On Israel Independence Day 1997 Rav Shagar addressed the students in his yeshiva Siah Yitzhak in Efrat on the West Bank. His sermon was published as ““Land and Exile: The Religious Community and the Pursuit of Peace.” Below is my analysis of this sermon and reading it in a post-October The post Is Religious Zionism Obsolete?: Thoughts on Israel Independence Day based on Rav Shagar’s Sermon “Land and Exile: The Religious Community and the Pursuit of Peace” (1997) appeared first on ...