Minister of Finance and Chairman of Religious Zionist party wrote that the holiday of Shavuot expresses the deep connection between the Torah and settlement in ‘the Land’
ed note–there are entire libraries of commentary that could accompany this, but in the interests of not over-burdening the already over-burdened Gentile attention span, we’ll keep it ‘short & sweet’ as the saying goes.
It is a very popular (1st red flag) notion tossed about on a regular basis within pro-Palestinian/anti-Zionist circles that Zionism is a ‘secular’ commodity that runs counter to Torah Judah-ism and all of its peace, love, justice, and that in its ‘authentic’ essence, it, i.e. the religion of the Jews, is ‘sugar & spice & everything nice’.
All sorts of people adhere to fairy tales such as this for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is that–
1. No one wants to be called a ‘bigot’ and accused of being ‘judgmental’ against another’s religion…
And–
2. A very well-oiled and EFFECTIVE propaganda campaign has been waged for years on the Gentile brain by all sorts of spellcasters, including these guys–
–whose ‘schtick’ is that Zionism and Judah-ism are completely contrary to each other and that not a smidgeon of ‘authentic’ Torah Judah-ism could ever be construed as having given birth to the vicious and bloodthirsty beast all are witnessing today.
When the truth of the matter (and an easily proven truth at that) is that nothing could be further from the truth, given that–
Zionism is to Judah-ism what apples are to the tree from whence they dropped…
And so, ladies and Gentile-men…Friends, Romans, Countrymen, as much as we hate to give the terrorist Jew Smotrich credit for having told the truth in this case, which is that the bond between the Jews’ Torah and Zionism is like the bond between ‘water’ and ‘wet’, nevertheless, even the devil must be given his due, and in this case, just like a broken clock being right twice a day, Smotrich is correct.
There is no Zionism without Judah-ism, and there is no Judah-ism without the Torah.
Israel National News
Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister and chairman of the Religious Zionism Party, published a special column today in honor of the Shavuot holiday, in which he discussed the inseparable connection between the giving of the Torah and Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel.
According to Smotrich, although some people view these two dimensions as separate worlds, they are actually a single expression of the bond between the Jewish people, the Torah, and the land that has been promised to them.
Smotrich wrote that Shavuot places at its center both ‘the spirit and the book’ as well as ‘the soil, the tractor, and the agricultural produce born of our labor.’ He emphasized that the Torah ‘is not disconnected from life,’ but rather is linked to the commandments tied to the land.
Smotrich added that ‘Zionism without a connection to Torah is a body without a soul, and it becomes lost,’ while clarifying that the Torah was also never intended to remain confined within the walls of only the study hall.
‘The Torah was given so that we would illuminate all of reality through it – the battlefield, economy, and culture,’ he wrote.
At the conclusion of the column, Smotrich addressed the current security reality and the connection between Torah study and military service.
‘When we see fighters who combine book and sword, who charge forward with a sacred book in their uniform pocket, and some of whom tragically do not return, we understand the depth of this connection,’ he wrote.
He added that on the night of Shavuot, ‘we will reconnect to the giving of the Torah, and through it continue to build and develop our land and our state.’