WELCOMING SHABBAT

Shabbat is more than a day of refraining from worldly activity.

When experienced to its spiritual fullest, its holiness enlightens all other days of the week.

We invite you to enhance your Shabbat with these words of Torah.

 

Oil painting of a man in traditional Jewish attire standing on a mountaintop at sunrise, arms open toward a radiant golden sky. The warm light fills the landscape, symbolizing divine presence and spiritual awareness inspired by Rav Kook’s vision of seeing God’s light in all creation.

Parashat Re’eh: Redeeming Relevance: How to See God in the World

Parashat Re’eh: Redeeming Relevance: How to See God in the World

Nataf, Rabbi Francis
August 13, 2020

“…Rav Kook’s propensity to see God’s light in everything… came from two things – a true and constant awareness of God’s existence, and a conscious decision to live one’s life according to that awareness.

…Whether in its variation or in its norms, the world around us provides countless ways to see God. But that will only happen to someone who is looking for them. In other words if we really want to see God, we must also seek God.”