Q&A: The Land of Israel
The Land of Israel
Question
Hello Rabbi. I would be glad to know your opinion regarding the famous passage of Rabbi Kook:
The Land of Israel is not something external, an external possession of the nation, merely as a means to the end of general national consolidation and the maintenance of its material existence, or even its spiritual existence.
The Land of Israel is an essential unit, bound by a bond of life with the nation, embraced with inner qualities together with its very reality.
And therefore it is impossible to grasp the content of the unique holiness of the Land of Israel, and to actualize the depth of its love, through any human rational understanding, but only through the spirit of God that rests upon the nation as a whole, through the natural spiritual imprint that is in the soul of Israel, which sends out its lines in natural colors through all the paths of healthy feeling, and sheds its supreme radiance in accordance with that measure of the supreme spirit of holiness that fills with life and sublime sweetness the hearts of those holy in ideal and the depths of Israelite thought.
Answer
I have no idea, and I assume he didn’t either. He is expressing feelings that I simply do not have.