Beliefs & Practices

Rabbis Kook and Soloveitchik offered differing views on what the modern state means theologically.

Yeshayahu Leibowitz believed traditional Judaism has no precedent for a modern Jewish state like Israel.

A Reform declaration of Zionistic belief

A poem by Judah Halevi.

Early rabbinic literature does not devote much attention to the uniqueness of the Land of Israel.

In "escstatic" mysticism, the Land of Israel is a metaphor for the human body.

Medieval kabbalah offers various approaches to the Land of Israel.

With God's promise of the Land to the Israelites came responsibilities and consequences.

In viewing Judaism as a religion and not a nation, Reform Judaism saw the early Zionist movement as a threat.

In the book of Genesis, the patriarchs gained possession but not control of the Land of Israel.

In 13th-century mysticism, two streams of thought emerged regarding the Land of Israel.

Rambam believed the Land of Israel does not have objective importance.