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Ma'amar HaDor, first piece, P5. Rav Kook's generation is talking a lot but is not talking about the great pain, both physical and spiritual, that they are feeling inside. In real truth, they are not a low or even sinful generation. When a child is cursing and yelling at their parents, they are really saying that they want their parents' love. The tzaddik doesn't look at the sin a person did, but at the brokenness in the person that led them to do the sin. The word 'nechama' really means to see something from a different perspective, which then leads to the experience of comfort. There is so much anger and despair in the Jewish world, that we are not even paying attention to how we can actually help the Jewish people. Assimilation ended up not being the answer in Europe.