How To Be A Zionist

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

tonight's talk is called how to be a zionist um i should tell you what this is not about i want to try and explore maybe a deeper understanding of what the word sion sion si o ni the word zionist comes from the word zion and zion is from the hebrew sion and this i want to explain the meaning of this word and really how it works out to be it works out to be quite the opposite of what we would consider to be a conventional understanding of what a zionist is so as we know tonight is called yamazicaron and tomorrow night will be yom hatsumut independence day so these are days which are let's say the differences in israeli society become very apparent um zikaron is a memorial memorial day for the fallen the fallen of of the of the those who fell in the wars of the jewish people and uh there's the omaha which took place i think about a week ago and basically the omaha is a day which in classical torah thought the reason why there was let's say apprehension about making a separate day and a disagreement over whether there should be a separate day should be a separate day is that the omaha seeks really sets the the holocaust apart now arguably the holocaust the the destruction of european jewry could be considered to be one of the worst tragedies in the history of the jewish people but from our point of view from the classical orthodox torah point of view all of the tragedies that happen to the jewish people are connected one to the other the inquisition

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