We are constantly mourning our predicament – Our yearning for completion, for living in a world of strife and shifting to a world of redeemed purpose. Yet, we have been mourning our loss of connection and lack of clarity…
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…
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…
Within each of us there is a king ready to conquer our inner Amalek if only we would create the space to allow our Godly root to take control. Subscribe to Israel Rising’s video channel and Soundcloud channel for…
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 for uncovering…
Deep inside the Nation of Israel there is a yearning to be home. Home is not just a piece of real estate or a space for a national enterprise, but rather forms an intrinsic component of the Nation’s being.…
(Featured image source: יעל זאבי) Renowned Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua, of the “Peace Camp,” and Executive Director of American Friends of Ariel Avi Zimmerman, of the “Nationalist Camp,” sit at the same table to discuss Israeli politics. In this segment…
This week’s Torah portion is Shlakh Lekha. As the Hebrew Nation mobilized to liberate the Land of Israel from Canaanite rule, Moshe dispatched a team of twelve tribal chiefs – each the spiritual leader of his tribe – to spy…
In order to appreciate the full significance of Israel’s Independence Day, one must clarify what the day is meant to commemorate as well as what this connotes within the context of Jewish history and Torah Law. One of the…
The intractability of the 100-year dispute between Jew and Arab over the Land of Israel is rooted not in its complexity, but its brutal simplicity. Until 1967, Israel did not hold an inch of the Sinai Peninsula and the…