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August 10, 2012 3:59 pm at 3:59 pm #893699
Avi K
Participant

Curiosity,

1. It is an obligation to establish a state as stated explicitly by Ramban in his Sefer HaMitzvot.

2. Rav Soloveichik says that its establishment SAVED the Jewish people in the national depression that followed the Holocaust (see Kol Dodi Dofek).