Rav Kook's Sayings / The Root of Hatred and Love

Let us begin with the literal explanation of the sentence: *the inclination of baseless hatred and the inclination of baseless love come from one root.* And in a long article that ends with the idea that if we were destroyed because of hatred we will be built from love, Rav Kook explains how much power and how much might there is in us and in our choices — in our loves and our hatreds. And this power, in its inwardness, comes from the same root. The source of our love and the source of our hatred relate to our treasure of life, to the one toward whom we have a relation of life through the very partnership with him. It is important that we remember, amid the intense emotions now circulating in our streets, that everything stems from the depth of the bond that exists between us. Brothers and sisters.

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