14 Lessons
General Guidance How to Improve Motivation to Learn & Observe? Post-Modernism!
Ein Aya Shabbat 3, 1
Very often even the most motivated & religious feel a lack of enthusiasm to learn Torah or wake up for shul. Similarly, Post-Modernism poses a great challenge for religion. A culture which is based on democracy & freedom, is skeptical about truth, is over-run with "Fake-News", and stresses myself and my "self-awareness" seems like an inevitable threat to Judaism. Rav Kook was a century ahead of his time, and directs us practically how Post-Modernism is meant to be used to our advantage, and help us rise to a new level of spirituality where we do mitzvot out of identification rather than peer pressure. This is the solution to strengthen our motivation whenever it weakens! Also, if looking for "My" Torah, when can one disagree with his rabbi? A Super-Important lesson & Game-Changer in education!
Ein Aya Senses Aid Our Logic and Logic Aids Our Senses
Ein Aya, Shabbat 2, 282
Ein Aya, Shabbat 2, 282
Chaim in the Garden The Tree of Life and The Tree of Knowing
Chaim in the Garden(3)
Chaim in the Garden(3)
Chaim in the Garden The Sun and the Moon
Chaim in the Garden(2)
The discrepancy between G-d's plan and how it is realized, teaches us how to understand our own failures, to realize our aspiration.
Chaim in the Garden The Grass and the Trees
Chaim in the Garden(1)
Rashi quotes 2 rabbinic comments that indicate two paths of torah Interpretation, one legitimate and one not so.
Ways of Study An Introduction to Jewish Faith Studies
In prior generations, Yeshiva study placed greatest emphasis upon the study of Talmud. We, though, the students of Rabbi A.I. Kook, follow in the ways of our master who called for greater weight to be placed upon faith-oriented studies in our age.
Ways of Study Concerning the "Revadim" Approach
What is known as the "Revadim" approach to Talmud study developed and was nurtured via methods of reasoning which originate in the academic world. The university, though, is a place for the development of empirical, human wisdom, not Torah wisdom.
Preperation for Shavuot “...First Bless Over The Torah”
Torah calls for preparation. The Patriarchs preceded the giving of the Torah, and, as the foundation of the Jewish people, fulfilled the entire Torah even before it was given. This measure was taken as a kind of preparation for receiving the Torah.
Various Shiurim Principles in Learning Gemmarah
Learning Methods and Basic Teaching Techniques; Preparation for the Lesson; Anything Added Only Detracts; Self Learning and Actively Involving the Students;
The Giving of the Torah Receiving Torah Like Children
Mount Sinai's greatness lies in the fact that it is smaller than the rest of the mountains. This is how the Jewish people came to receive Torah, like a child that wants to absorb the words despite the fact that he does not understand them.
