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Answer: Religious Zionism is not dissolving. To the contrary, it is growing and branching out, like a tree that grows and spreads its branches in all directions. The branches spread out, and as they do the distance between them grows. What we are witnessing is not division and estrangement but growth and expansion, for all of the branches are attached to the same stem and roots.
The growth and success of your local garin Torani reflects the situation in many places in Israel. New yeshivas are popping up and old yeshivas are becoming more established; numerous Kollels and yeshiva high schools are being founded; settlement in Judah and Samaria is growing more quickly than in any other place in Israel, despite the government’s evil decrees.
The higher the building, the longer the shadow it casts. If a person looks at the shadow alone he sees growing darkness, but if a person looks for the cause of the shadow, he discerns that it is the building that is growing. This is the way of the world. "The more possessions a person accumulates, the more worry he accumulates."
Religious Zionism is growing, and the more it grows and flourishes, the more it encounters opposition. Growth leads to increased variety, and each of the various branches concentrates on its own unique features. Even though all of the branches receive nourishment from the same root, each seeks to develop its uniqueness. The individual branch is cautious about unity so long as it has not fully established itself, for it fears being swallowed up by the whole. However, once its own unique role has been established, it rejoins the others. After all, all of these various approaches feed from the same source.
Religious Zionism embraces the ideal of national redemption in an all-encompassing sense - one that includes the entire Torah, the entire nation, and the entire land. This goal, which unites all of these ideals, will ultimately be reached. Because of its loftiness many obstacles will have to be overcome, but ultimate victory is guaranteed, for God goes before us and leads us to our complete redemption.
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Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 5- "Proofs of G-d"
This may be the most important class of the entire book, where we finally get to the Jewish proof of the existence of G-d and truth of the Torah. We should follow His own direction where He tells us how to get to Him: through the Nation of Israel: Jewish history, Jewish prophets (and today, prophecies fulfilled), and national reward & punishment towards Am Yisrael.
Ein Aya One Humanity, One Creator, One Jerusalem
Rav Kook innovatively and beautifully explains this aggadeta where our sages say that after Jerusalem was destroyed her cinnamon fragrance is only found locked in a particular kingdom's treasury.
Shlach Lecha "Why So Many Don't Make Aliya?" - Parshat Shlach
This short article deals with the weird phenomena that every single time Am Yisrael is meant to enter the Land of Israel, throughout the Tanach, 2nd Temple and until today, they "chicken out" and look for excuses. What's the problem with this mitzvah that proves so challenging. The article, based on sources, suggests that the difficulties of Eretz Yisrael is precisely her secret and beauty!
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 4
The class deals with Islam and how the Muslim tries convincing the King of the Khazars, and why he was also rejected.
Beha'alotcha JEWISH STATE= GUIDE TO G-DLINESS & SELFLESSNESS
A Jewish State not only is a good idea, but educates us towards selflessness, altruism and G-dliness in our daily lives.
Ein Aya In Zion Even the Smoke of the Bark is Sweet
Just as Jewish nationalism is different from others, so too our capitol of Jerusalem is totally different than other national capitols. Rav Kook beautifully explains the passage in the Talmud that the trees of Yerushalayim were cinnamon trees.
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 3
The second speaker invited to convince the Khazar King is the Christian, who presents their beliefs. Even before the questions of the King, "between the lines", the author R. Yehuda HaLevi already begins disproving them.
Ein Aya "Intimacy: Love, Life & Giving or Egocentric Taking & Expiration"
Today, many confuse between intimacy in marriage, based on love, giving and life which are diametrically opposed to empty "sex", pornography and prostitution which destroyed the Beit HaMikdash. The practical importance of clarifying this topic in today's western society is obvious, especially for young adults.
