Bezalel Naor: Rav Kook's Mystical Vision of Zionism [Zionism: Bonus Episode!]

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yussie Zakutinsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

be completely honest I have not really spent a lot of time on Rift books writing but I feel incredibly connected to the thought of rev cook it is something that whenever I listen or I hear where the little bits and pieces that I've read that resonates in my soul in a very very personal way and I think people who know me particularly people who see the way I interact online and I share this once I think can appreciate why rif cook resonates and kind of animate so much of my thought I think it's something that both people who it's something that both people who enjoy what I do and people who absolutely hate what I do can appreciate that connection and I think it's because rev cook more than anything else was really conciliatory he tried to bridge opposites he tried to find truth in opposing ideas and find goodness and Holiness wherever he found it now I obviously don't embody even a droplet of the greatness of Riv Cook's personality and writings even making a disclaimer on and writings even making a disclaimer on a podcast that hey don't confuse me four of cook is absolutely absurd but I feel like it always needs to be said he in many ways is my inspiration in the way that I look at the world and there is one particular letter that really had a big impact on me it is the 79th letter in his collected writings and I'm just going to read for you I'm going to be very brief in this introduction but I want to read for you what he writes in this letter because it's about how he looks at the world and how he looks at all of the fighting and dissonance that we find in the world he writes his files

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1. 2:02be completely honest I have not really spent a lot of time on Rift books writing…
2. 7:42sometimes distracts from where their actual legs are standing sometimes when you focus so much on…
3. 13:52why do you think that would be a compliment and what do you think we should…
4. 19:33biography by Yale which is a little bit more digestible that from their Jewish lives series…
5. 25:50how does he know the word allegory it's like I'm listening to a professor from Hebrew…
6. 32:00explore the alephase to write this work now someone who was a helmet of rough cook…
7. 37:45new Derek halimwood for the Arts Israel that it's a new approach to Torah learning yeah…
8. 43:55say before these stamina well the usami signs off earlier yes the rift mentions that at…
9. 49:31very remarkable life but I'm going to use our connection our familial you know I called…
10. 55:37rabbi's ladders I had to take a deep breath I had to blow the dust they…

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