9 Lessons
Hanukkah Can Maccabees and Hellinists Get Along?
For Chanuka: Rav Kook on: Adopting the Positive Without the Negative of Greek/Western Culture Chanuka is a good opportunity to study Rav Kook's detailed advise regarding how exactly to adopt the good from the Western and modern world without the problematic and negative aspects. The class gleans many sources on this central topic of Rav Kook's various books and summarizes the Who, What, Where and How of this basic issue for religious-Zionist and Modern-Orthodox Jews.
Ein Aya Carefulness that Economic Prosperity Doesn't Harm our Human Advantage
Ein Aya Shabat Chapter B Paragraph 10
Why is there no mitzva to feast on Chanuka?
Ein Aya Why Most Holidays are Seven Days But Chanuka is Eight
Ein Aya Shabat Chapter B Paragraph 9
The miraculous Jewish history of past and present harmonizes with the prophecy of an even greater future.
Ein Aya Education is Ongoing- Yerushalayim is Complete
Ein Aya Shabat Chapter B Paragraph 8
Rav Kook explains the similarity and difference between the similar words for education and Chanuka
Ein Aya Only Jewish Nationalism Brings Peace Not War
Ein Aya Shabat Chapter B Paragraph 7 (p3)
Only zionism who's nationalism is based upon the Jewish Nation's universal role of bringing peace to all nations reveals the eternal G-dliness in nationalism.
Ein Aya Nationalism Usually (!) Contradicts Morality
Ein Aya Shabat Chapter B Paragraph 7 (p2)
The maturing world will prefer universalism, rather than bigoted nationalism, and we will have to explain our supporting intermarriage for all but the Jews.
Ein Aya Chanuka and the Jewish Family
Ein Aya Shabat Chapter B Paragraph 7 (p1)
Jewish Family Purity and Nationalism, and why the World To Come Isn't mentioned so much in the Tanach.
Ein Aya What Seems to Us as Second-Best is G-d's First-rate Plan
Ein Aya Shabat Chapter B Paragraph 5
The difference between the candles of Chanukah and those of Shabbat is like the difficult occurrences which we don't request yet are necessary, compared with the first-rate spirituality.