I Will Await Him

Reviews and Citations

  • One State, Two States: Reviewed

    In 2009, Israeli historian Benny Morris published a book called One State, Two States on the history of proposed solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, attitudes toward them on both sides, and possibilities for the future. He paints both solutions as undesirable: the two state because the borders are unnatural and difficult to draw, the water…

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  • In Shiur on the Three Oaths, Rabbi Breitowitz confuses the sources

    Rabbi Yitzchok Breitowitz, popular speaker at Ohr Somayach in Jerusalem, has given a lecture on Yishuv Eretz Yisroel and the Three Oaths, available at https://outorah.org/p/198379. He is to be commended for telling his audience that the Oaths are a very serious argument against the existence of the State of Israel, one that is not easy…

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  • To Be a Jew Today, by Noah Feldman

    I was pleased to see I Will Await Him cited by Harvard professor Noah Feldman in his recent book To Be a Jew Today (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2024). In the chapter entitled “Israel Without Zionism”, Feldman discusses how it came to be that so many Traditionalist Jews, who opposed or at least did not…

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  • Letter of support from Rabbi Yechezkel Rubin

    Rabbi Yechezkel Rubin, Rav of the Tomashover Beis Medrash of Flatbush, writes in his letter of approbation, printed in the sefer: “The subject of this book is a matter of supreme importance, relevant to emunah and hoping for the geulah. This is especially significant at this time, as the Jewish people sits and awaits moshiach…

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  • Letter of support from Rabbi Mordechai Marcus

    Rabbi Mordechai Marcus zt”l, Rav of Congregation Beth Medrash Govoha of Flatbush, writes in his letter of approbation, printed in the sefer: “My signature testifies that Rabbi Yirmiyahu Cohen, a wise young man whom I have known for many years, came before me. I know him as someone whose Yiras Shomayim precedes his chochma and…

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  • Letter of support from Rabbi Elya Ber Wachtfogel

    Rabbi Elya Ber Wachtfogel, Rosh Yeshiva of South Fallsburg, writes in his letter of approbation, printed in the sefer: “The sefer Achakeh Lo is overflowing with material on a legal subject that is very relevant in our time, the subject of the Three Oaths. I see that the author has covered all the details of…

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  • Review published on The Lehrhaus

    A Controversial Halakhic Case Against the State of Israel By Shmuel Silberman  January 3, 2019 I Will Await Him by Yirmiyahu Cohen (Natruna Publishers, 2018) thoughtfully advocates a position anathema to many Lehrhaus readers: anti-Zionism. After arguing that the establishment of the State of Israel violates Halakhah,[1] Cohen goes on to claim that the State is illegitimate, and religious…

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