Land of Israel Archives - Israel Rising

A NATION IN PROTEST: Breaking The Illusion and The Need For A New Israeli Ethos

January 5, 2021

Israel, Land of Israel, Politics, Redemption

More than 15 years ago I was dragged out of the Neve Dekalim Synagogue by four soldiers and then bussed out of Gush Katif. In those moments I wondered why and where the protest movement to stop one of the lar...

Trump should let the Quartet die with James Wolfensohn

Moshe Phillips

December 6, 2020

Deep State, Land of Israel, Regional Analysis

James Wolfensohn, the former president of the World Bank Group, passed away on Nov. 15, and in the conclusion of his obituary, The New York Times quoted his “mission impossible” quip about his envoy ...

Why Is Israel’s Deep State So Scared About Jonathan Pollard Moving To Israel?

David Mark

November 23, 2020

Deep State, Land of Israel, Redemption Watch

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Former PM Ehud Olmert attacked the US government's decision to nullify Jonathan Pollard's parole restrictions. "We don't owe him anything," said Olmert. "His coming to Israel will only increase the fallout ...

J Street Uses A Pro-Terrorist EU Bureaucrat To Malign Jewish Neighborhoods

Moshe Phillips

November 21, 2020

Land of Israel, Politics, Regional Analysis

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J Street, in a mid-November email appeal, quoted an unnamed "top EU diplomat" in its tirade against an Israeli government call for bids for new homes in a nearly 30 year-old Jerusalem neighborhood where Ethiop...

Israel is Indivisible

David Mark

February 2, 2020

Land of Israel, Redemption

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The "Deal of the Century"is a game. One group in the Trump administration wants to use this deal to give Israel the power to annex large parts of Judea and Samaria. Another group of the administration believe...

Hebron, the Root of the Nation

David Mark

December 5, 2019

Frontlines, Land of Israel

Rebbe Nachman teaches the following: "Repentance entails returning the thing to where it was taken from. This is the aspect of zarka, about which the holy Zohar brings: It was zarak (thrown back) to the pla...

The Land of Israel is about Balancing the Spiritual and Physical

David Mark

November 28, 2019

Land of Israel, Redemption, Thought

As I noted in my previous article, Rav Kook teaches the following in Orot HaTechiya 28: “The holiness that is expressed from within the physical is the holiness of the Land of Israel. When the Shechina (Div...

Can We Fix the Vessels of Redemption Within the State of Israel?

David Mark

November 26, 2019

Land of Israel, Politics, Redemption

Everything in the physical world can be used as a vessel to either draw or contain Divine Light or the opposite to block it. After all, the Creator seeks to always shine his Will on all of the Creation. The ...

Reclaiming Our National Soul

David Mark

March 7, 2019

Land of Israel, Spiritual

The final struggle over the Land of Israel is not rooted in the physical. While it's true that Yishmael appears to be the violent opposing force to the yidden's ability to draw closure to the galus, exile...

Returning Home, Leaving Our Trauma Behind

David Mark

February 20, 2019

Land of Israel, Redemption

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Inside each Yid is unbounded consciousness. This point of God awareness is wrapped up in the layers of our world. Outside the Land of Israel we had no yearning; either on an individual or a national level...