Kol Dodi Dofek

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The Righteous Suffer Job Missing the Appointed Hour Six Knocks The Obligation of Torah Judaism to the Land of Israel The Covenants of Sinai and Egypt The Covenant of Destiny Encampment and Congregation Conversion by Circumcision and Immersion Mournful Thoughts of Confession The Vision of the Religious Zionist Movement; Loneliness and Separateness The 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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