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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 9 - "Seeing is Believing" (parag. 21-30)
These paragraphs elaborate on the theme that seeing and knowing is better than any attempt to prove logically, and begins explaining the difference between Israel and gentiles.
Ein Aya Various Universal Stages of the Geula Process
Rav Kook examines the various stages of redemption, explaining how (in addition to the obvious oft-mentioned stages of ingathering the exiles, reviving the Hebrew language, army, state etc.) the messianic dream of world prosperity, the State of Israel and world unity can and are realistically and logically gradually coming true.
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 8- "Answering Questions on the Kuzari's Proof from Mass Revelation
How do we know that the "claim" of mass revelation to 2,000,000 witnesses at Mt. Sinai is really true? This important class answers all of the questions skeptics ask about this claim of the Kuzari.
Ein Aya Armies Still Necessary for Balance & the War Against Wars
Rav Kook explains why the world was originally divided into the various seemingly contradicting ideologies and cultures, in order to develop each one respectively. Swords or armies symbolize how each respective ideology defends themselves, as well as deters their opposing ideologies and cultures. On the other hand, the messianic era will be one of peace, and Rav Kook explains the transition to that stage, which mankind is already undergoing.
The Land of Israel LGBT'S IN ISRAEL
The question was asked, how can one make Aliyah with the LGBT parades?
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 7 - Five Accumulative Proofs of G-d
As a preparation for the Kuzari's classic proof of G-d from the mass-revelation at Sinai, we start here with 5 other directions to strengthen our belief which also contribute to what the Kuzari will present as well.
Ein Aya Muscle & Meaning: The Dual Nature of Gevurah (Physical Strength)
Is physical strength and fitness a necessity or an ideal? Although it if often totally overlooked among topics of Judaism, Rav Kook writes that it clearly is also a necessity to deter the many enemies of Israel, but even in Y'mot HaMashiach, in the Messianic era, to a certain extent, it's ideal continues even after our enemies will have been finished off.
