Machshava:

Rav Kook 

Collections: Rav Shvat on the Torah

Description

Many current issues and events in Israel, are directly connected with the question whether Israel is going to be run like a "shtetl", or like a modern state with rules and regulations implemented equally. If the Supreme Court and legal advisors change their mind to apply different laws for protests, day-care center regulations, army drafting, building permits, tax collecting, Arabs murdering eachother, depending upon whose ox is being gored - one law for leftists, a different one for rightists, a third for Haredim and a 4th law for Arabs, there is a clear lack of governing, and we are still in the "shtetl mindset". This is another example of how we must consciously change the galut mentality, for the sake of running a Jewish State, as it should be.