29 December 2025 · A sentence from the teachings of Rav Kook
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„The flaws they find within their souls, and the counsels they devise…”
„The flaws they find within their souls, and the counsels they devise for themselves to rise up out of the fall and the despair... become great lights to illuminate the world.”From Shemonah Kevatzim, I 300
When we shatter, we have an immense opportunity, the moment of rising. The moment of the courageous inner thought of how to emerge from the brokenness toward a straighter and better light is a one-time moment, immense, with tremendous power within it. A person's greatest power is the path he has traveled. The pits into which we fall in the course of our lives are the very pits from which we will learn in the future, through proper labor, to lift up others who fall. Every fall is a tremendous opportunity for rising up.
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