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Rav Kook baking matzah, 1924 (PHOTO: FROM THE BOOK HEICHAL HA'AHAVA)

nation; that the secrets of Torah do What attracted a prince of the world
not only shed light on the individual’s of Chassidut to the circle of Rav Kook?
relationship with Hashem but also Perhaps he saw, as Rav Kook did, that
on the life and trajectory of the the time had come for the next stage
nation of Israel. As thousands of Jews in the revelation of Torah; that it was
returned to live in Eretz Yisrael after time, finally, for the secrets of Torah
thousands of years of exile, Rav Kook concerning the destiny of our people
believed it was critically important to to be revealed!
study the Torah’s deepest teachings
concerning the Jewish people’s national
relationship with Hashem. 1. Moshe Nachmani, Haneshama Ola Pitom, 230.

Rav Kook’s hope of expanding Chas- 2. Rabbi Kalman Eliezer, Shemuot Ra’aya,
sidic thought to address the nation’s Introduction.
relationship with Hashem would 3. Moshe Nachmani, Haneshama Ola Pitom, 229.
unfold in the story of the Admor HaCha- 4. Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Neriya, Moadei Ra’aya, Lag
lutz, the Chassidic Zionist pioneer, BaOmer.
Rabbi Yeshayahu Shapira. The brother 5. Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Neriya, Moadei Ra’aya,
of the martyred Rebbe of Piacetzna, Shabbat.
Rabbi Kalonimous Kalman Shapira 6. Found in the Ma’amarei Ra’aya.
hy”d, often known by his sefer, the Aish 7. See Rabbi Betzalel Naor’s Legends of Rabbah
Kodesh, Rabbi Yeshayahu was a scion of Bar Bar Chana, 20.
Rabbi Elimelech of Lizensk, the Maor 8. Hillel Zeitlin, קוק ברה לש הלבקב ידוסיה וקה,
Vashemesh, and the courts of Koznitz, HaTzofeh, September 25, 1938.
and Grodzisk. Settling in Eretz Yisrael in 9. Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Neriya, Moadei Ra’aya,
1920, he left behind the glory of lead- Shabbat.
ing a great Chassidic court in order to 10. Iggrot Ra’aya, Vol. I, 206.
physically help build up the Land. As 11. See Pinkasim M’Kitvei Yad Kodsho, Pinkas 5:9.
the head of the Immigration and Labor
Department of the Mizrachi Center
in Jerusalem, he organized a group
of 120 religious workers to build the
Rosh Pinah-Tabgha road and another Rabbi Reuven Boshnack is the Director of
50 workers, including himself, to clean OU-JLIC at Brooklyn College and a licensed
Solomon’s Pool near Jerusalem. While Mental Health Counselor. He is the author
in Israel, he met Rav Kook and became of several books, including The Sefas Emes
part of his circle. He was ultimately Project, a collection of shiurim on the
given access to Rav Kook’s journals and parasha through the lens of the Sfas Emet,
used them to compile the sefer Eretz Avodas Yehuda: Insights from the Maharal,
Chafetz, which combined Rav Kook’s and Pathways to the Heart, a collection of
teachings on Eretz Yisrael together with shiurim on the parasha from the Rabbis of
his insights from his own life. the Izhbitz dynasty.

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