Zionism or Religion - Which One Goes First? - Ask the Rabbi Live with Rabbi Mintz

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hi robin hi i'm jessica moshe's daughter i haven't seen you since i was a child good to see you again um so my question is related to um just kind of our identity as a whole and maintaining the lineage of our nation and our people all together and i feel like it can be separated in two prospects as far as religion as well as identity what do you think is more important in employing as far as maintaining importance what do you think is more importance what do you think is more important in order to maintain our lineage yes do you think it's zionism our love for the land our dedication to our identity or do you think it's religion and spirituality and gemara and all those things well torah they put it that way is it zionism or is it torah that's religion that's the mitzvous that's what it is but which one do you think is more important and maintain well it's the question is that it speaks the answer for itself is that it speaks the answer for itself because let's take a look at jewish history we've been out of the land of israel for almost 2000 years until uh 1948 which a land of israel was established but 2 000 years without zionism without torah i mean without israel we had torah that's what we had with us that's what stood by that's kept us going there's no other nation in the world who was chased out of their land and stayed as nation they intermarried

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1. 0:00hi robin hi i'm jessica moshe's daughter i haven't seen you since i was a child…
2. 0:31importance what do you think is more important in order to maintain our lineage yes do…
3. 1:02is that it speaks the answer for itself because let's take a look at jewish history…
4. 1:34and stayed as nation they intermarried and they inter mingled with the with the country that…
5. 2:05jewish study torah of course they're always talking about we want to go back to our…
6. 3:07became a nation in egypt not in israel the jewish people multiplied they went down to…
7. 3:38it's a good question i'm glad you brought it up it's very important because people think…
8. 4:08everything that kind of comes together and creates our history i think is what well again…
9. 4:38children what do we need this for we would rather be uh nations of the world…
10. 5:08proud of but today the two jews they do they don't have torah they they don't…

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