Defining Zionism (Haftorah Shoftim)

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

what is the definition of zionism what does it mean to be a zionist in this week's halftorah it is very explicit what the definition of a zionist is and we will get to that in a few short moments but to begin with the opening verse which is who who god says i i will be the one who comforts you as the mattress tells us that there were seven have torahs of consolation after tish above after the destruction of the holy temple for seven shabasim we read seven different haf torahs dealing with god consoling the jewish people in the first half torah god sends the prophets to console us prophets to console us the jews protest in the second half torah stating we don't want the delegation of prophets we want god himself in the third of torah the prophets convey this message to god in the fourth of torah which is hour of torah god himself comes to consol the jewish people and he says it is i it is i who will bring you comfort it's interesting to know that anurchi is the first word of the ten commandments the first word of the ten commandments therefore this is a double consolation twice the ten commandments implying a greater revelation and a greater comfort than the revelation of god on sinai and after this introduction goes on god goes on to say who are you afraid of a mortal a human being who will die as it says over here in verse number 13 12 and 13 who are you afraid of

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