Reply To: Zionism, Why the Big Debate?

Patur, we have the promise of the Geula and that it will come in stages (Yerushalmi Berachot 1:1). Moreover, the Gra sent his talmidim to EY to pave the way. According to “Kol HaTor” of Rabbi Hillel Rivlin he held that Moshiach ben Yosef’s job is kibbutz galuyot and building the material side of EY and that in the time just before Mashiach the sin of the spies would attach itself to many Tora Jews. Rav Teichtal in “Em HaBanim Semeicha” seconds him. Those who cannot see the miracles of Israel’s birth and progression are truly blind.