Jerusalem\u2019s First Temple<\/a> at the hands of the Babylonians, the Shivat Tzion movement emerged so that we could return to Zion and build the Second Temple. After the destruction of the Second Temple at the hands of the Romans, the Mishna and Yavneh emerged \u2013 the great pillars of Torah leadership and learning. The synagogue, too, took shape \u2013 a place of prayer, worship, and community-building. All these things would sustain us during our long exile.<\/p>\nAfter the terrifying Crusades and the Inquisition came the sages of Safed, the rekindling of Jewish hearts through Jewish mysticism of the Arizal, and the Shulchan Aruch, the great work of Jewish law.<\/p>\n
After the horrific Chmielnicki massacres in Eastern Europe, the hassidic movement arose to rekindle the Jewish soul. After the terrible pogroms of the late 19th century, the Zionist movement was formed and made clear the Jewish yearning for return and redemption. After the unspeakable Holocaust, the State of Israel was born, and with it, the return to Jewish national and collective life after 2,000 years.<\/p>\n
After the tragic and sudden Yom Kippur War, Israel became a regional superpower and trusted ally of the United States.<\/p>\n
The pattern is clear. After immense pain and suffering, a new era is beginning to take shape. While Jewish survival for the benefit of the world has been foretold, the role that each and every one of us chooses to play is our decision. We can either be passive bystanders or proactive protagonists working together to turn the darkness into light, the disarray into unity, and the challenges into opportunities.<\/p>\n
As attacks on Zionism and Israel continue to this day, we, together, have our greatest opportunity to forge a better and brighter future.<\/p>\n
And, together, we will prevail.\u25a0<\/p>\n
Rabbi Doron Perez is executive chair of World Mizrachi and president of the World Zionist Organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This painful challenge has also presented our greatest opportunity. According to our sages, crises pave the way to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41283,42,13810,703,43,545,145539,58,40,38,41,39,22869],"class_list":["post-283619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-emotional-resilience","tag-headlines","tag-jerusalem-report","tag-light","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-rabbi-doron-perez","tag-the-october-7-massacre","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}