In this third class on Rav Kook’s Meimor HaDor, we continued exploring his breathtaking reading of our generation — a generation torn between greatness and confusion, light and darkness, trauma and renewal.

We began with Rav Kook’s raw validation of the pain of modern Jewish history: the silence, the shame, the collapse of dignity, and the deep psychic wounds carried by both parents and children. But in this class, we watched Rav Kook make a gentle, powerful turn — from acknowledging the trauma to showing us the first steps of healing.

Rav Kook describes a generation that is paradoxically very low and very high. A generation filled with humility and chutzpah, rebellion and idealism, spiritual thirst and moral frustration. Children embarrassing parents, norms dissolving, confusion everywhere — not because the generation has fallen, but because the souls have risen and the old vessels can no longer contain their light.

We learned how Rav Kook reframes this inner collision as the birth pangs of spiritual evolution, and how to begin moving forward with compassion, dignity, and vision. We also learned a beautiful supporting source in Orot HaTechiyah 39, which deepens this theme of a generation struggling to hold powerful lights in fragile vessels.

A shiur about trauma, healing, inner greatness, and the complex soul of Dor HaGeulah.