By Dov Schwartz, Batya Stein

Spiritual Zionism emerged as an prepared political circulate in 1902, rebelling opposed to the ethos of passivity counseled by means of a commonly anti-Zionist japanese eu Orthodoxy. this article provides religious-Zionists as a brand new spiritual kind, pushed through specific theological conceptions that think again basic notions, together with God, religion, and old approach. Dov Schwartz's precise research exposes the roots of a political flow that has confirmed crucially influential in Israeli politics, either prior to and after the institution of the kingdom.

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130. Bernstein who, as noted, supports the value of rational inquiry and relies on Maimonides, does not agree with Hirschensohn on this point either. ’] is faith. And not just faith in general, which is the foundation of all religions… but the faith that made and makes us a unique class in the world and is the foundation of all the values and spiritual and material assets branching off from it, singling us out from all nations and tongues” (Bernstein, Mission and Pathway, p. 95. , pp. 215-220).

13-15 (1928), p. 183. 69 Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, Hegyionei Uziel [Hebrew], (Jerusalem: Ha-Va‘ad Le-Hotsa’at Kitve Ha-Rav, 1992-1993), vol. 1, p. 190. faith: sources and problems 27 We are back, then, to the unambiguous view stated by Shragai, which opened this chapter. The vast majority of religious-Zionist thinkers developed their ideology on the assumption that philosophical and creedal foundations are the basis of praxis, and that Judaism highlights praxis only in response to ongoing events.

84 In other words, Gentile faith is fundamentally lacking in any positive content and, at most, can refrain from negative heretic opinions. Worse still, this empty faith seeks to impose itself upon Israel. Harlap appears to be expounding here on 82 Harlap follows Kook’s approach, generally assuming psychological unity. For instance: “In truth, thought and will are one, and one cannot be without the other,” Mei Merom: On the Prayer book (Jerusalem: Bet Zevul, 979), p. 105. ” Other modern translations and commentators, such as Kafih and Shailat, have also followed this rendering.

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