'Torat Eretz Yisrael' for everyone - a new digital library

• Author: Israel National News
• Published date: 06 March 2023
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

Torat Eretz Yisrael is the name given to the special outlook on Torah as lived in the Holy Land, inspired and developed by Rabbi Avraham HaCohen Kook, Israel's first Chief Rabbi, famed Torah luminary and icon of Religious Zionism

Often considered the baal tshuva counterpart of the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva, Machon Meir was founded almost 50 years ago by HaRav Dov Begon who still serves as Rosh Yeshiva. The well-known Torah institution offers learning programs for Israelis with divisions for English-speakers, French, Spanish, and Russian.

Israel National News spoke with the writer and movie director Tzvi Fishman, one of the initiators of the Digital Library which houses hundreds of articles on Torat Eretz Yisrael in English and which, he says, will include a wide assortment of creative films in addition to the hundreds of filmed Torah lessons already available for viewing.

Presently featured on the yet unfinished "library-in-construction" are articles on Purim and on the teachings of Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, zt"l,whose yahrtzeit falls next week.

Some of the bookis (now digitalized) on Torah Eretz YisraelCourtesy

Machon Meir's plan is have the complete multi-media...