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TORAT MIZRACHI




                                                                                      Rabbi Doron Perez









                                 Herzl, Hebrew



                                and Holy Cows




               10 REMARKABLE PROPHECIES COMING TRUE IN ISRAEL TODAY




             he tiny State of Israel has become   210 years of slavery, whereas the return   3. Land Blossomed Only Once
             world-famous for its extraordi-  to modern Israel happened after almost   Its Children Returned
      Tnary achievements in so many         2,000 years. Secondly, all the Israel-            ּונ ֵּ ת ִּ ת ם ֶ כ ְּ פְנ ַ ע ל ֵ א ָ רׂ ְ שִי י ֵ ר ָ ה ם ֶּ ת ַ א ְ ו
       fields. Jewish immigrants from all over   ites came out of one country whereas          ל ֵ א ָ רׂ ְ שִי י ִּ מ ַ ע ְ ל ּואׂ ְ ש ִּ ת ם ֶ כְי ְ ר ֶ פּו
       the world returned to their Home-    in  the  modern  era  Jews  came  from
       land, rebuilt its ruins, revived its barren   over 100 countries. Thirdly, in Egypt   “But you, O mountains of Israel,
                                                                                 sprout your branches and give forth your
       wilderness and revitalized its ancient   all Jews lived in one confined, culturally
       language, creating an economic, mili-  segregated ghetto in Goshen, speaking   fruits for My people Israel” (Yechezkel
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       tary, social, cultural and technological   only Hebrew, whereas Israel has seen   36:8).
       power of global renown. Amazingly,   the return of Jews from every cul-   As the Jewish people returned to the
       these achievements were all clearly   tural, political and ideological back-  Land, the Land responded in return.
       foretold by our Prophets.            ground, speaking over 80 different   The desert has become an oasis and
       Let us look briefly at the fulfillment of   languages somehow forged into one   the desolation a blessing. Israel quickly
       just 10 of those prophecies:         functional society.                  started developing innovative agricul-
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                                                                                 tural expertise and water conservation
       1. The Ingathering of the Exiles     2. The Spiritual Alchemy             technologies. The returning Jews have
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                       ר ֶ ׁש ֲ א םי ִּ מ ַ ע ָ ה ל ָּ כ ִ מ ך ְ צ ֶּ ב ִ ק ְ ו  between a Land and a People  now planted over 250 million trees
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                        ה ָּ מ ָ ׁש ךי ֶ קלֹ־ ֱ א 'ה ך ְ צי ִ פ ֱ ה  ם ֶ כי ֵ בְיֹא  ָ הי ֶ ל ָ ע ּומ ְ מ ׁ ָ ש ְ ו ץ ֶ ר ָ א ָ ה ת ֶ א יִנ ֲ א י ִ ת ּ ֹמ ׁ ִ ש ֲ ה ַ ו  and Israel is the only nation on earth
       “...and He will gather you in from all the   “I will make the Land desolate, and   that entered the 21st century with more
       nations to which He the L-rd (your G-d)   your adversaries will be desolate on it…”   trees than a century earlier. It boasts
       has scattered you (there)…” (Devarim   (Vayikra 26:32)                    more than 300 wineries and its wine,
       30:3)                                                                     fruits and other products are exported
                                            Following the Roman conquest in 70CE,   all over the world.
       Perhaps the greatest miracle of all!
                                            the Land of Israel was conquered by 14
       In 1840, there were 6,000 Jews living in   different empires over 1,900 years. As   4. Renewal of the
       the Land of Israel. By 1917, that number   G-d had foretold, the Land remained   Hebrew Language
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       grew to 60,000. When the State was   barren  to  its  conquerors  despite           ה ָ רּור ְ ב ה ָ פׂ ָ ש םי ִּ מ ַ ע ל ֶ א ך ּ ֹפ ְ ה ֶ א ז ָ א י ִּ כ
       declared in 1948, there were 600,000.   repeated attempts to make it flourish –   “For then I will change the nations [to
       And today there are over 6.7 million                                      speak] one clear language…” (Zephania
       Jews living in Israel! The Jewish pop-  as if the Land itself was pledging fidelity   3:9) 4
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       ulation in the Land of Israel climbed   to her children, awaiting their return.
       from being of 1% of world Jewry to 6%   In 1867, Mark Twain famously      When the first pioneers returned to
       in 1948, to almost half of all Jews in the   described the land he saw as ‘a desola-  Israel, Hebrew was not a spoken lan-
       world today.                         tion… repulsive and dreary...with hardly   guage. No Jewish community and not
       The Ingathering of the Exiles is perhaps   a tree or shrub anywhere… a land cov-  one Jewish family spoke to their chil-
       a greater miracle than the Exodus from   ered in sackcloth and ashes.”    dren in Hebrew. Hebrew was a language
       Egypt! Firstly, the Exodus came after   Until of course, the return of the Jews.   of prayer, Torah and scholarship. Herzl,
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