Hashem entered into people's hearts to awaken within them the idea to seek out a land and a government. The people followed their dreams without realizing that it was His will, and without an appreciation of the true meaning of the great events that they were precipitating.
People need to offer a rationale for their actions. We are thinking beings, and don't act without reason. When Hashem awakened within people the desire to return to the land, thinking people had to offer reasons for this desire and they built a political philosophy to explain their actions. Lacking an appreciation of the true reasons they grasped weak reasons which only reflected the external realities of the return. This is the basis of secular Zionism that offered a protective homeland as a reason for building the State of Israel.
Even though there is truth to this, it only reflects the external distinction between Exile and Redemption, and completely misses the spiritual nature of redemption, and the magnitude of spirituality found in the Land of Israel as we renew the days of old when we drew from the wellsprings of prophecy. The secularists saw the dream only as it relates to the body, but they were blind to the soul.
People build great edifices based on ideas that they do not fully comprehend. Even though there is truth to the desire to be strong, to not be dependent on other nationalities, these ideas are missing the core truth. This results in great difficulties for the nation because the people are not truly being directed towards their destiny. Once the task was complete and there was a return to a rebuilt land they lost their way, they had no vision. They can't find the path to solve the difficult challenges of the times.
The path to redemption was begun by childlike people who lacked understanding. They were unaware of the fact that they were being directed by Hashem whose ways are hidden from Man. It will not rest until the light is fully revealed and the blind eyes are opened to see the good of Hashem and say, "This is the God for whom I hoped, and he has saved us."
Now is the time for the opening of the eyes, to the awakening, to a stirring nation which is acquiring the Daat, the mindset of redemption. This is accompanied by a greater awareness of the deeper aspects of Torah which are appropriate only in Israel, similar to prophecy only being possible in the land.
People need to offer a rationale for their actions. We are thinking beings, and don't act without reason. When Hashem awakened within people the desire to return to the land, thinking people had to offer reasons for this desire and they built a political philosophy to explain their actions. Lacking an appreciation of the true reasons they grasped weak reasons which only reflected the external realities of the return. This is the basis of secular Zionism that offered a protective homeland as a reason for building the State of Israel.
Even though there is truth to this, it only reflects the external distinction between Exile and Redemption, and completely misses the spiritual nature of redemption, and the magnitude of spirituality found in the Land of Israel as we renew the days of old when we drew from the wellsprings of prophecy. The secularists saw the dream only as it relates to the body, but they were blind to the soul.
People build great edifices based on ideas that they do not fully comprehend. Even though there is truth to the desire to be strong, to not be dependent on other nationalities, these ideas are missing the core truth. This results in great difficulties for the nation because the people are not truly being directed towards their destiny. Once the task was complete and there was a return to a rebuilt land they lost their way, they had no vision. They can't find the path to solve the difficult challenges of the times.
The path to redemption was begun by childlike people who lacked understanding. They were unaware of the fact that they were being directed by Hashem whose ways are hidden from Man. It will not rest until the light is fully revealed and the blind eyes are opened to see the good of Hashem and say, "This is the God for whom I hoped, and he has saved us."
Now is the time for the opening of the eyes, to the awakening, to a stirring nation which is acquiring the Daat, the mindset of redemption. This is accompanied by a greater awareness of the deeper aspects of Torah which are appropriate only in Israel, similar to prophecy only being possible in the land.
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