Land of Israel Archives - Israel Rising

Replacing Mourning With The Song of Joy

August 2, 2020

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...

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...

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...

The King Within

David Mark

February 21, 2019

Redemption, Spiritual

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. https://youtu.be/YQUbxgIBwt4 Subscribe to Israel Risin...

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...

The Land and Nation Are One

David Mark

February 6, 2019

Redemption

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. Thi...

[watch] “Peace” Camp Leader: There Are Too Many Settlers To Evacuate, We Must Try Something Else

Gavriel Dan

January 5, 2017

Frontlines, Video

(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 tab...

The Sin of the Spies in Every Generation

Yehuda HaKohen

June 24, 2016

Thought

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 hi...

Yom Ha’atzmaut – Israel’s Commandment For Independence On Its Land

Yehuda HaKohen

May 12, 2016

The Society, Thought

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....

The Conflict Over the Land of Israel Is Very Simple

Martin Sherman

May 2, 2016

Regional Analysis

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 Penins...

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