11 August 2025 · A sentence from the teachings of Rav Kook

„Heresy abandoned justice, entrenching itself in an imagined attribute…”

„Heresy abandoned justice, entrenching itself in an imagined attribute of mercy and kindness that takes away the foundation of the world and destroys it.”From Shemonah Kevatzim V, 98

In a world that severs supernal morality from human morality, justice becomes very dichotomous and flat. An image or an emotion can pervert justice entirely. Freedom as a value can come at the expense of life. In such a system of justice, and in a monochromatic view, the world is destroyed, and the wicked receive within it, in the name of love and freedom, a foundation for their wickedness and for the spread of their evil in the world.

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