RE204 Lecture Notes - Zvi Hirsch Kalischer, Abraham Isaac Kook, Religious Zionism
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Conceptual hub, judaism is free to be portable: israel, jerusalem, zion. Memory of the time when israel was whole, at it"s pinnacle, when israel was and autonomous under. Israel will be redeemed by a king appointed by god. Longing; psalm 137: longing to return to zion. Shared history and origins, study of shared origins replaces legal practice/practice of the law in many understandings of peoplehood. Not necessarily all jews practiced the same law, but rather have the same history. Where one member cannot know every other member. Not centered in borders, but in imagination. Centrality of the jewish origin in israel. Memory, faith and religion: diaspora (galut); redemption (geulah) All jews outside of israel are in exile, and the expectation of redemption is what they look forward to. That the divine will bring the messiah. Small groups returned to israel, but no political return. Goal was to return jews to israel. Both threatened to destroy and/or end jewish community.
