Reply To: Could Chanukah happen again

Comlink, don’t use the Z-word as pejorative. Hkb”h is also zionist a bissle, and while there is not clearly an outright mitzvas asei, there are more than enough suggestions that even post churban, “yeshivas e’y shkukla kneged kol hamitzvos.” And that often requires a Jewish government of whatever character. The Hashmonic dynasty ended in quiet an ugly way, but the chazal that were not murderd by them did not vote for golus or for Roman domination.