4 April 2018 · A sentence from the teachings of Rav Kook

„V, part II) *** A slave and a free person is a matter of the soul. Ma…”

„V, part II) *** A slave and a free person is a matter of the soul. Many Hasidic stories tell of destitute poor who rejoice in their lot alongside immensely wealthy but wretched men. In truth, not only Hasidic stories are full of this, but reality as well. A free person is one who decides to be so, one who decides to place himself in his own hands and not in the hands of others, one who does not chase after fashions of any kind - in the secular world and in the religious world... One may add and say that a person who wishes to leave his slavery must make a decision that he is making a change. Not merely to yearn for change, but truly to create it. This is the way. For the individual person as well as for a nation. *** Have a pleasant evening For the recovery of David ben Malka. The book”

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