Halacha:

Birkat Hamazon 

Machshava:

Religious Zionism,  Yom Ha'atzmaut 

Holidays:

Yom Yerushalayim 

Parsha:

Eikev 

Collections: Rav Shvat on the Torah

Description

Every time we say Birkat HaMazon and Al HaMichya, we appreciate Hashem's giving us the State of Israel, the IDF victories, and the Gathereing of the Exiles. When my relatives in Williamsburg & Meah Shearim deny and don't thank Hashem for Zionism and our modern national State & return to Eretz Yisrael, they are that much less religious, and that much less praising Hashem and recognizing that He , not the UN, runs the world, and that "He is righteous"! This short article brings many psukim which we say all the time in davening which are basically religious-Zionism in a nutshell.