When to Initiate Hastening the Process and When Not
Ayn Aya Shabbat v, 47
When to Initiate Hastening the Process & When to Leave God to Decide? (Ayn Aya Shabbat v, 47))
How do we know when to work with God & initiate speeding up the process of redemption for example, and when to let Him do everything? Rav Kook connects this with the sin of Reuven and suggests an innovative explanation to one of the midrashim.
work at a hospital and, some days, I am unable to wear tefillin during the day, but only pre-dawn. May I then put on tefillin before its regular time? [Our staff knows the querier.]
"Friends of ours keep chalav Yisrael, but they will use
foods made with non-chalav Yisrael powdered milk. But I know from my professional
research that one can purchase powdered mare's (female horses) and camel's milk – they
are specialty products that command a very high premium. So why is there any difference
between using non-chalav Yisrael powdered milk, and non-chalav Yisrael fluid milk?"