In the introduction to Orot HaTeshuva, Rabbi Kook expresses the pressing need he feels from within his soul to teach about repentance in a language uniquely suited to the spiritual needs of this generation. This talk probes the extraordinary power of change.
The goal of a Torah life is to faithfully portray the divine truth in very practical concrete terms. Its not about believing in G-d but living in G-d and living G-d into our everyday lives.
The love for people must be alive in heart and soul, a love for all people and a love for all nations, expressing itself in a desire for their spiritual and material advancement; hatred may direct itself only toward the evil and the corruption in the world. ~ Rabbi Abraham …
Live at Isralight on Tisha B’Av night, Rabbi Aaron explores the significance of the destruction of the two Temples and it’s relevance to us today.
The flame of the holy fire of the love of God is always burning in the human heart. It is this that warms the human spirit and illumines life; the delights it yields are endless, there is no measured by which to assess it. And how cruel is man toward …
One cannot but love God, and this sweet and imperative love most engender as a practical consequence an active love for everything in which we perceive the light of God. One cannot but love the Torah and the Commandments, which are so intimately linked to the goodness of God. ~ …
The love for all creation comes first, then comes the love for all of mankind, and then follows the love for the Jewish people, in which all other loves are included, since it is the destiny of the Jews to serve toward the perfection of all things. All these loves …
The heart must be filled with love for all. ~ Rabbi A. I Kook
All the worlds are embodied in the soul and the deeper we delve toward inner knowledge of the contents of the soul, the more we understand the All, and the source of the world and the original light of all life becomes ever clearer. The world’s manifestation ever grows within …
“In all your ways acknowledge Him [and He will straighten your paths]” (Proverbs 3:6), this is explained in [Midrash] Shocher Tov (Psalm 144), that a person should acknowledge that in his every move he is not the actor at all, but only the Holy One Blessed be He. ~Rabbi Zadok …
