[Avodah] Sobering Thoughts as Israel's Independence Day Approaches

[Daniel Bukingolts]

...What a tragedy if this State, either by
delusion or folly, were to prolong the Galus and provoke new and
terrible catastrophes! May Hashem prevent this from happening.
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As someone who is strongly in the not tzioni camp, one thing I have been
struggling with is if the state of Israel could possibly be prolonging the
geulah.... why all the seemingly huge miracles to create and keep its
existence? How do you explain 48 war? 67? Do you just write it off by
saying... in the path a person wants to go Hashem guides him? (or whatever
the phrase is...)




On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Yitzchok Levine
<Larry.Levine at stevens.edu>wrote:

>  Israel's Independence will be celebrated on 4/19.
>
> Below are some thoughts regarding the founding of the Jewish State from A
> Unique Perspective: The Essays of Rav Dr. Joseph Breuer.
>
> Page 358
>
> Anyone who is imbued with the eternal truth and validity of
> God’s Torah will have to be aware that a state on God’s holy soil
> will only be able to endure if the conditions that God has set down
> for a Jewish state on His holy soil are met. These conditions apply
> to the Jewish entity and to the life of every individual who declares
> himself a member of God’s People.
>
> Every word in our Torah is ironclad testimony to these facts.
>
> Page 359
>
> We have expressed it repeatedly in all clarity and intensity: This
> state will have a future only if, and as long as, it is organized as a
> Jewish state, i.e., a state of God, rising on sacred soil. It will be a
> state of God if it proclaims the Torah as the fundamental law of its
> constitution and propagates its practical realization in the life of our
> people.
>
> Page 365
>
> There must live in us this unshakeable conviction: This State
> will last only if it will rise as God’s State on God-holy soil. This
> alone will prevent it from suffering the fate of the previous Jewish
> States. Will this State live up to this condition? It is still a question,
> a source of terrible worry. We wished it were no longer a question!
> As certain as it is that this State, the mere fact of its formation,
> does not mean that the Ge’ulah has arrived, just as potent is its
> ability —as perhaps never before in our Galus-history—to hasten
> the coming of the Ge’ulah. What a tragedy if this State, either by
> delusion or folly, were to prolong the Galus and provoke new and
> terrible catastrophes! May Hashem prevent this from happening.
>
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