Rav Kook on the Confines of Knowledge

World Religions
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Human beings, by definition, are limited in our intellectual ability to fully grasp Divine Truth. We constantly grow in our knowledge of HaShem with the humble awareness that we will never fully arrive.

Shlomo Yitzḥak teaches from אורות ישראל (Orot Yisrael) 5:4, where Rabbi Avraham Yitzḥak HaKohen Kook explains the difference between Israel’s Torah and world religions, illuminating how understanding the limitations of human intellectual powers can prevent the idolatrous claims that we could fully grasp the Divine.

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