Hi,
This will be controversial, but it is also Torah:
"Not in order to shine as a nation among nations do we
raise our prayers and hopes for a reunion in our land, but in order to find a
soil for the better fulfillment of our spiritual vocation in that reunion and
in that land which was promised, and given, and again promised for our
observance of the Torah. But this very vocation obliges us, until G-d shall
call us back to the Holy Land, to live and to work as patriots wherever He has
placed us… It obliges us, further, to allow our longing for the far-off land to
express itself only in mourning, in wishing and hoping; and only through the
honest fulfillment of all Jewish duties to await the realization of this hope.
But it forbids us to strive for the reunion or possession of the land by any
but spiritual means."
(Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, Horeb, paragraph 608)
Have a great day,
Mordechai
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