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Rabbi Abraham Kook Episodes

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March 19, 2023

What's really behind the current chaos in Israel and why I love it

The bedlam unfolding on the streets of Tel Aviv today is the inevitable byproduct of the epistemological flaws inherent in Zionism. Flaws that expose Zionism's failed attempt to create a counterfeit Jewish identity. Also important on this topic: https://www.committinghighreason.com/why-israel-has-so-many-elections/
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Jan. 6, 2023

Ben Gvir and Smotrich: Religious Fanatics or Fascist Nationalists?

The newly elected rulers of Israel have been widely criticized for their hijacking of a sovereign government for their own personal ideology. What people don't know is what exactly that ideology is. It's not Judaism. It's nationalism, which has overlayed traditional Judaism in the theology of the settlers from the time their founder, Rabbi Abraham Kook, taught that nineteenth-century nationalism is actually Torah from Sinai.
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May 12, 2021

What Religion Does "National Religious" Zionism Come From?

The students of Rabbi Abraham and Zvi Yehuda Kook incorporated into their Judaism large doses of organic nationalism, pagan land worship, militarism, and end-of-days Messianism, combining them into a new, autonomous philosophy that they call Dati Leumi ("National Religious") Judaism. Photo by SoWhAt249 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64048771