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Body: [We are skipping the first paragraph, which is a somewhat esoteric analysis of a gemara, illustrating the danger of lacking self-respect.]
I come to you this time, my respected, beloved people, with a moral feeling of the need to strengthen self-respect, which is worthwhile for us all to strongly internalize. I refer to self-respect for ourselves and self-respect for our nation and our Holy Land. These are concepts that are accessible and palatable to the heart of every person who lives among us.
Igrot Hare’aya (200)
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
181 - Trying to Arrange Purchase of Land in Eretz Yisrael
182 - The Disgrace of Violating Shabbat in the Holy Land
183 - Semi-solicited Advice to Calm Down Petach Tikva
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We, who live in this place, which has a great impact on our life course from a special, internal perspective, should feel the greatness of the moment when we hear the sound of the trumpet announcing the coming of the sanctity of the day of Shabbat. This signifies the correct time of sanctity and rest for the Nation of Israel. This system is so pleasant and encouraging, and it is very appropriate for our heart’s great internal desire when it has its intended effect. It should remind our hearts of days of old, in the time when our forefathers lived on this holy soil (the gemara, Shabbat 35b, discusses the practice of ending the week of commerce with shofar or trumpet blasts). Nowadays, too, the blowing should also cause people to make their last food preparations and close their stores.
Shabbat’s sanctity envelopes the whole Land of Israel. Its arrival brings a state of rest. The Jewish spirit is sanctified, as it removes the elements of the mundane weekday and its darkness and we rise toward Shabbat’s sanctity and light.
It is so painful to the soul to see our brothers hardening their hearts to prevent themselves from recognizing the honor and power of this lofty moment [of the nation ceasing work], and instead continuing in their stores and businesses at this holy, pleasant time. This disturbs the pleasant and holy harmoniousness that the whole nation’s spirit and soul strives for, in the public realm, here in the good and holy Land. Only a deafness to feeling and a smallness of the spirit can explain [ignoring Shabbat’s nobleness]. How one belittles our value in our own eyes and the eyes of others!
Therefore, dear brothers, please return and let us sanctify Shabbat, the day of sanctity and rest for Israel. Let us sanctify it as it enters, at the proper time. Give greatness and strength to our great nation, so that its remnant will receive [what the nation was promised]. Brothers, have mercy on the honor of our nation and our Land. We are in a position of weakness; our hands are in shackles, and we cannot act with great power. But at least, respect the great desire that is hidden in the weak speech and tired hands.
The great Name of the savior and strength of Israel, the Greatness of Yaakov and its lot, calls upon us powerfully with grandeur: "Sanctify Shabbat! Refrain from keeping the coffee shop open and from all desecration of the holy Shabbat. Fill yourselves with greatness, the grandeur of eternity, and the sanctity of the light of Israel."
"You shall guard Shabbat because it is holy for you" (Shemot 31:14). "Whoever guards Shabbat from desecration, and holds back his hand from doing any evil. I will bring them to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer, for My house is a place of prayer for all the nations, as Hashem the Lord, who gathers the dispersed of Israel, says. I will gather them again" (Yeshaya 56:6-8). May it occur speedily in our days!
Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
P'ninat Mishpat A Commercial Rental for a Closed Business – part II
based on ruling 80047 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
P'ninat Mishpat Profits from Formerly Joint Swimming Pool – part
(based on ruling 81110 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 A Public Letter on Observance of Shemitta – #287 – part I
Date and Place: 4 Nisan 5670 (1910), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya Maintaining a Friendship of the Spirit – #266 – part II
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook, Date and Place: 11 Shevat 5670, Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya Keeping Shemitta Partially – #272
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook; Date and Place: 2 Adar I 5670 (1910), Yafo
Igrot Hare’aya Involving Baron Rothschild in Religious Efforts – #278
Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook Date and Place: 14 Adar 5670 (1910), Yafo
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