“The source of the hunger is not the hunger itself, but rather the thirst of the men and women of the younger generation. They are fainted by thirst, devoid of the “stay of water” to rekindle the heart and the mind that has reawakened within them from the source of life… the great spiritual questions that were once known only to the great and to the outstanding, must now be known, to various degrees to the whole nation.”
--The Rav Kook, Eder HaYakar (The Goodly Price), p. 144