5 October 2020 · A sentence from the teachings of Rav Kook

„*** These souls of destruction feel that they are imprisoned all the…”

„*** These souls of destruction feel that they are imprisoned all the time; they are constantly trying to break through the laws, taking nothing for granted. They hate law and order and try to attain their goal at any price, even at the price of destruction. But beneath the harsh and evil exterior of those souls there is an immense will to expand and to learn. It is as though these souls are saying, 'Give us more, give us big.' It is quite possible that these souls do not understand and do not know this will, yet it is what gives them the power to destroy and to shatter and to demolish—the power that demands of them to grow beyond their place, to be more. In days of redemption these souls multiply, because the goal of redemption is to elevate the world, and the way to raise the world to higher places is precisely through...”

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