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Zionism and Judaism |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / A RECURRENT NOTE IN JEWISH LITERATURE |
| Author: Jacob Neusner |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 3,524 Words, 21,279 Characters |
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Zionists maintain that Zionism is the same as Judaism or is part of Judaism. What they mean is that the conception that the Jews form a people, one people, and that they have the right and duty to build a Jewish state in a particular place, which they call "the land of Israel" (a.k.a. "Palestine"), is intrinsic to the religion, Judaism. And, as a matter of fact, Zionists are right. Zionism in its critical propositions stands squarely in the center of normative Judaism. The real question is, why is that the fact? The answer derives from the character of the first Judaic system, which is the one presented by the Pentateuch, produced around 450 B.C.E.
As a matter of fact, Zionism forms a critical component of the first Judaism, as it was set forth in the Pentateuch. For the very structu...
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... discrepancy present in the Torah's own system. The Torah of Moses therefore did more than recapitulate resentment. In each succeeding age, the Torah generated the alienation that powered the system. And Zionism, in our own time, reframed that eternal resentment, and, in a time of crisis, brought it to resolution. That is why, in historical context, Zionism is Judaism, and Judaism is Zionism.
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