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Prayer for the State of Israel
Artscroll Rabbinical Council of America Version
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Prayer for the State of Israel
Singer’s Prayer Book (O!cial Siddur of the British Commonwealth)
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Prayer for the State of Israel
Composed in 1949 by many halachik luminaries including Rav Yitzchak Isaac Herzog zt”l, Rav
Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt”l, Rav Yechezkal Sarna zt”l, Rav Zalman Sorotzkin zt”l, Rav Tzvi
Pesach Frank zt”l, and others.
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“The nationalist ideology of Rabbi Kook and his followers views the history of Zionism as an
inevitable and decidedly messianic process, leading to the realization of prophetic predictions: ‘the
State of Israel as the fulfillment of the biblical vision of redemption.’ Messianism is no longer to be
seen as the antithesis of concrete reality. It is no longer merely a critique of what is, nor is it
addressed only to the future. Rather, messianic redemption springs from present events; it is
embodied and realized in them. “
-Aviezer Ravitsky
“Zionism (and the State of Israel) is an inevitable and decidedly messianic process”
- Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook
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“Now, in recent years thousands and tens of thousands of our Jewish brethren have flowed into
Eretz Yisrael from all corners of the Diaspora. This is certainly a sign of the beginning of the
redemption... The wars of recent times are also a sign of redemption. there have been constant
conflagrations ever since the outbreak... this coincides with the Kabbalist's description of the time
of redemption and is exactly what has happened today. therefore, this is a great sign that we are
close to redemption.....”
“Israel’s salvation will come little by little; slowly will the horn of redemption flower.”
- R. Kalischer
In the words of a eulogy of R’ Zvi Yehuda Kook delivered by one of his principle disciples, Rabbi
Hayim Druckman… ‘He was one of the few in his generation… to grasp fully the messianic
revelation the State of Israel represents, to see the light of the Messiah shining forth from the
State of Israel….He was the only one who taught us how to embrace wholeheartedly the truth
that this state, with all its problems, is a divine one.’
-Aviezer Ravitsky
“We must not heed them in their call to achieve redemption on our own, for we are not permitted
to hasten the End, even by reciting too many prayers, much less so by corporeal stratagems, that
is, to set out from exile by force.”
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“Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson… granted explicit legitimacy to collective political and
military Jewish organization in the Holy Land, “in matters of defense, vehicles and horses,” and
his followers are deeply involved in many spheres on the state. (Part of this discrepancy was
resolved by maintaining that the state exists “in the time of exile,” thereby preventing a verbal
contradiction with the statements of his predecessors, who opposed going out from the Exile by
“material powers and stratagems.”
-Aviezer Ravitsky
We must not minimize the seriousness of the grave sin of rejoicing, or appearing to rejoice and making a
festival on the terrible Day of Blasphemy, that they call: "Yom Atsmaut" (Israeli Independence Day). The
day that the members of the conspiracy against G-d and His Messiah, established their Kingdom of
Atheism over the Jewish People, by uprooting the Holy Torah and the Faith. At that time, the shedding of
blood of myriad's upon myriad's of Jews began.
This is much worse than accepting idolatry, because they not only accept it, but celebrate and rejoice in the
terrible rebellion against G-d and His Holy Torah. There are many sinners and even deniers of the Faith,
whose hearts trouble them, because they are not serving G-d, but they are unable to stand up against
temptation and against deceitful ideologies that confuse them. However, those who rejoice in this sin, are
guilty of much worse, blasphemy.
-Joel Teitelbaum, the late Satmer Rav
Neturei Karta stresses those portions in rabbinic literature which state that because of their sins,
the Jewish people went into exile from the Land of Israel. Additionally, they maintain the view -
basing it on the Babylonian Talmud - that any form of forceful recapture of the Land of Israel is a
violation of divine will. They believe that the restoration of the Land of Israel to the Jews should
only happen with the coming of the Messiah.
-Aviezer Ravitsky
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