Machshava:

Yom Ha'atzmaut,  Zionism 

Parsha:

Metzora,  Tazria 

Collections: R' Brander 4 Minute Video Series

Description

One of the questions that has been asked often in this generation is, Can the State of Israel really be the beginning of the Jewish People’s final redemption? After all, how can God’s work begin and be developed through people like Ben Gurion, who was not an observant Jew? Can it be that a non-observant Jew could be the leader of such a movement, of such a revolution, of such a Ma’aseh HaShem – an miraculous act of God? Rav Ahron Soloveichik, z”l, wrote that anyone who is motivated to save the Jewish People can be God’s shaliach, God’s messenger. We are not here to question who God uses as His emissaries to bring the redemption, but we must have Hakarat haTov, we must celebrate what HaKadosh Baruch Hu has done in this generation.