Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook

Rabbi Kalonski's message to Yeshiva students

The Rabbi denounced calls not to serve in the IDF as 'stupid and wicked' and called for Yeshiva students to enter the Hesder track as a minimum.

Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook explains the spies:

Parashat Shlach: Halfway Emunah

In discouraging aliyah to Israel, the spies did not have Emunah. In other matters, they did believe. They believed, and yet they didn’t believe.

The Great Call:

Hashem hates the Exile

Read Rabbi Kook's proclamation to Diaspora Jewry.

Our Rabbi on Yom Haatzmaut

A heartbroken cry in 1947 becomes a clarion call and prophecy in 1967, as HaRav Tzvi Yehuda Kook rejoices over the State of Israel even though it is not perfect. And on each Yom HaAtzmaut he danced with great joy.

Can Gedolim err?

The Sages of the Great Sanhedrin were the leading Rabbis of the time, yet the Torah defines a situation where even they can make an error of judgment.

Purim:

A time of brotherly love, no exceptions

The holiday of Purim encompassing the miracle, the salvation, happiness, the Diaspora, Eretz Yisrael, the Jerusalem Temple and more....

Yahrzeit on Adar 14:

Who was Rav Tzvi Yehuda Kook-Father of the "Settlement Movement"?

Interview with a rabbi who studied with him for twelve years: "HaRav Tzvi Yehuda vehemently maintained that no handful of Israeli soil, however small, is allowed to be transferred to foreign control."

Invitation to Greatness

The gleam in Rav Tzvi Yehuda Kook's eyes sparkled with extra warmth when he met with students from abroad who he hoped would move to Israel. When a Jew lives in Israel, his whole life is a mitzvah. A mitzvah which is equal in weight to all of the mitzvot of the Torah.

If AI were to run the government...

The State of Israel and all of its government ministers and all of its citizens must do serious heartfelt Teshuva. This is what October 7th is telling us.

Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook on Ki Tetse:

Faith in troubled times

The beloved Rosh Yeshiva of Merkaz HaRav, known as the "father of the settlements" gave a clear message to his fighter students.

Rav Kook Torah

Shlach: Rejecting the Land of Israel

A new meaning for the verse 'May you see the good of Jerusalem.'

Can Gedolim err?

When the Rebbe of Belz came on aliyah, he said, ‘We realize now that we erred in our estrangement from Eretz Yisrael.’

Rav Tzvi Yehuda on IDF service of Yeshiva students

Heaven forbid that every yeshiva student go into the army! And Heaven forbid that none of them go!

The father of the "Settlement Movement"

To commemorate the yahrtzeit of HaRav Tzvi Yehuda Kook on Purim Katan, an interview with Rabbi David Samson, one of Rav Tzvi Yehuda’s longtime students.

The first Tu B’Shvat in Shilo

Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda HaCohen Kook planted a sapling in Shilo on the first Tu B'shvat celebrated there. His stirring words continue tol inspire and a reserve soldier has written a timely addtion to them.

Why Diaspora Jews don’t understand that they belong in Israel

The spark of love in their souls for the Land of Israel, a part of our genetic inheritance from our holy forefathers, needs to be lit

Feeling down is not an option

There is no permission to engage in melancholy, whether in private or public mourning.

Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook: No pity for enemies of Jews!

"May G-d save us from those saying we have to judge favorably the murderers who come to slaughter us!: Convince them? With tanks!"

'Where is the agreement?' The Yom Kippur War and Rav Kook

Tears rolled down my face, releasing the pain and bitterness bottled inside, softening the grief...from the horrible events I had witnessed.

Spokesman for Hebron: Rabbi Kook resurrected the holy city

Dr. Noam Arnon says the visionary rabbi's vision helped resuscitate the community of Hebron years after its community was massacred.

'Torat Eretz Yisrael' for everyone - a new digital library

Although not yet completed, the library can already be used to see articles on Purim and the teachings of Rabbi Tvi Yehuda Kook.

The story of the gold watch

Beware of humiliating Talmidei Chachamim. A lesson for today...

Israeli Rabbis on the subject of aliyah

From Zion the Torah will go forth.

Dawn of Redemption

Rabbi Kook: Be strong...concerning the holy ways that our sacred ancestors and rabbis taught us...add to this a connection to the Holy Land.

The "Father of the Settlements"

Rav Tzvi Yehuda Kook: "it is not the settlement of Israel which is illegal-its prevention is illegal-the Torah commands we settle the land."

Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook – educator of generations

​​​​​​​The yeshivot, mechinot and midrashot for men and women were established through the power of Rav Tzvi Yehuda and his teachings.

The religious value of national Independence

Jewish independence in Eretz Yisrael ushers in the Messianic era.

In Memory of Rabbi Eliezer Waldman ztz”l

Rabbi Waldman’s awaiting the Prophets' vision to be fulfilled was tangible, it led him to initiate settlement in Judea and Samaria.

Mashiach, Mashiach, Mashiach

"The ingathering of the exiles, and Jewish sovereignty over Eretz Yisrael – Medinat Yisrael – are clear steps in the process of Mashiach.".

Leading rabbi's letters donated to Israel's National Library

Personal letters from the Hazon Ish, legendary leader of haredi Jewry, come to Jerusalem's National Library of Israel.

Mizmor 19 of the State of Israel

Redemption is a process. One that is gradual and continuous. It has ups and downs.

Happy Independence Day!

Rav Tzvi Yehuda said: Our joy on this day is the joy of a mitzvah. We have merited fulfilling the mitzva to dwell in Eretz Yisrael, Op-ed.

Post election tribute to Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook zts"l

As votes are counted, recall Rav Tzvi Yehuda's words: 'The building of Eretz Yisrael is accomplished by every segment of the Nation.' Op-ed.

Nissan: 'How splendid this tree is!'

Torah from the late dean of Merkaz Harav Yeshiva, the 'father of the settlement movement' to whom every bit of Israel's earth was holy.

Return to the gates of Zion - 1967

Rav Tzvi Yehudah Kook did not rend his clothes on seeing the Kotel, the Western Wall, or viewing the Temple Mount, after the Six Day War.

Shir haMaalot, Psalm 126, and the sanctity of the Land of Israel

Psalm 126, wrote Rabbi Kook, shows the uniqueness of Eretz Yisrael in giving us the ability to unite means to a goal and its ends.

The Likud and Rav Tzvi Yehuda Kook

Tachanun on Erev Yom Haatzmaut

Rabbi Z.Y. Kook On Rabbi Meir Kahane in the Knesset

Interview with the head of Machon Shilo, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim.

The Holocaust - Why?

'For me he's the Rebbe who always walks with me'

Ira Rappaport, student of Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, tearfully recalls fateful encounter one Yom Kippur: 'Thanks to him I live in Israel.'

What is the Chief Rabbinate's role in the Jewish State?

Orbach: Rabbi Kook Against ‘Price Tag’

MK reminds public that leading religious-Zionist rabbi was strongly against attacks on Arabs.

Rabbis Discuss Rav Tzvi Yehuda Kook, 'Father of Settlements'

Rav Yuval Cherlow: the settlement movement is a result of his philosophy and policy.