I Will Speak with My Heart

by Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook

I will speak with my heart, and my spirit will seek, it will seek and it will find, it will seek with the lamp of Hashem, which is the human soul. And [God’s] thought of Israel, which preceded everything else, will illumine with the ultimate strength the source of all the letters of the Torah.

“Behold, a nation like a young lion will stand and like a lion will arise.”

“Behold I shall open your graves and take you up from your graves with me, and bring you to the land of Israel.”

“‘And I will place my spirit upon you and give you life’—in the past, I gave you Torah, in the future I will give you life.’”

The soul of Israel, the source of Torah, will find itself. And when it finds its essence, all of the letters of the Torah will gleam before it with their beautiful radiance of life, and they shall be called by a new name, a new name that the mouth of Hashem will designate.

From the brilliance of the sight of the salvation of the whole, the light of the individual— which has nothing besides that which is in the whole—will shine.

“And the survivor in Zion and the remnant in Jerusalem will be called holy, each one who is written for life in Jerusalem.”

Chadarav, p. 188