Rav berel wein: rav A Y Hacohen Kook # 2

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

in the Zohar. That's where his worldliness came from. That's where his universality came from. It didn't come from reading Kant and Hegel and and Locke. He didn't ever read Socrates or Aristotle. He never had a secular education. It's interesting that many of his opponents, his bitter opponents, the German Jews for instance, that represented to a certain extent the right wing of of the in Europe, the right wing of of the in Europe, the Germans were more right wing than the Poles and the Russians and the Lithuanians. They were much more worldly people. They all had a worldly education. They all were college graduates. They all were professionals. They knew Schiller and Goethe. They could read it in Heine. They could read it in the original German. Rav Kook was uh not only innocent of all of that, he was beyond it. But his worldliness stemmed from his understanding of Torah and of the understanding of Torah and of the mission of Torah and the Jewish people. And in fact, I think that that was probably one of his most infuriating characteristics if I may say so. Because instance when Rav Herzog became the chief rabbi of Palestine succeeding Rav Kook, everybody said he's a doctor, he's a PhD. So you can't expect anything more, right? And that's why he got along much better. He was much less of a controversial person. And he was able to he was able to really to to have a relatively speaking very smooth sailing. Because you know, you couldn't give it to him. He was a doctor, right? He was He was a PhD. So what can you do? He was a god. But Rav Kook was cool up there. And therefore that alone it was a different type of Torah personality. That alone caused controversy. His grandeur, we'll I will talk about it in a moment.

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1. 0:00in the Zohar. That's where his worldliness came from. That's where his universality came from. It…
2. 6:07great Moshe was. But the idea of a great person is that he doesn't realize his…
3. 12:15world, he saw it in that context. In this, he differed greatly from the other religious…
4. 18:22But in but the Eastern European Jews, Weizmann and the others, couldn't reconcile themselves to Uganda.…
5. 24:31I feel and to communicate with you and you have a right to ask of me…
6. 30:38and with Reb Yaakov Moshe Charlap, who was one of the leading rabbonim in Jerusalem. These…
7. 36:50Europe ended up by this man. Again, it's hard for us to put ourselves in that…
8. 43:02Declaration was declared, Rav Kook declared it a holiday for the Jews in England. But not…
9. 49:11uh Rav Kook's personality was that he always dreamt in great dreams and enormous scope of…
10. 55:21into uh into the new settlement. And he and Rav Kook got along on a personal…

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