Nachdaily: 5 Minute Perek Of Tanach Covering The Entire Navi. Sefer Yehoshua, Shoftim, Shmuel, Melachim, Yeshaya, Yirmiya, Ye

In this shiur, we continued Rav Kook’s Meimor HaDor and explored his deeply compassionate diagnosis of our generation. Rav Kook teaches that this generation is not sinful or rebellious, but rather emotionally flooded — drowning in spiritual pain. The confusion, anger, distancing, and breakdown we see are not signs of moral failure, but of souls overwhelmed by intensity they cannot yet regulate or contain. Rav Kook pleads with the leaders and rabbis of his time to respond not with fear, punishment, or scorn, but with empathy, good words, and deep, honest teaching. True leadership, he argues, begins with compassion — the ability to see even ideological opponents, including Zionist youth, as suffering souls in need of guidance and healing, not enemies to be crushed. We also explored Rav Kook’s radical insight that the very cultural forces that damaged the generation must be transformed into tools of healing. In Rav Kook’s time, this meant redeeming literature and intellectual culture. In our generation, this