The Spiritual Revolution of Rav Kook

Can we combine simchah and responsibility? Is it possible to have purpose and direction, and at the same time to let loose and feel free? Yes. This is the type of happiness that comes from kabbalas ol, accepting G-d’s yoke. On the one hand, a person lets go of his self-consciousness, but he does not sink into emptiness; he connects to a force that

Balancing judgment with mercy, finding the sweet spot of harmony in ourselves and others is the way we can tap into the ultimate good, the Hidden Light, and bring that light, bit by bit, into this world of concealment, being a force of revelation and helping to usher in the final redemption.

the third idea: tikkun, healing a fractured world. Each religious act we do has an effect on the ecology of creation. It restores something of lost harmony to the cosmos. Or, to use another term from Lurianic kabbalah, it ‘unifies the divine name’ and helps mend the breach between God’s essence and his indwelling presence (Shekhinah) which is curre