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Why does G-d test us with such difficult challenges? During the course of our lives, we all encounter many different situations, some of which are very difficult and create great hardships. We strive to understand what could be their reasons, but generally without success.
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Why Must I be Religious to be a Moral Person? - Part I
Rav Kook supports secular morality, in that the conscience and logic stem from the same Creator that wrote the Torah. Nevertheless, he stresses the clear advantages of Mussar HaKodesh, or morality based on religion, for several important reasons. -
Why Must I be Religious to be a Moral Person? - Part II
Additional reasons why secular morality isn't enough. -
Rav Kook’s Understanding of Secular Zionism - Part I
In “Ma’amar HaDor”, this most classic and eye-opening work, Rav Kook explains why the rebellion of the chalutzim (Zionist pioneers) and the secular world against religion, was not only foreseen by the prophets and Mishna, but inevitably, this rebellion is part of God’s program for national, universal and religious redemption, and even beneficial! -
Rav Kook’s Understanding of Secular Zionism - Part II
Rav Kook adds important additional points regarding the eventual benefit of the rebellion against religion, mainly that it forces us to rediscover the depths and the beauty of the “broad Torah”. Since leaving the ghetto, the Torah must compete with other appealing and dynamic ideologies. Yeshivot can no longer just teach Talmud, but must rediscover Tanach, ethics, philosophy, hassidut, kabbala, and Zionism.
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