Rav Kook for People who are not Adherents of Rav Kook's Thought: Orot part 60

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

Okay. Uh belief and and love. They always connect with each other when they both shine in the sham and their perfection. If you have the light of one of them for example completely. So then the second one aba is aroused and vice versa. Now this is a I I I should say that this seems to be aided approach because amuna in the approach the approach traditionally is an intellectual activity whereas amuna inidic approach is a is an emotional activity and amuna from mnagnic approach at least classical approach has to do with evidence of God's existence and so on and so forth and accepting the intellectual evidence that God exists whereas from a kidic perspective is another form of it means when if you you believe in that which you cling and you cling to that which you believe so that according to perspective amuna yes there are going to be two sides of the same coin uh but and they're going to be closely related to each other I I don't for and a matter of fact from aidi perspective this is a very appropriate for tonight for you because I saw this in Lubavure text many years many years ago somebody gave me uh when they wanted to explain explained to me the idea of a reba from a I think it was a reb Wilhelm was the name of the author and uh in amuna based is always based on on based on um not based on um on intellectual proof because anything intellectual is uh is uh remote. It's not something which you uh um cling to. And the martial is if a person's love for one's spouse or child is based on intelle intellect, it's not the same thing. It's that's that's a

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1. 0:02Okay. Uh belief and and love. They always connect with each other when they both shine…
2. 2:40>> right after the litfish approach. The world is real and uh there's no Islam is…
3. 6:00modes of relationship which exist in this world right anything which individual or the collective does…
4. 8:43mean our is even the zor when we learn it's watered down and and superficial is…
5. 12:05so um what is this is from pamphlet? There's a special to cleave to it. What…
6. 14:43This person is very overwhelmed by the thoughts. I didn't want to damage enthusiasm. But truth…
7. 17:57the civilized people who are wicked who are missing obviously capable of I'm not sure what…
8. 20:43The true on comes from that connection to above any capacity to express any concept which…
9. 23:57>> uh I don't think you will >> no right so the um so the uh…
10. 26:40that's not what he meant. He meant there's a form of nationalism which is Tor nationalism…

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