Learning Geula

In a world where almost anything is possible, the general calling of our generation knows better.

How would you best define the type of souls we are experiencing to spend this world with?

Based on Rav Kook's words, we learned of the proper preparation one must embark on, in order to understand, internalize and live in harmony with the times we are living in.

Coming back to Eretz Yisrael was the entry into a deeper layer of Torah observance, which is Torah experience. Our privilege this time around is to access and live all the dreams which 2000 years of Galut naturally minimized and shut off.

torah, eretz yisrael, galut, Zionism, shlomo katz, rav kook, kumi ori, shirat david

Prophecy, Ruach Hakodesh, Kingship, Temple.. these are words that in the most ideal way, should be playing the greatest role in our awareness and consciousness of daily life in the holy land. In this class, we checked in with the reason we came back home in the first place.

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The young Jew who was met with the privilege, opportunity and responsibility to build Eretz Yisrael was met with a seeming contradiction. The torah he know of at the time, didn't blend with the light of the experience in his/her own life. Rav Kook saw this, and calls this out.

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After thousands of years in exile, the land itself has a demand form each and every one of us.

torah, efrat, shirat david, ruvain sasson, rav kook, exile, Israel, holy land, shlomo katz

How do we learn? What do we learn?
Our hearts are in the most fragile place.
That's where we started, and BH that's where today's learning took us to.

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If we lost everything we had, both physically and spiritually, once we were exiled from our land, what has truly kept us going all these years?

The state we were in during the 1st Beit Hamikdash seemed to be so glorious and perfect. If that's the case, what went wrong? How could have the first Beit Hamikdash been destroyed?

beit ham, holy temple, shechina, sasson, shlomo katz, shirat david, Efrat

The Ga'on of Vilna explains to us the process of death which took place over many years of the exile. When and how did the tables turn?

What was it like to wake up to a world, filled with G-d's presence, within an unconcealed reality? The Kuzari and Rav Kook filled our minds and heart with a clear description of such a world.

shechina, beis hamikdash, torah, shlomo katz, shirat david, geula, redem

As Rav Ruvain Sasson so eloquently writes, the vision of the goal provides light and clarity. In order to be able to march toward redemption, there is an inherent need to know what we were, what we will be, and to admit to where we are right now.

redemption, geula, mashiach, Israel, Jerusalem, shlomo katz, shirat david, efrat

What did 2000 years of exile do to our sense of imagination?

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Redemption restores us to the greatest and healthiest version of us. We seem to be on the way, but what still seems to be getting in the way? Based on the teachings of Rav Ruvain Sasson, we begin to explore these questions.

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