For Ha'azinu and Succot
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Study Question
1) The question still exists as to why the Jewish People should have this distinct parental relationship with God.
2) In regard to modern history, we may ask: how would Rav Yaakov understand
such acts as the Balfour Declaration? On the other hand, what of much of the
world’s present attitude towards Israel? Does the kindness towards the Jewish
People that perhaps did exist still exist? Rav Yaakov could contend that
the Messianic redemption is still not completed. There, unfortunately, may still be time to despair (although, I believe, that most would say chas v'shalom to this). It should be noted, as well, that those who maintain that the
redemption will emerge through natural means -- which, they argue, we are witnessing -- also do
not contend that these acts are not possibly the direct acts of God. They point to the fact
that Stalin and the Soviet Union voted for the creation of Israel; does that in
itself not show God’s direct, and miraculous, intervention?
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