Entering Sukkot with Rav Shlomo Katz
Sep 22, 2026 · 30 min · 8 segments
Rav Shlomo Katz explores three foundational teachings from Rav Kook directly inside the Sukkah. Citing *Orot HaTeshuva*, *Moadei HaRe'iyah*, and Rav Kook’s commentary on Yaakov Avinu in *Midbar…
Shlomo KatzHost
If you had to imagine what the world would look like when Mashiach comes, you're probably safest with borrowing the eyes of Rav Kook and looking through those eyes.
You're probably safest by reading anything from Rav Kook and take those lens, and that's how we go into the world and look out into the world again.
Because Rav Kook is speaking to us today and l-letting us know how to dream and, uh, what kedai to dream about.
As you all know, Rav Kook was so big on the world of teshuva in the manner in which no one comes close to.
Like Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach said about Rav Kook, he learned absolutely everything possible about the concept of teshuva from all the Sefarim.
And then, like, what he did was he squeezed it like it was a fruit and the juice that came out was Or HaTeshuva.
N-Not that we ever are done with teshuva, but at least post the season of teshuva.
I'm asking all the teachers this, this chag to flow more, less text-based, but just to, to flow more, more from the heart.
Rav Kook writes, "Kol zman sheha'avonot mekashrim et chayehem be'kivlehem, ei efshar lekavot leshivui be'de'ot u'le'achdut shel shalom." What holds us back from really getting it together? What creates the concept of a state of hatred? What holds us back? Rav Kook says it's not so much opinions about each other, but it's much more the avonot, the teshuva that hasn't been done yet, the transgressions, the places we know we need to work on which we don't yet, kovel otanu, it chains us, Rav Kook says.
And as long as it's chained together, Rav Kook says, you can't really expect the world to get it together.
Meaning, I could work hard on, like, saying, "I want peace, I want peace," but if I, if I don't take that very gutsy look at what I have to fix, the problem Rav Kook says is that my transgressions that I've made before, they chain me.
They don't-- they do not allow me to be able to grow and want and achieve what I really want in my pnimiut.
Now, what you really dream of, what you really want is right there available to you.
Acharei she'or ha'teshuvah hofia be'olameinu." We just passed the whole תקופה where or ha'teshuvah, the light of teshuva, has now made its presence once again in the world, and we're continuing to see how it manifests in such a beautiful way.
So through Yom Kippur, the or ha'teshuvah has now shown its face again in the world.
And even though, yeah, this year was different, the or of the teshuvah, the light, the shining light of Yom Kippur made its impression on the world.
"V'chol Yisrael nit'haru mi'chel'at hachet." And the itzumo shel yom, the power of the day itself purified us from whatever poison our transgressions injected into us.
If you had to imagine what the world would look like when Mashiach comes, you're probably safest with borrowing the eyes of Rav Kook and looking through those eyes.
You're probably safest by reading anything from Rav Kook and take those lens, and that's how we go into the world and look out into the world again.
Because Rav Kook is speaking to us today and l-letting us know how to dream and, uh, what kedai to dream about.
As you all know, Rav Kook was so big on the world of teshuva in the manner in which no one comes close to.
Like Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach said about Rav Kook, he learned absolutely everything possible about the concept of teshuva from all the Sefarim.
And then, like, what he did was he squeezed it like it was a fruit and the juice that came out was Or HaTeshuva.
N-Not that we ever are done with teshuva, but at least post the season of teshuva.
I'm asking all the teachers this, this chag to flow more, less text-based, but just to, to flow more, more from the heart.
Rav Kook writes, "Kol zman sheha'avonot mekashrim et chayehem be'kivlehem, ei efshar lekavot leshivui be'de'ot u'le'achdut shel shalom." What holds us back from really getting it together? What creates the concept of a state of hatred? What holds us back? Rav Kook says it's not so much opinions about each other, but it's much more the avonot, the teshuva that hasn't been done yet, the transgressions, the places we know we need to work on which we don't yet, kovel otanu, it chains us, Rav Kook says.
And as long as it's chained together, Rav Kook says, you can't really expect the world to get it together.
Meaning, I could work hard on, like, saying, "I want peace, I want peace," but if I, if I don't take that very gutsy look at what I have to fix, the problem Rav Kook says is that my transgressions that I've made before, they chain me.
They don't-- they do not allow me to be able to grow and want and achieve what I really want in my pnimiut.
Now, what you really dream of, what you really want is right there available to you.
Acharei she'or ha'teshuvah hofia be'olameinu." We just passed the whole תקופה where or ha'teshuvah, the light of teshuva, has now made its presence once again in the world, and we're continuing to see how it manifests in such a beautiful way.
So through Yom Kippur, the or ha'teshuvah has now shown its face again in the world.
And even though, yeah, this year was different, the or of the teshuvah, the light, the shining light of Yom Kippur made its impression on the world.
"V'chol Yisrael nit'haru mi'chel'at hachet." And the itzumo shel yom, the power of the day itself purified us from whatever poison our transgressions injected into us.
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