Some people have reached the level at which individual mitzvot are no longer relevant. How do such people deal with this world we live in?

See The Light - Rav Kook's Journals #410

Paganism, ostensibly free from the stultifying unity of monotheism, allows for the widest array of unique elements to emerge. But in Rav Kook's understanding, true Unity includes this massive variety and actually enhances them by bringing them together

See The Light - Rav Kook's Journals #404

It is ideal to refine our lives, in order, from the world of action through emotion, to thought and perspective. But it certainly doesn't always work out that way, and we must learn to grab every opportunity to "do the work", on whichever level it occurs

See The Light - Rav Kook's Journals #386

Mitzvot are not symbolic - they have impact beyond what our imagination does with them, beyond what they "mean" to us

See The Light - Rav Kook's Journals #384

It could be that our job in life is to grow our ruach like a tree grows fruit. And when the ruach is ripe, we let it go

See The Light - Rav Kook's Journals #367

Jewish life is not a set of actions or texts - it is a climate, an environment. And this specific climate is the one in which we thrive. Is it healthy to venture into other climates?

See The Light - Rav Kook's Journals #287

Perhaps counterintuitively, one finds one's self by first immersing in the learning, emotions and approaches that constitute the basis of our tradition, and from there, one's uniqueness emerges

See The Light - Rav Kook's Journals #292

Judaism is as infinite as God is. Just as God contains everything, Judaism contains everything, even though there are limits in tiers of available actions.

See the Light - Rav Kook's Journals #273

When you are confronted with any aspect of yourself that is not yet perfect, the way to fix it is to draw from a higher place that ultimately feeds the place where the flaw emerges

See The Light -  - Rav Kook's Journals #249

Big Soul people must not get caught up in Smallness. They do far more for the universe by saying Big. But there are times when they must bring their Bigness to bear on the small details.

See The Light - Rav Kook's Journals #248 (corrected link)

It is absolutely necessary that Big Soul people focus on big things and not get too caught up in small details. And it is also necessary for Big Soul people bring their Bigness to bear on the details, too

See The Light - Rav Kook's Journals #248

Persistent ascent brings moments of real pain and breakage and frustration, but the rewards of this persistent ascent are worth the pain that is experienced in stages between them.

See The Light - Rav Kook's Journals #244

The bigger the person, the more they contain. The biggest people contain everything that is, everything that is happening, within their own selves, and they work on the world's conflicts within themselves

See The Light - Rav Kook's Journals #210

It would be incredibly useful to approach Jewish life like we approach chemistry - breaking it down into its constituent elements, understanding them, and combining them in new and interesting ways.

See The Light - Rav Kook's Journals #207

So much positive, constructive engagement with Torah, Judaism, religion, etc. is inhibited by images of and opinions about those things retained from childhood. Oy.

See The Light - Rav Kook's Journals #179

To the extent that people can, through writing and literature, articulate the subtle aspects of the human experience, they must do so. This contributes immensely to a sense of common experience among all of humanity.

See The Light - Rav Kook's Journals #176

Far, far more than simple acts of ritual and obedience, mitzvot carry with them the Divine Song, and this literally builds the soul, each mitzvah in its own way

See The Light - Rav Kook's Journals #170

To the extent that people are willing to feel the pain of their generation WITH LOVE, they can help bring change. Which is, of course, hard, when you hate what's going on.

See The Light - Rav Kook's Journals #149

It should no longer be surprising that, inevitably, there is a fall, a period of weakness and not-ness, before a new level is reached. The work - and the art - is to continue to know everything we can know about how that goes, and how we, as individuals, tend to react to those moments

See The Light - Rav Kook's Journals #137

When we become capable of better and higher thinking and being, we need to update element of our lives that are rooted in old ways of thinking and being

See The Light - Rav Kook's Journals #136

Would it be something you’d be interested in, in having a Q&amp;A type episode if for some of your listeners would like to engage with you and perhaps gain a larger alternodox minyan?

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