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Zionist Argument: Permission of the Nations
Claim: The oaths do not apply to the State of Israel, since it was founded with the UN’s permission. Facts: 1) One of the oaths is that the Jewish people must not go up to Eretz Yisroel as a wall. There is a disagreement among the commentators as to whether this oath applies to any…
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If masses of Jews in Eretz Yisroel violates the oaths, what about the Jews between the destruction of the Temple and Bar Kochba?
A quick question regarding the hypothesis of your book. How do you understand the time of Bar Kochba,as I’m sure you would be quick to agree, at that time the oaths did apply halachacly speaking, the proof for that is that we see from Chazal that the Jewish people got punished for transgressing the oaths.…
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The Khazar Correspondence and its implications for Jewish statehood
(Based on the English edition of I Will Await Him, p. 466, and the Hebrew Achakeh Lo p. 341.) Q: In the eighth century, the king of the Khazar nation and much of its aristocracy converted to Judaism. Judaism remained the official religion of the nation until it was conquered by the Kievan Rus in…
