“… he [Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz] also explained why
the secular Zionists might have been chosen to play
such a fateful role in the history of the Jewish people.
In every Jew, he explained, there is a spark of kedushah (holiness)
– dos pintele Yid – which is his inheritance from the Avos [Patriarchs].
Every Jew is both an individual and as part of the collective body of Israel.
As long as he does not sever his bonds to the nation,
that little spark is not extinguished, no matter how numerous his sins.
Divine Providence might have arranged that the secular Zionists
play a major role in the redemption of Eretz Yisrael precisely
in order to maintain their connection to Klal Yisrael.”
SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz,
the architect of Torah in America (chapter 26, page 335) by Yonoson Rosenblum
for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001, based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965