State of Israel - Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

from Bay Spanish. So, uh we like to treat this as a class rather than a performance. Um I hope I'm feeling your brain, of course, your heart as well, but particularly your brain. I spoke about yon moment gesture for men for women. Now I'm speaking to the message is not different but the context is extremely different. We are a yeshiva and although our population is much different than uh I guess the student bodies of most of the in in this country. We were part of the yeshiva system. We identified with it. Technically though we have to wait in your sh uh the world of the yeshivas ignores yoma and yaw and your man's load al together. I remember all my years in the mirror like there was no way of knowing. Of course, you never heard the sirens because the learning of bass was just so loud. barely heard your your own voice. It was totally ignoring. Um, and we understood where it was coming from. I say we don't want to be presumptuous, but you know, there's the party line and then there's people who know better. We understood the statement that was being made by ignoring and we got the message. But I say all thinking people also understood that this black and white philosophy, Ashkafa as we call it was something that was perhaps a necessity for the sake of giving clear messages. But it came at the expense of really giving the total perspective. You know, with the creation of the state, there was a lot of confusion. We have to remember the Holocaust sort of ended in 45. The state was declared in 48. I wasn't alive yet. I heard the account from my parents 48. They were immigrants

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1. 0:00from Bay Spanish. So, uh we like to treat this as a class rather than a…
2. 3:10people who know better. We understood the statement that was being made by ignoring and we…
3. 6:54After all the years, the years of goas the Jewish nation remained Jewish. We finally made…
4. 10:07was a lot more open to the fact that something did in fact happen that was…
5. 13:56The idea that this is not the as religious Zionism wants us to believe. The idea…
6. 17:04If we were no longer the wandering Jews, they'll put an end to the Jewish problem.…
7. 20:43The yeshiva world does not want to associate with secular Zionism and not religious Zionism and…
8. 23:46yet. How could we not be grateful? How can we not celebrate the fact that we're…
9. 27:35but technically speaking we don't say hollow you want to say hollow say without a bra…
10. 30:52and it's so all of you. We're often accused of not being Zionistic enough by Zionists…

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