30 June 2025 · A sentence from the teachings of Rav Kook

Educating the Youth

„Only with the cords of love and the doing of kindness can we draw the hearts of our youth toward us, only with gentleness.”From Igrot I, 368

The summer vacation is already here; young men and women have already set out on a long break, and this week children from the elementary schools and kindergartens join them. Today, many already know what Rav Kook cried out about almost alone more than 100 years ago. Education is done with love! Education is not done through coercion. And true education is the kind that manages to connect the souls of children and youth out of understanding and will.

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