Mishpetei HaRav Kook / The Danger of Camps
„Like a wall of iron it stands before us, between one camp and another.”From Masa HaMachanot
Israel, 1933. In Germany, Hitler rises to power, and the world begins to internalize that something very bad is happening there. Arlosoroff tries to conduct negotiations with Germany in order to bring Jews up before the catastrophe that people are beginning to sense, and he encounters a solid wall against him. He is murdered. The claim is that a Jew murdered him, and the small Jewish public in the Land of Israel is torn and splits apart. The public divides into "the good" and "the bad," and Rav Kook senses that there is a real danger. Rav Kook's cry is to tear apart the Satan that categorizes and divides and, above all, generalizes — and to understand that a hidden power of good exists in every single person and in every single camp. A few months after the writing of the essay, which was composed in 1934, Rav Kook died of illness.
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