To rectify the blemish caused by galut, the Diaspora Jew has to stop being in exile and join the ingathered.
Published: October 2nd, 2012
David Ben-Gurion publicly pronounces the Declaration of the State of Israel,
May 14 1948, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Photo Credit: Rudi Weissenstein
Rabbi Kook teaches that even in the return of the non- religious
Zionists to Israel there is a profound holy core. The inner source of
their desire to return is the Divine Ideal itself – the return to the
Jews to the Land of Israel, as the Torah and the Prophets of Israel both
promise. With time, the holy spark in the Zionist movement will surely
be ignited into a towering flame. This great transformation may take one
hundred years or more. We need to remember that after nearly
two-thousand years in exile, a few generations is like the blink of an
eye.
