Rav Kook’s “Hesped” For Herzl – Part Three

1. The potential danger of trying to get people to make room for viewpoints or missions that are opposite to their natural predispositions.
2. The vision of Zionism can be seen as the ‘heal’ of Moshiach ben Yosef, but as long as it doesn’t see itself as merely a vessel for the spiritual aspect of the Jewish people, it is merely a “cake that hasn’t been turned over”.
3. How Yonason ben Uziel’s explanation of the possuk about the future hesped of Moshiach ben Yosef helped Rav Yosef embrace even the bitter chevlei Moshiach (-pains of Moshiach).
4. A lesson from anti-biotics and pro-biotics.

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