Israel is Indivisible
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 believes there is…
Hebron, the Root of the Nation
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 place from which it…
The Land of Israel is about Balancing the Spiritual and Physical
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 (Divine Presence) descended…
Can We Fix the Vessels of Redemption Within the State of Israel?
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.…
Reclaiming Our National Soul
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, the fact that…