Pemikiran Yahudi Pengkhotbah 1:15: Kol Dodi Dofek

Still, the error of the secular Zionists is graver than just not understanding the true meaning of the ‎Covenant of Egypt, the Covenant of a Nation-Camp realized through shared fate and forced ‎isolation. They also sin against the Covenant of Sinai, the covenant of a sacred community and ‎people that finds expression in the shared destiny of a sanctified life. Only religious Zionism with its ‎traditional and authentic perception has the power to “repair the perverted” (Ecclesiastes 1:15).If ‎you were to ask me how the role of the State of Israel can best be described, I would answer that ‎its mission is not to nullify the special loneliness of the community of Israel or to destroy the unity ‎of its fate — in this it will not succeed — but to raise the people of the encampment to the level of ‎a sacred community nation and to turn Shared Fate into Shared Destiny. We must ‎remember, as we have already emphasized, that fate is expressed, in essence, in the ‎experience of life under duress — in an inability to run away from Judaism, in being forced to ‎suffer as a Jew. This, though, is not the ideal of the Torah or of our Weltanschauung. Our ‎solidarity with the community of Israel, according to an authentic Jewish outlook, must not come ‎from the conclusion of the Covenant of Fate—that of the Encampment-Nation possessed of a ‎compelled existence to which we are subjugated by outside forces — but by the conclusion of a ‎Covenant with a sacred community-nation of Shared Destiny. Man does not find the ‎experience of fate satisfying. On the contrary, it causes him pain. The feeling of isolation is very ‎destructive. It has the power to crush man’s body and spirit, silence his spiritual powers, and stop ‎up the wellsprings of his inner creativity. The feeling of isolation, in particular, troubles man ‎because it is devoid of reason and direction. The isolated person wonders, for whom and for what? ‎Isolation, which cleaves to man like a shadow, shakes his awareness and ability. An existence of ‎destiny, which is based on the Covenant of Sinai, is different. This concept turns the notion of ‎‎“nation” (a concept that denotes an ordained existential necessity, participation in blind pain, and a ‎feeling of isolation devoid of meaning) into a “sacred people” and to the elevated station of a ‎moral, religious community. Man draws from it strength and sustenance, creative power and a ‎renewed joy in an existence that is free and rejuvenated.‎