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Absence of Stone: Rivulets of Stars
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Poems of Yaacov Dovid Shulman. Monday, December 24, 2007. I threw out the baby with the bath water. I was tired of drinking bath water. And who needs babies anyway? We both need to sleep,. To snore away our lives. Of course it gets quite crowded in this bed. I keep having to kick away guitars, old sandwiches. I find that friend’s doorbells are digging into my back. I curl around bassoons and double basses. So that in the morning, in the warm, body-scented sheets. I have an enormous crick in my neck.
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Teachings of Rav Kook: A Holy Fire, Burning and Blazing in My Soul
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Teachings of Rav Kook. Tuesday, April 15, 2008. A Holy Fire, Burning and Blazing in My Soul. Is this great distress that I am not permitted to pronounce God’s Name as it is written an empty thing? Is it not a holy fire, burning and blazing in my soul, which indicates the depth of the hidden longings within it for the light of the true God, the God of Israel, Who makes the precious light of the truth of His manifestation shine only with the holy Name as it is written? But “who is like Your nation. A thirs...
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Teachings of Rav Kook: The Essence of Learning Torah
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Teachings of Rav Kook. Saturday, July 12, 2008. The Essence of Learning Torah. The essence of learning Torah “for its own sake” can only come about via this preparation of understanding accompanied by feeling of how all of the details of the Torah are beloved with a holy love, and how the universal light, which is filled with life and which brings life to the world, penetrates all of [the Torah’s] details. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Rav Kook, site in progress.
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Teachings of Rav Kook: I Must Speak of Myself
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Teachings of Rav Kook. Sunday, April 6, 2008. I Must Speak of Myself. I must speak of myself a great deal. Matters of my essential being must become extremely clear to me. When I understand myself, I will understand everything—the world and life—until my understanding will reach the Source of life. Can you cite the source of this in Rav Kooks writings? February 22, 2011 at 9:15 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Rav Kook, site in progress. Absence of Stone (poetry).
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Jewish Lights: October 2009
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Teachings of Rav Kook, Hasidic Stories and Lessons, Poetry, Occasional Music, &c. Saturday, October 17, 2009. A Person Drawn By Nature to Elevated Matters. By Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook. Kibbutzim Mi’ktav Yad Kodsho II, p. 53. Continued Stories of the Neschizer Rebbe. 20 The Neschizer rebbe told the following story. Once when, as a youth, the Lubliner rebbe went to see the holy R. Elimelech of Lizhensk, a heavy, cold rain fell while he was traveling. Night fell and he got lost. He saw a house in the fores...
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Jewish Lights: The Neschizer Rebbe: The Mysterious Purim Visitor
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Teachings of Rav Kook, Hasidic Stories and Lessons, Poetry, Occasional Music, &c. Saturday, December 11, 2010. The Neschizer Rebbe: The Mysterious Purim Visitor. Story translated from an authentic Hasidic text, first published in 1892). Also on Purim 5627 [1867], the Neschizer Rebbe quoted the book [unclear] that a person should write the word Amalek or Haman and then erase it, in order to perform the positive commandment of wiping out the memory of Amalek. Mei-avdut Hatzaddikim 36, Zichron Tov. Dear Rea...
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Jewish Lights: Poem: The Moon Rose
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Teachings of Rav Kook, Hasidic Stories and Lessons, Poetry, Occasional Music, &c. Saturday, December 11, 2010. Poem: The Moon Rose. The moon rose in the swinging sky. And glittered at the fox. Who turned his pointy nose and sniffed. A cat turned on the rocks. The ocean turned upon the shore,. The boy turned on the gutter,. And musty men in dusty rags. Turned up to rage and mutter. Oh in the apple of your eye,. Oh in the woods medieval. The woodman struck, the cages shook,. The king decried upheaval.
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Jewish Lights: September 2008
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Teachings of Rav Kook, Hasidic Stories and Lessons, Poetry, Occasional Music, &c. Monday, September 29, 2008. I Must Speak of Myself. By Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook. I must speak of myself a great deal. Matters of my essential being must become extremely clear to me. When I understand myself, I will understand everything—the world and life—until my understanding will reach the Source of life. Sunday, September 28, 2008. By Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook. Friday, September 19, 2008. The Water in Which Faith Grows.
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Jewish Lights: The Neschizer Rebbe: The Story of a Torn Ear
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Teachings of Rav Kook, Hasidic Stories and Lessons, Poetry, Occasional Music, &c. Friday, December 10, 2010. The Neschizer Rebbe: The Story of a Torn Ear. The Neschizer rebbe was told that a certain person was learning forbidden literature. The Neschizer rebbe said to that man, “Tell me the truth about what I have heard about you.”. The man answered, “Heaven forbid, I am only learning books on grammar- dikduk. The man also said, “I sometimes study the Kuzari.”. But skip the Gate of Unity.”. One time the ...
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Jewish Lights: Rav Kook On: Depression and Divine Light
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Teachings of Rav Kook, Hasidic Stories and Lessons, Poetry, Occasional Music, &c. Monday, December 6, 2010. Rav Kook On: Depression and Divine Light. The depth of the depression that embitters the soul to the very essence of life has been formed in the nature of [a person’s] supernal spirit so that it may have a receptacle that will be filled with Divine light. 8220;The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger can mix into its joy” (. Kevatzim Mikhtav Yad Kadsho. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
