Zionism and the Shema

Zionism is heresy. G-d sent us to our room for misbehavior and we returned to the dining room without permission. Zionism is a violation of the Shema, which we say four times a day, every day, and at the end of Neilah on Yom Kippur. If you sin on the land you will be expelled. It's in clear language. You can't return while still sinning, and who were bigger sinners than the people who set up the state? They were atheists. And the country's leaders are still anti-religious. 

So-called Religious Zionists have all their little mind manipulations to justify themselves. Gradual redemption. A wink from up above. The oaths against taking the land by force (which they did) are Aggadata, as if that makes them non-binding.

Regardless of the oaths, Zionism violates the Shema. 

And what is the result, a million Jews left the Torah when they came to Israel. Millions of others build their identities around being secular Israelis. 25,000 killed via war and terrorism. 20,000 permanently disabled soldiers from the assault on Gaza alone, and on top of that there's the biggest chillul Hashem in the history of the world with this crushing of Gaza.

Zionists don't care. Originally, they cared only about the land. But today they have very little to do with it. So now they only care about their completely dysfunctional state. 

Rav Hirsch:

It was not the land that Moses had been commanded to proclaim to his people at the outset of his mission as מורשה, as the inheritance they were to preserve (Ex. 6,8). The Law, to be translated into full reality upon that soil, was to be the true מורשה, the one true, everlasting inheritance, the one true center around which the nation and its leaders were to gather as one united community. Herein lay the goal and the destiny, the character and the significance of the people.

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch "The Kehillah," Collected Writings, Vol. VI, p. 62


The land of the Divine Torah is there for the people who live in it. Its most valuable product, the purpose and goal of the whole of God's Blessing directed to it, is every human life nourished by it, through its means able to dedicate itself to making God's Torah into a realisation. The land is only given on the condition of every human life respected as being unassailably sacred to the Torah. One drop of innocent blood shed and no notice taken of it drops a stitch in the bond which connects the land with the nation and both with God. (see verses 33 and 34). This holding human life to be so sacred is to be made evident immediately on taking possession of the land in the division of it by instituting the arrangement which the Torah had already referred to in the fundamental laws of Torah social life. (Ex. XXI, 13).

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on Bamidbar 35:10