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With Love and Faith Be-Ahavah U-Be-Emunah With Love and Faith Ha-Rav Shlomo Aviner © Copyright 5776 All rights reserved. Parts of this publication may be translated or transmitted for non-business purposes. The majority of articles were translated by Refael Blumberg and a minority by Mordechai Tzion Be-Ahavah U-Be-Emunah To learn more of Rav Aviner's Torah or subscribe to weekly e-mails: www.ateret.org.il and www.ravaviner.com To order this book: American Friends of Yeshivat Ateret Yerushalayim PO BOX 1076 Jerusalem, Israel 91009 Telephone: 02-628-4101 Fax: 02-626-1528 Or e-mail: toratravavinerail.com Computer typesetting: Moshe Kaplan Table of Contents Introduction ............................................ 8 Am Yisrael “Our Camp” – The Jewish People........................ 9 The Nation of Israel and the Secret of Cholent............. 12 Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook: “I am Building a Nation”..... 17 Rav Kook's Approach Versus Focus on the Individual....... 22 Brotherhood ..........................................26 All for One! ...........................................29 Love the Charedi as Yourself............................ 31 The Secret to Protecting the Nation of Israel............... 33 "He Did Not Make Us Like the Nations of the World"....... 36 Do Not Say: Traitor! ...................................38 The Time has Come for Brotherhood..................... 40 Nerves of Steel ........................................43 Eretz Yisrael Why Eretz Yisrael? .....................................47 If you Will it, it is not a Dream.......................... 49 Don't Cut Up the Land of Israel!......................... 53 There is No Palestinian State Here....................... 57 Open Letter to an Honest, Upright Member of the Human Race ........................................61 The War over Judea and Samaria........................ 65 The Laws of Uprooting Jewish Settlements................ 67 We will be Back in Gush Katif........................... 72 e4E Be-Ahavah U-Be-Emunah Yerushalayim Jerusalem, if I forget you….............................. 77 “A Man or Woman Can Force a Spouse to Move to Jerusalem” ..........................................80 "Be Careful not to Climb the Mountain, or Even to Touch its Edge ............................................83 Tzahal To be a Serious Army in Our Land....................... 88 We’ve Come from Far Off to Fight....................... 90 Shehechiyanu on Being Drafted into Tzahal............... 92 The Weekly “Mi-Sheberach” Prayer for Tzahal Soldiers..... 97 Bar Kochba, from Then until Now...................... 102 How Many Fine Virtues the Army Has!................. 106 Religious Jews in the Israeli Security Apparatus . 112 Did you Raise a Hand Against a Soldier?!............... 114 Don’t Hurt Tzahal .................................... 116 The Fighter’s Spirit ................................... 119 I Have Seen Heroes .................................. 125 The Army's Response Hierarchy........................ 127 State of Israel Ode to Religious Zionism............................. 133 Religious Zionism between Two Worlds................. 139 Strengthening the Religious-Zionist Community........... 141 Why was Yom Ha-Atzmaut established on the Fifth of Iyar? ........................................... 145 Hallel on Yom Ha-Atzmaut............................ 149 A Political Party of the Entire Jewish People............. 152 Table of Contents e5E Torah Learning Unsuccessful Students ................................ 158 Learning Tanach with Emunah........................ 161 Relating to Biblical Prophets as Prophets................ 164 The Scientific Approach to Learning Tanach............. 171 What would Nechama Lebowitz say about the new approach to learning Tanach? ................................ 175 Time to Get Back to “Orot”........................... 180 Has the Time Come to Learn Mysticism?................ 184 Mitzvot The Eternal Halachah….............................. 188 What would Rav Soloveitchik say about “creative Halachah”? ....................................... 191 Halachic Opportunism ................................ 196 Serving G-d with Joy ................................. 199 In the End, the Two Worlds (Charedim and National Religious) Will Be One...................... 201 The Ends Do Not Justify the Means.................... 205 Torah or the Law of the Land......................... 209 The Influence of One who "Only" Learns Torah.......... 212 I’m Charedi Too ..................................... 214 Rav Tzvi Yehuda Kook was Right!...................... 217 How to Daven without Bothering Others................ 223 Tzedakah will Save you From Death.................... 227 Placing Techelet in One’s Tzitzit........................ 231 Food for the Satiated or the Hungry?................... 236 Tax Evasion ......................................... 240 Beggars ............................................ 243 Don't Copy! ......................................... 248 Visiting Kivrei Tzadikim . 252 e6E Be-Ahavah U-Be-Emunah Proper Character Traits First Be a Person .................................... 257 Character Improvement............................... 259 The Culture of Leisure ................................ 263 How to Be Happy ................................... 267 Overcoming Jealousy ................................. 269 True Humility ....................................... 271 The Little Prince as a Moral Tract...................... 274 Don’t Live off Loans ................................. 278 Maran Ha-Rav Kook and Rabbenu Ha-Rav Tzvi Yehudah One Shepherd or Several?............................ 284 Our Great Master Ha-Rav Tzvi Yehudah Kook........... 291 Rabbenu Ha-Rav Tzvi Yehudah Kook.................. 295 The Chief Mistake of Religious Zionism................. 300 Rabbis Who is the Gadol Ha-Dor?............................ 306 Honoring the Chief Rabbi of Israel..................... 310 In Defense of the Chief Rabbi of Tzahal................. 314 A Rabbi Can Make a Mistake?!........................ 319 Revering Torah Scholars.............................. 325 The Torah Scholar’s Ambition......................... 328 Non-Zionist Rabbis ................................... 330 The Satmar Rebbe is Visiting Israel!.................... 332 Should Rabbis Intervene in Politics?.................... 336 Honoring Rabbis at Weddings......................... 341 Table of Contents e7E Marriage Matchmaking Talk ................................... 347 Searching for a Torah Scholar......................... 362 Emunah Disciples of Moshe ................................... 365 We are not “Modern Orthodox”....................... 368 Who determines what occurs in the World?.............. 370 The Torah and the Big Bang Theory................... 374 Were there Dinosaurs? ................................ 376 U.F.O.’s, Aliens and...Technology...................... 379 Near-Death Experiences.............................. 383 Does a Person Complete his Mission in Life and then Die? ..................................... 387 What is our task on Earth?............................ 389 Listen to Your Doctor! ................................ 391 Vaccinations are a Must!.............................. 395 “Supernatural Power – Is There Such a Thing?”.......... 403 Mysticism – Indolence – Fraud......................... 409 Genuine Spiritual Aids ................................ 412 Addiction and Free Choice............................ 414 Redemption When is the Messiah coming?......................... 417 The Redemption from Egypt and Today's Redemption.... 422 We’ve Made Progress ................................ 426 Has the Vine Flowered?.............................. 429 What do you see when you see a tree in Israel?.......... 434 Is This the Redemption?.............................. 436 Starts and Stops in Redemption........................ 440 Biography .......................................... 444 e8E Be-Ahavah U-Be-Emunah Introduction Ha-Rav Shlomo Aviner – Rosh Yeshiva of Ateret Yerushalayim in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem and Rav of Beit El – writes a weekly column for the Parashah sheet "Be-Ahavah U-Be-Emunah" of Machon Meir. The articles range from familial relationships to national and international issues, from the most minute details of halachic observance to broad Torah philosophy, from current issues of the day to life in the World to Come. We proudly present a sampling of the myriads of articles. May all those exposed to Rav Aviner's light be inspired by a love of the Nation of Israel, the Land of Israel, the State of Israel and the Torah of Israel. Mordechai Tzion In the heart of Jerusalem between the Walls Am Yisrael “Our Camp” – The Jewish People Sometimes people talk with me and use the expression “our camp,” so I respond, “Hold it right there! Who is ‘our camp’? Our camp is the Jewish People!” Certainly, within our Nation, different Jews are different from one another. The Jewish People includes all kinds. Yet they all belong to ‘our camp.’ By contrast, the non-Jews are not “our camp”. They, too, were created in G-d’s image, and when we recite the “Aleinu” prayer, we are praying for them as well. But they’re not our camp. Avraham was called the Hebrew, the “Ivri”, because he, so to speak, stood on one side [ever] of the river, and all the rest of mankind stood on the other. They, too, have righteous people, and the righteous of the nations have a place in the World to Come, but even they are not our camp. And within the Jewish People, there are individ- uals who do sins,
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