Guest post by Chaim Apsan That we live in special times, close to the Messianic age is already no surprise. Our sages already stated ...

  Rav Kook [at left] by Chanan Morrison   “When... any of your brothers is poor, do not harden your heart or shut your hand again...

Art: Jerusalem Landscape by Michoel Muchnik "And [the spies] began to speak badly about the land that they had explored." [...

Torah learning for the Refuah Shleimah of Michoel ben Esther Rivka Torah from Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook , adapted by Cha...

Photo: Even Liu by Rabbi Chanan Morrison The account in the Torah describing Creation and the beginnings of mankind is not partic...

It was the first of Elul, 5695 [1935], when Rabbi David Cohen [known as ‘the Rav HaNazir’] arrived at the guest house where Rav Kook was ...

Art Laurence Amelie Source: Rav Kook Torah As the Israelites neared the end of their forty-year trek in the wilderness, they lost t...

Written by Chanan Morrison - Rav Kook Torah In contrast to the unique level and clarity of Moses' prophecy, ordinary prophecy is ...

Diagram above shows how the Sefer Yetzirah relates the relationships of the Seven Double Letters to the Seven Days of Creation, the seven...

Art: "Forgotten Sunglasses" by Vladimir Kush Written by Yosef Peretz, Mirrer Yeshiva Kollel, Jerusalem The Talmud (beginn...

by Rabbi Chanan Morrison Why did the Sages enjoin us to become inebriated on Purim? Assimilation in Ancient Persia The ...

by Rabbi Chanan Morrison The Talmud gives an account of the enigmatic Tachash, a mysterious creature whose beautiful multicolored hid...

Art by Andreas by Rabbi Chanan Morrison, adapted from the writings of Rav Kook The Sages established three daily prayers: Shachar...

by Rabbi Chanan Morrison from the writings of Rav Kook Shortly before his death, Jacob blessed his sons. Some of these blessings, how...