[Avodah] nidche

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 01:11:26PM -0700, Harry Maryles wrote:
: I asked my Rebbe, RAS about this and he told me that he said Hallel only
: on YhA. That Israel came back inot the hands of the Jewish people after
: 2000 years was a far more signifcant event than the return of Jerusalem.

In previous incarnations of this thread (which must bore or frustrate
the non- and anti-Zionists of our chevrah), I expressed my instinct that
there was one major way in which YY was more significant than YhA.

One cannot compare the state of kiruv before the 6 Day War with that
after. Kiruv wouldn't be a movement today had we not recaptured Y-m.
The resurgance of Jewish Pride and the feeling that we were witnessing
something truly momentus motivated a search for tradition that did
not occur in 1948. (It being the 1960s and then early 70s, a time when
spirituality and finding a cause was part of the zeitgeist didn't hurt.)
While I think that's self evident, for people who would prefer to have a
gadol's word for it, see "Bein Sheishes leAsor" and "Or LaShav" by RSWolbe
-- collections of lectures he gave in the year or two after the '67 War.

Religious awakening is something in common with Chanukah and Purim,
other days of Hallel.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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