Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

Machshava:

Zionism 

Personalities:

Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik 

Collections: R' Berman Religious Zionism

Description

Unlike Rav Kook, Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Reines and Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik did not see the founding of a Jewish state as the realization of a messianic vision per se. However they needed to reckon with the challenges of dealing with a secular movement and developing a religious vision of building a New State. If returning to the land doesn't signify the coming of the messianic age, what does it represent?