Hello Everyone,
We learned last week that for Rav Kook, the great tragedy of Tisha b’Av is that we lost our opportunity to influence Western culture. Today we will continue to study this idea of Rav Kook’s. The text which will form the basis for the discussion is the story of the martyrdom of Rabbi Yehuda ben Babba.
After studying Rav Kook we will see how Emanuel Levinas, the French philosopher, expressed similar ideas in his critique of Simone Weil.