Shabtai Ben Dov
Sixty years ago Ben Dov saw that the State of Israel was in crisis and outlined a roadmap of change. He knew that the dominant ideologies would be incapable of producing the leaders capable of guiding us out of the morass. A true miracle, he writes, is that the geulah occurred despite the 1600-year-long irrational passivity of religious Jews which prevented them from doing anything to actualize it. The twisted aim of religious practice had become to perpetuate Judaism in exile at the expense of achieving the true objectives of the Torah. The achievement of the Zionist movement was to return the Jewish nation to its Land, allowing us to take stock, consider what needs to be done, and move forward.