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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
135 - Call to Plant More Etrog Trees
136 - Dreaming of Deep Ideas with a Likeminded Person
137 - 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
Igrot Hare’aya Departure of an Uncle to Eretz Yisrael
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook: Vol. I, #1 , p. 1-2 – part II
P'ninat Mishpat Who Breached the Contract? – part IV
Based on ruling 81087 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
Igrot Hare’aya Excerpts of Letter on Shemitta – #289 – part I
Date and Place: 6 Nisan 5670 (1910), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya Refuting Criticism by the Ridbaz – #311 – part II
Date and Place: 19 Sivan 5670 (1910), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya Informing a Friend he Is Not Insulted – #320
Date and Place: 5 Menachem Av 5670 (1910), Rechovot (probably)
Igrot Hare’aya Language of Instruction for Rav Kook’s Yeshiva – #325
Date and Place: 4 Elul 5670 (1910), 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
