MembersIsrael, the Land and the Future of Humanity

The modern democratic state is proving to be a challenge for the Jewish nation, a people who have managed to survive and even thrive through totalitarian, tyrannical and communist states.

| Topics: Judaism, Democracy, Jewish Thought
Raising children to aspire to the highest moral and biblical standards is key to our survival, as a democracy or otherwise. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90
Raising children to aspire to the highest moral and biblical standards is key to our survival, as a democracy or otherwise. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90

Israel is struggling to figure out how its Jewish heritage and biblical morality can be incorporated in the national life of a democratic state, which, if successful, could prove to be a model for the rest of the world.

Here’s what we have learned so far.

It is wrong to think of Israel as a state in the modern sense of the word. Israel is “Am Yisrael,” the nation or people of Israel joined by our common spiritual history recorded in the Bible. The Jewish nation is to the state what the soul is to the body.

Am Yisrael is built upon our rich legacy of communal memory. It is our biblical history as a people, the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel), that has created a powerful bond, often subconscious, that makes us want to live together and find a way to make our shared heritage of spiritual and experiential wisdom effective in our modern and democratic state.

The key to the ongoing survival of our biblical heritage in the Land is in...

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2 responses to “Israel, the Land and the Future of Humanity”

  1. Mark Watkins says:
    May 17, 2023 at 7:42 pm

    Shalom David,

    Excellent piece, in the interim it will be fractious, long term it will be yafeh lanetzach…. Toda Chaver…

  2. Lindsay Johnston says:
    May 18, 2023 at 1:12 am

    You have summed up a major problem facing not only Israel but the whole western world as well. Israel can be a light to the nations as prophesied in Isaiah 60:1-3 and the best hope for a troubled world. But she must retain her messianic hope. The west has lost its biblical roots and is in serious decline. The Church as the defender of western values needs to rediscover her Jewish roots and Messiah.

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