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

Parashat Vayeshev

„Heaven forbid that they should regard the exile and the dispersion as their natural place of rest... Indeed it holds no water, yet it holds serpents and scorpions... which will only vanish when those cast into the pit ascend from it.”From Ein Ayah, Shabbat II:14

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