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  Y'RUSHALAYIM- HARMONIZING RELIGION-NATIONALISM-UNIVERSALISM

  • Speaker: Rabbi Ari Shvat (Chwat)  
  • Date: Yesterday
  • Machshava:

    Rav Kook,
    Holidays:

    Yom Yerushalayim,
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  "Is it Time to Change Our Name to: "Religious-Zionist-Universalist"?- Yom Yerushalayim"

  • Speaker: Rabbi Ari Shvat (Chwat)  
  • Date: Yesterday
  • Machshava:

    Rav Kook,
    Holidays:

    Yom Yerushalayim,
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  "The Good Free-Will Enables the Temporary Choice of Bad- Even Terrible" (Ayn Aya Shabbat v, 79)

  • Speaker: Rabbi Ari Shvat (Chwat)  
  • Date: May 18, 2025
  • Machshava:

    Rav Kook,
  • Duration: 41 min

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  Orchot Tzaddikim class 56, "Stay Quiet" part ii

  • Speaker: Rabbi Ari Shvat (Chwat)  
  • Date: May 13, 2025
  • Halacha:

    Lashon Harah,
    Machshava:

    Mussar,
  • Duration: 42 min

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  Lag BaOmer-R. AKIVA'S STUDENTS WERE THE BAR KOCHVA REBELLION- New Sources!

  • Speaker: Rabbi Ari Shvat (Chwat)  
  • Date: May 16, 2025
  • Machshava:

    Religious Zionism,
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  "Even the Wise Shouldn't Skip Stages" (Ayn Aya Shabbat v, 78)

  • Speaker: Rabbi Ari Shvat (Chwat)  
  • Date: May 11, 2025
  • Machshava:

    History,

    Rav Kook,
  • Duration: 43 min

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  A Taste of Kabbala- The Depth and Beauty of the Hebrew Language & Aleph-Bet

  • Speaker: Rabbi Ari Shvat (Chwat)  
  • Date: Dec 20, 2023
  • Machshava:

    Rav Kook,

    Kabbalah,

    Hebrew,
  • Duration: 48 min

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  Orot HaMilchama part iv- Wars & Selflessness- Part of the Process of Geula

  • Speaker: Rabbi Ari Shvat (Chwat)  
  • Date: Nov 19, 2023
  • Machshava:

    Rav Kook,

    Religious Zionism,

    Geulah,
  • Duration: 49 min

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  Orot HaMilchama part iii - "Why Gevura- Physical & Military Strength are Important?"

  • Speaker: Rabbi Ari Shvat (Chwat)  
  • Date: Nov 12, 2023
  • Halacha:

    Health,
    Machshava:

    Rav Kook,

    Religious Zionism,
  • Duration: 51 min

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  Orot HaMilchama (part ii)- Additional Reasons Rav Kook Gives for Importance of Physical/Military Strength

  • Speaker: Rabbi Ari Shvat (Chwat)  
  • Date: Nov 05, 2023
  • Halacha:

    War,
    Machshava:

    Rav Kook,

    Religious Zionism,
  • Duration: 51 min

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  Orot HaMilchama- Rav Kook on Relating to Wars- Introduction (=chap. 2)-Why Biblical Heroes are Physically/Militarily Strong?

  • Speaker: Rabbi Ari Shvat (Chwat)  
  • Date: Oct 29, 2023
  • Halacha:

    War,
    Machshava:

    Israel,

    Rav Kook,
  • Duration: 45 min

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  'Rav Kook Prepared Us Well for the War on Hamas'- The Situation in Israel- How to React on the Personal, Family & National Level?"

  • Speaker: Rabbi Ari Shvat (Chwat)  
  • Date: Oct 15, 2023
  • Machshava:

    Rav Kook,

    Religious Zionism,
  • Duration: 52 min

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