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Kol Dodi Dofek
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The Righteous SufferJobMissing the Appointed HourSix KnocksThe Obligation of Torah Judaism to the Land of IsraelThe Covenants of Sinai and EgyptThe Covenant of DestinyEncampment and CongregationConversion by Circumcision and ImmersionMournful Thoughts of ConfessionThe Vision of the Religious Zionist Movement; Loneliness and SeparatenessThe Author's Notes

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Author: Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Composed:  1956 CE
Given first as an address at Yeshiva University in NY on the occasion of Israel’s Independence Day (Yom HaAtzmaut 1956), Kol Dodi Dofek discusses God and the Holocaust, the importance of the modern State of Israel and the role of Zionism in American Orthodoxy. Kol Dodi Dofek has become a classic text of religious Zionist philosophy.

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