Reply To: Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and the modern State of Israel

Always_Ask_Questions said this in
the YWN Coffee Room on 2025 March 25,
in a discussion titled “Three Oaths essay
from Rabbi Avraham Rivlin of Kerem B’Yavneh”:

Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky writes in his
Emes Le-Ya’akov Al Ha-Torah (Exodus 12:2 n. 17):

It is incumbent on us to understand that the establishment of
the state of Israel in our day, after the great destruction and
despair that overtook the remnant, and given the desperate
and destroyed status of Russian Jewry, God caused the
establishment of the state of Israel in order to strengthen
the connection to Judaism and to sustain
the link between the Jews in exile and the Jewish nation.

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Always_Ask_Questions said this in
the YWN Coffee Room on 2025 March 25,
in a discussion titled “Three Oaths essay
from Rabbi Avraham Rivlin of Kerem B’Yavneh”:

Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler has two relevant letters,
from 1948 [CE] and 1949 [CE], that were published
in Mikhtav Me-Eliyahu, volume 3 pages 349 to 353.

He writes that he is hesitant to call the establishment of
the state of Israel and the ensuing military victory the
beginning of the Redemption, but he considers it a possibility
(i.e. a Hopeful Zionist position).

He also has harsh words for anyone who refuses
to see God’s miraculous intervention in this,
considering them heretics who reject Divine Providence.