Category: Rav Kook
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Interesting Fact 07: Rabbi Akiva against Christianity
In Shul this morning, someone mentioned this statement of Rav Kook. I don’t have time now to translate it (perhaps in the future), but it is from the fourth of the Shemoneh Kevatzim of Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook number 238. In it Rav Kook writes that the “Son of the Israelite woman” mentioned in… Read more
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What have the British ever done for us?
There is a great scene in ‘The Life of Brian’ (don’t watch the whole movie – not tzanuah in one scene) were they are discussing “What have the Romans ever done for us?” Without wishing to minimize the comedy of that scene, or the seriousness of the gemara, I am reminded of this scene every… Read more
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VaEra – Derech Eretz
This week (and hopefully in coming weeks) I’m using Rav Tzadok HaCohen as the basis for the shiur. The parsha begins with G-d telling Moshe that He only appeared to the Avot as E-l Shaddai, but He will appear to Moshe as YHVH. The problem is that G-d appeared many times to the Avot with… Read more