Rav Kook

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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. Good evening. >> Can I ask you a question about that video that you sent me? >> Do you want to record or not recorded? >> Uh, doesn't need to be recorded. I just uh is question which is would be of general interest and I'll record it. >> Uh, yeah, a couple of questions. Yeah. >> Okay. Go ahead. >> Well, the first question is who who was the person who was speaking? I I don't know who that was. >> I don't know him either. His name is Rabbi Hudamit. He was actually started out as most people of this sort started out being uh from religious Zionist background. He learned in America as Zarav. He went afterwards became um what's called in Israel karedi and um he uh starting yeshiva to convince people from religious scientist backgrounds to become uh to leave those backgrounds and to become uh part and parcel of the again so-cal kared camp. >> I see. Um uh well there's a few things that uh they're very interesting. The first uh point he made was that Rav Cook's ideas or ideas for his time and they may not apply at this time or or the way they're interpreted now may not apply at this time which I thought was a fair point because those times were certainly different than where we are now. >> Right. >> So I thought >> he have a lot of as you know know in the video he had a lot of personal uh respect for Ruffk Cook which was

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1. 0:02Okay. Good evening. >> Can I ask you a question about that video that you sent…
2. 2:41>> Uh, it's a question. I mean, you know, I'd like to hear what you have…
3. 5:15noticed and he didn't say this directly but it was sort of underlying what he was…
4. 7:53in it and while it's great to live in Mayarum you know not everybody fits in…
5. 10:29main crisis in the relationship between um religious Zionists and the Karedim. It was it was…
6. 13:35means which are not necessarily always the uh the most kosher and co kosher and yosher…
7. 16:20so it sounds from that even though he has all this uh positive attitude towards Zionism…
8. 19:08said well what about all this wickedness you're right it's got to go go go away…
9. 21:55right there preparation to for the benefit of individuals totality to humanity in general to uplift…
10. 24:40complexities devolve in creation to resto restore to the higher source from which the most lofty…

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