What is Zionism?
The name of "Zionism" comes from the hill Zion, the hill on which the Temple of Jerusalem was built.
Supporters of this movement are called "Zionists".
Today there is much confusion among Jews over the meaning of the term Zionism. It means different things to different people.
The reason for this is that historically, Zionism has been a movement dominated by secularist Jews. Herzl and most of his colleagues were assimilated Jews, who did not believe in or practice the Torah. Some Zionists were vehemently anti-religious, and saw the Torah and mitzvos as outdated rituals with no place in their modern state.
Yet the essence of the Zionist idea - that Jews should return to the Holy Land and establish a government - is not inherently secular, and in fact the Zionist movement had some religious members from the very beginning.
Some Jews today use Zionism as a synonym for Israeli secularism, and thus support the State of Israel while claiming to be anti-Zionist. These people's only complaint about the State of Israel is that it is not religious enough. They hope for the day when the state will be dominated by the religious parties.
But this is not the meaning of the term Zionism as used on this site. When we talk about Zionism here, we are refering to the concept that Jews should rise up, emancipate themselves from exile without waiting for the messiah, and establish a Jewish government in the Holy Land. Using Jewish texts, we demonstrate that this concept is against the Torah and has been opposed by rabbis in all generations.
There have been hundreds of rabbis over the past century who spoke out against the Zionist movement. But because of the ambiguity of the term, it is not always possible to prove that a given rabbi meant to oppose the concept of Zionism, rather than just secularism.For this reason, religious Zionists often make the claim that much of the rabbinic opposition to Zionism was only because it was a secular movement.
On the "Rabbinic Quotations" section of this site, we have avoided this confusion by carefully selecting those quotations that are clearly against the concept of Zionism itself. As the reader will see, these quotations alone are enough to prove that almost all of the greatest sages and leaders of the Jewish people opposed the establishment of a Jewish state.
Quotes from the Zionists
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Excellent definition, Keith and very detailed. But my take on the last paragraph is an opposite rendition. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob(Israel) established Mt. Zion where the city of David presently is and where He will return to rule and reign in the Millennial period of 1000 years after the present age has expired! True Christians are also Zionists and will reign with God and His followers! At that time Jews and Christians will be one as outlined in the Book of Ephesians. A joyful, glorious time with no more sin!
Amen James! ...I love it.
Excellent video, for about five minutes, after that Israel becomes "palestine" or a creation of gods of rome, in other words full of BS ...in a way the video shows how libshits** created islime, identical mentality under any label ...but it's interesting how the narrator goes from separating Jews from the pharisees to just calling pharisees and their libshit followers "jews", kinda like calling what's its name, hellary and most of the 2011 congress "Christians".
The disproportionally more Jewish than Christian roots in corrupt places occurs because Jewish tradition emphasizes using intelligence and Christian tradition emphasizes using love ...so the "roots" of Judea are steered to emphasize attaining the fruits of life through money, because that's the "fruit of life" in monetary societies, hence the "evolved or talmudic jews or orthodox christians" become increasingly incompatible with True Jews and True Christians, yet fully "compatible" with mega-church priests, the super rich and career politicians, in other words libtards and/or libshits. True Christians and Jews always end-up being regulated by libshits, or modern day the pharisees, because the latter are always raised into leadership by default of money being accepted for the "fruit of life" by mankind ...take money out of "the fruit of life" equation for sustenance of a society and Christian and Jewish ROOTS complement and propagate each other into One Nation Under God!
**people corrupted by little to no labor through wealth are "talmudic jews as well as the mega-church, mega-book christians"... neither Jew nor Christian, yet falsely labeled as such to the detriment of both!
The "orthodox" always claim to know more, yet all they "know" is how to quote scriptures out of context as if in context, so mainly they are scripture parrots. What's worse most of the orthodox rely mostly on secondary or "viewpoint" books (such as talmuds instead of The Torah), in other words they clone what other orthodox "scribes or prophets" said ...Secular or Traditional have their heart and mind set on just plain "old" living as a community, when necessary with scriptures as everyone's guide, it's a way of life, a culture or Tradition.
Nearly exactly the same goals created this country, independence from tyranny (except The Founders had relatively a much less difficulty than Moses, perhaps someone they learned from) ...so Zion can be thought of as the rebuilding of Israel by extension through The USA .
"I'm going to personally be involved in the law defining the state of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people," Netanyahu reportedly told Vider. "It's a very important law that will influence how Israel will look in the future."
"I want to anchor in this law, that it will be a Basic Law that the state of Israel arose and exists on the basis of the Torah and the Jewish tradition"
"we will define in the law the Gemara as a basis for the Israeli legal system"
Netanyahu is a moral man, I do not think for a minute he would allow the talmud to rule, especially not the babylonian talmud ...the Gemara contains no laws, just interpretations and explanations, therefore open for debate.
Thank you! I had never understood this before you explained it...in such a simple manner.
"Quotations alone are enough to prove that....".?? Sounds like a pile of anti-Jewish (anti-semetic) garbage that comes out of the mouth of Islamist, the far left(Marxist) ,and far right(Socialist). Same stuff Hitler was spouting before he took power and killed 6 million Jews, Throughout history the Jews are blamed for all the problems of the world. Today this evil is raising it's ugly head again .So folks when you hear the catch word Zionist (JEW) be aware of what is coming down the road ,it probably is going to be uglier than hell! An attack on Jews and the nation of Israel is very well coming. Zionist is not a dirty word it means Jewish homeland or Jewish nation. God bless the nation of Israel.......A Christian Zionist,, Jim Little
Eretz Israel through The Jewish People was an example for saving the world from immorality ...so not unlike Yeshua they (true Jews and true Christians) are persecuted repeatedly.
5War, Netanyahu has to play within the system dealt to him, he is not in America, the Israeli Constitution kind of mimics The US Constitution but it's not the same because the foundations of both countries are different. This early in history The People were used to being led, the meaning of We The People did not exist.
Laws depend on who defines them (or WTF defines them, as in the case of the pharisees) ...so this may be the last time in history We The People get a chance to take-up the reigns, permanently (hence Israel by extension).
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