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Recipient: Yekutiel Menkowitz, a wealthy Jew from Vilna, who had great love for the Yishuv in Eretz Yisrael and was in touch with many of its leaders.
Igrot Hare’aya (200)
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
165 - Stamping Out a Challenge to a Moshava Rabbi
166 - Hoping to Create a Kosher Ship to Palestine
167 - Cooperation between Rabbis of the New Yishuv
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Body: I received long ago your dear letter about the idea of making one of the [European] ships kosher. I "knocked on several doors" on the matter looking for supporters and helpers. Unfortunately, "the gates" have not yet opened for me, as each one exaggerates and says it is impossible. I personally have not given up hope and am prepared to act on this matter as best I can.
I have just given letters to a rabbinic emissary to take to the council in Odessa and the Russian [shipping] agency there. We will see what Hashem will have come of it. I share your conviction that this would increase the number of wealthy Jews and Jewish leaders to come to the Holy Land. On the heels of such people, who are blessed in Hashem’s eyes, there will be a blessing to the Holy Land and a great strengthening of the emerging liberation of Israel, with Hashem’s help.
2. No to Attempt to Broaden the Heter Mechira – #198
Recipient: Moshe Leib Lilienblum, a writer and member of the Haskala Movement.
Body: You know that the Yishuv is my soul’s life. I knew, before I publicized the rules of the Heter Mechira, how the matter needs to work, both regarding the needs of the farmers and of the workers. I was well aware that some believe in extreme leniency in these matters, but this is not my inclination. After all, just as we need a Land, so we need a religion. We also need to entrench the idea that the nation must not forget the institution of Shemitta, just as its memory and our affection for it is alive in our souls.
Every Jew must know that Eretz Yisrael is not only superior to other lands regarding his body, but also concerning his eternal soul. This is the only way to elevate the flame of the love of Zion in practice and continue it for generations.
The matter you raise does not greatly impact agricultural workers. There are four Torah-level elements of work (Rav Kook required that these be done by non-Jews) – sowing, harvesting fruit, harvesting grains, and pruning. As it is, almost all sowing is done by non-Jewish workers, and no tragedy will befall the Yishuv if the "Shabbat of the Land" will be recognizable by means of some change in a minority of places. Regarding harvesting and pruning, I have already made provisions for leniency, just that farmers should not apply them themselves but must get a ruling from a rabbinic authority. The same thing is true of plowing. Regarding planting saplings, I only forbade it when this is done for patches that are for beautification and expansion and for crops that are not important economically.
I never thought that the Council wanted to get involved in such questions. Therefore, I request that you suggest to the Council to sign the sales authorization without delay. Realize that I received from Paris a form signed personally by the Baron.
Please know that the farmers are very happy with the arrangements with the Heter, and they know the situation better than those who are concerned for them from a distance. I also do not understand what the question of how lenient to be regarding work has to do with not signing the authorization, which, either way, must be done.
That which you wrote that Rav Shlomo Mohilever o.b.m. did not require a sale to permit Rabbinically forbidden work, I do not agree with this approach at all, and Yiftach in his generation has the authority of Shmuel in his generation (Rosh Hashana 25b).
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
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 Connecting Disciplines in Torah Study
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook 103 – part III
Igrot Hare’aya Raffle of Property in Eretz Yisrael for Tzedaka
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook: – #220
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 Description of New Yeshiva’s Goals to a Supporter – #328
Date and Place: 12 Elul 5670 (1910), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya What Requires Protest? – #279
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook Date and Place: 15 Adar I 5670 (1910), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya Worse on the Outside, Better on the Inside – #332
Date and Place: 26 Elul 5670 (1910), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya Public Response to Zealous Defense of Rav Kook – #308
Date and Place: 15 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.
