Reply To: Is Zionism the Yetzer Hora?

Froggie, there is a discussion in the Rishonim as to whether Hallel on a day of salvation is a Torah obligation or a rabbinic obligation. In any case, we have an obligation to make a festival just as Purim and Chanuka are man-made festivals. In fact, it was quite common for communities and even families to make their own festivals (see “A PURIM IN EVERY GENERATION” by Rabbi Shlomo Jakobovits, which can be read on-line).