Personalities:

Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik 

Machshava:

Geulah,  Religious Zionism,  Yom Ha'atzmaut 

References: Chagiga: 5b,  Sanhedrin: 98a,  Tanach: Bamidbar/Balak 24:17,  Tanach: Melachim 2 14:24,  Tanach: Melachim 2 14:25,  Tanach: Melachim 2 14:26,  Tanach: Melachim 2 14:26 Radak,  Tanach: Bamidbar/Balak 24:17 Or ha-Chayim,  ????? ?????: HTekufa ha-Gedola (Rav M. M. Kasher) perek 19 / pages 424-426 

Description

This shiur was part of the "Y Club" series of breakfast shiurim at MTA which honestly address larger questions. The threads left open in this shiur were continued on Yom ha-Atzmaut in these shiurim - yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/924233 - Yom ha-Atzmaut shiur #2: Four Kushyos on Medinas Yisrael, Resolved yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/924234 - Yom ha-Atzmaut #3 - Halakhic Man Celebrates Yom ha-Atzmaut