Q&A- Army Drafting, Black Hats & Types of Zionism (Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz)

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I mean, I'm not sure if I fully understand the question. The question is that you say a nation-state is a more modern idea. And in the ancient world, there was what? What did you say was there? More tribes and principalities. Right. Okay, that that that is very true. In other words, obviously, the concept of nations we have a tradition there are 70 nations based on the children of Noah. All of the nations were ethnic groups, people that shared a common ancestry. The Jewish people are a nation other than gayrim that share a common than gayrim that share a common ancestry, and that was the basis of nations. The modern states, which may comprise many many different types of ethnic groups, but they're under one central government is a relatively modern phenomenon. Again, now the question suggests that this is something that we get as we approach Messiah as a sign of um You know, again, it's an interesting question. I I I'm not sure why that would necessarily be a a Messianic phenomenon. The concept of nations phenomenon. The concept of nations aggregating different ethnic groups, because the truth of the matter is in a small measure, you you actually see a little bit of a reversal of the phenomenon. In other words, exactly what happened was that a lot of nations that were artificially cobbled together by different ethnic groups actually fall apart. Czechoslovakia is an example that, you know, goes back to the Czech Republic and and Slovakia. So, the truth is um

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