Machshava:

Rav Kook,  Zionism 

Parsha:

Vayigash 

Collections: Rav Shvat on the Torah

Description

Our sages draw the confrontation between Yehuda and Yosef as the two types of leadership in Jewish history. Through this we can finally understand who exactly is that mysterious "Mashiach ben Yosef", and what Rav Kook (based on the Vilna Gaon) meant when he said that Dr. Herzl had a spark of that Mashiach.