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This ma'amar, HaDor (The Generation) was written in 1906 as a response to what Rav Kook saw as the desperate need of the generation. 1904 was the year of the Second Aliyah to Eretz Yisrael, when Rav Kook came to Eretz Yisrael to be the Rav of Yafo (Jaffa). At the time, the collision between the secularists and the religious Jews finally hit Eretz Yisrael, specifically in the process of settling the land. Rav Kook was correct that the abandonment of Torah in the generation was a result of a desire to return to healthy life in our own land, though this does not seem make sense on the surface. The smallness of Jewish life is what drove the youth to want freedom, but their mistake is that they blamed Judaism on all of the Jewish people's problems. Rav Kook saw that it was his job to lead the effort to build a bridge between the old and new generations. Rav Kook saw secular Zionism as avodah zara (idolatry). Is this ma'amar still relevant 100 years later in our generation?
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