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With a feeling of relief, you are sitting at this party and are enjoying the first "benefits" of the ability to breathe at ease. The period of work and sweat has passed; tests are completed; grades have been received. You can now lounge around with a mood of laziness and catch some extra sleep at a later than usual hour.
I want to share my personal thoughts with you. I would like to shake up the undoing of the tension [from the long year of study]. [On the obvious level,] the grades were received; but were they really received? This question is especially relevant in the topic that we have been involved in over the last two years – Machshevet Yisrael (Jewish Philosophy). You should remember that it was hard for me to give grades, and you would argue: "But we know the material!" You must realize that the main thing is not to know the material; the main question is to what extent Machshevet Yisrael turned into the way you think – Yehuda, or Moshe, or Shmuel. The real test will take place when you are in the swimming pool, or perhaps the ball fields, or the army base, or in the marketplaces of life.
This subject of Machshevet Yisrael has fallen into a difficult position – it is required to instill the spirit into the Torah, to reveal the light of the Torah, and to instill its soul into the soul of every student. After all, the Torah is part of the external framework of mitzva actions. Torah is indeed a guide to the life of activity. Our task today is the same one that stood before atomic researchers – to blast open the physical kernel and to return it to the energy from which it was formed. So, Jewish philosophy must demonstrate the light that is in the belief of the unity of Hashem, to inculcate in people the true essence of service of Hashem, and to explain that this service is not servitude but rather it is the full expression of our freedom.
It is also possible that you will be presented with the opposite task. Namely, it may be necessary to take the energy, and to return it to a practical framework, to apply it to different enterprises. This includes finding solutions for the most fundamental questions of life that arise and to operate in the public sphere in Israeli society according to this discovered spirit. It will not be sufficient to know the truth yourselves. We are calling upon you to do much more than that. You are called upon to blow a spirit of life into a downtrodden collective. If you do that, life will give you the grade you have earned.
Moreshet Shaul (48)
Various Rabbis
37 - Moreshet Shaul: Character Refinement – part V
38 - Moreshet Shaul: Jewish Philosophy in Daily Life
39 - MORESHET SHAUL: TWO ELEMENTS TO WORK ON – PART I
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Various Rabbis
Various Rabbis including those of of Yeshivat Bet El, such as Rabbi Chaim Katz, Rabbi Binyamin Bamberger and Rabbi Yitzchak Greenblat and others.
Moreshet Shaul Moreshet Shaul: A Crown and its Scepter – part II
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 294-5
Moreshet Shaul Moreshet Shaul: Addresses to Students at Kfar Haroeh (1942, 1944)
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 238
Moreshet Shaul Moreshet Shaul: Fortunate is the King Who Is Thus Praised in His House
Based on Aroch Siach, Yamim Noraim p. 87
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 8- "Answering Questions on the Kuzari's Proof from Mass Revelation
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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.
