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Recipient: Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer, Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva of Slutzk. Rav Isser Zalman overlapped with Rav Kook in the Yeshivas Volozhin and was also a great lover of Eretz Yisrael. Years later, they would reunite in Jerusalem, with Rav Kook as the Chief Rabbi and Rav Isser Zalman as the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Etz Chaim, where many of Rav Kook’s most prominent supporters taught and studied. Rav Meltzer was the author of Even Haezel on the Rambam, and, of significance here, was the editor of the Torah Journal, Yagdil Torah.
Body: [Last time we saw Rav Kook begin to explain why there was a need for a deeper philosophical/spiritual approach than was presented in the Yagdil Torah journal in order to attract the young and searching. The last point was a partial admission that not all young scholars can develop in the new approach. However, Rav Kook claimed that many can.]
Igrot Hare’aya (200)
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
155 - Deeper Literature
156 - Deeper Literature
157 - Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook: – #189 – part I
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By means of the efforts of the choice, elite scholars, we will merit to present alongside the literature of Halacha and standard aggadic literature [as appears in Yagdil Torah], other works of literature that are more literary, and are holy and light-emitting, full with all of the splendor and aura of life to the fullest sense. These works shall be outstanding in their beauty and adornment, and even more so in their truth and strength compared to the charm that is found in the new [secular] literature, whose many edges are full of poison and destruction.
[If we succeed in this,] we will attract bands of people, including those who are presently in the camp of the enemy, because a live word, written in the style that fits this generation’s desire for the most internal spirituality, has still not been heard from the great Torah leaders, whose ideas are grounded in the Torah.
I hope that you, oh respected Torah scholar, will use the platform of your dear journal to generate interest in the question that we need to solve. When you elevate to prominence lofty ideas that inspire the soul that are based on Torah sources, it will [also] make prominent the return of parts of the nation to living in the Desired Land. This can be done by the strength of Torah scholars who know how to "be bold in supporting Hashem," by beginning to give public addresses on matters of public affairs on the highest and most expansive level. This can be done on a high intellectual level with a spirit of life, pleasantness, and robustness. This will uncover and display the splendor of the Torah and those who study it seriously, as they impact the whole nation.
I am bound to hope and look for redemption, from the holy mountains, which is the place where the dew of light and life are embedded in the land, and will spread to Israel and Hashem’s Torah, which is in their hearts.
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
P'ninat Mishpat Payments after a Gradual End of Employment
(Based on ruling 82024 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
P'ninat Mishpat Who Breached the Contract? – part IV
Based on ruling 81087 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
Igrot Hare’aya Alternatives to Gymnasium and Grafted Etrogim – #286
Date and Place: 18 Adar II, 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 Shemitta Work at Israel National Fund Land – #
Date and Place: 3 Sivan 5670 (1910), Yafo
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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.
