbalistic idea or an old philosophy. This will only increase the basis of the unproductive rabbinical atmosphere. It will also create a new pain along with great "labor pains" of Israel, which is agonizing in this pain.
Igrot Hare’aya (200)
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
151 - Call to Plant More Etrog Trees
152 - Dreaming of Deep Ideas with a Likeminded Person
153 - Deeper Literature
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This is our goal in taking very measured steps as we start to produce the periodical "The Nir." We need to begin with a nir (a plowed field), weed out the thorns from the whole area, and ready the Jewish People "to sow with a new light" that will have the impact it had in the distant past, with greater purity. For real cause, we have smelted the steel and scrubbed it clean. The kiln used to purify is the long, oppressive exile. While we have suffered greatly to improve the world, we cannot deny that we too need a lot of purification and that [exile] has been ultimately good for us. Because we sat in darkness, Hashem has been our light (see Micha 7:8).
With the dew of light, coming from the sweet stream of the Desired Land, the place of our life and strength, we will bring everything to life. We will make the most of the smallest resource; everything will be fruitful. The love of the nation, which is simple, straight, and natural, refreshing and healthy, must develop as a practical matter that puts light in the hearts of all who are truly fit to be crowned as great Torah leaders; it will cause all of the towers to be built and fortified. This will occur specifically in the place of national life, which we feel as we live on the Land with confidence in its redemption. It is awakening and will envelope all of the distant flock, which were scattered from mountain to mountain but did not forget "its pen or its shepherds", who accompanied them.
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 Limits of Interest Rate for Loan with Heter Iska – part I
based on ruling 80033 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 Worse on the Outside, Better on the Inside – #332
Date and Place: 26 Elul 5670 (1910), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya Excitement over a Friend’s New Newspaper – #319
Date and Place: 4 Menachem Av 5670 (1910), Rechovot
Igrot Hare’aya Ties to Religiously Controversial Events/Organizations 1. #293
Date and Place: Iyar 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.
