Five hundred years ago, a political rebirth of Israel in the Promised Land was spiritually ripe, but in practice, a return failed at that time. What happened much later, namely 76 years ago, was like a reversal: Israel’s rebirth in the biblical homeland was practically successful, but not spiritually.
In the 20th century, after the Balfour Declaration and the endorsement of the return of the Jewish people to the Promised Land by the League of Nations, Jewish settlement in the land gradually increased. The Holocaust, which claimed the lives of six million Jews, convinced the majority of the United Nations member states not to stand in the way of the establishment of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel.
Expulsion of the Jews in the Middle Ages
In 1492, the Jewish people experienced a crisis that had a lasting impact on Jewish history. Jews had lived in Spain for over a thousand years. Spain’s was the leading Jewish community in the world. During this so-called “Golden Age,” Jews were renowned in philosophy, mysticism, science, and poetry....
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