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The removal of an older mindset in order to make room for a new one is similar to what we find in the Talmud that when Rebbe Zaira moved from Babylonia to Israel he fasted one hundred times in order to forget the Torah he had learned in exile. He knew there was a new mindset awaiting him in Israel. He didn't have to completely remove himself from a Torah life in order to accomplish this. In this generation also we find many people who have successfully transitioned from an exile mentality to one of living in Israel without needing to remove themselves from Torah completely as part of their transition. They have kept their faith in Hashem and slowly slowly are adapting to the paradigm of Eretz Yisroel. This is one of the causes of all the fights about education that exist today in Israel between different religious factions. These arise from the changed nature of the Jewish soul in Israel, which requires a different form of education than that which was common in exile.

But for others the manner in which the old mindset was removed was through apostasy, as occurred at the time of the Purim story. Just as at that time, it was a prelude to salvation and led to a renewed commitment to Torah, one of people's own volition, so too will occur in our times. There will be a return to Torah based on people's own great desire. The entire nation will return to their Creator and nothing will remain of the present state. This has already been taking place for many years and we are now in the era of a new paradigm, that of the Torah of Eretz Yisroel.