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After the Shoah, Israel's founding and the 6-Day War, it was clear the Redemption was underway. Then came Yom Kippur, '73

A large Religious Zionist congregation in North America slightly amends the standard text of the blessing for the State of Israel authored by Rav Yitzchak Herzog and Rav Ben Zion Hai Uzziel, the chief rabbis of Medinat Yisrael at the time of its founding in 1948. Instead of describing Medinat Yisrael as “reishit tzemichat geulateinu” (the beginning of the flowering of our redemption), it adds the word “shetehei” (that it should become) reishit tzemichat geulateinu.

Does Hashem love me? Can I be a good person if I don’t keep the Torah? Do Observant Jews have all the answers?  An analysis of the two main characters in the book “Letters to Talia”, and a broader look at what it means to be a Jew.  Part 2: The Values observant and being  religious. Being observant means to fulfill our commandments according to the law. But to be religious, I argued, you have to be in touch with the feeling of Judaism, an active participant and not a bystander. Being religious means holding true to Jewish Values. What are Jewish Values? We know some of them off-ha...