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Honestly, i wish. Ive been struggling to find a safe place to reconnect with that heritage myself. A lot of the standard temples are pretty heavy on zionism. Thats why i was so happy to find out about Torah Jews. I dont know of a Torah specific temple near me though. The most luck ive had is at Unitarian Universalist churches and the internet but that is not the same as having local community of your people

And i appreciate that. Then, you should know better than most that lumping jews together with zionists is a dangerous game. I was raised pretty secular so i am only learning the deeper parts of things the last few years. But from what i understand, that is why there is such a massive riff in the orthodox communities. Some jews take those passages literally and forsake the rules ahead of them. Some, like torah jews and certain sects of hassidics, look a it more metaphorically and the rules of YHWH take precedence

Maybe but thats kind of what they already did. Modern day zionism was invented to push the jewish people out of europe and destabilize the middle east. That has literally always been its utility

I mean, yeah. Thats my understanding anyways. Its considered more metaphorical than literal.

https://torahjews.org/our-beliefs

Im jewish. Im fully aware of the pervervions the Zionists have projected onto the Torah. However, there is a reason that a large portion of the Hassidic community is anti-zionist. The Torah explicitly states that if we have to break any of the rules of Torah to establish Israel, it will never last because it isnt true. That is why they are trying to cause enough chaos for the Messiah to come. And that is why they have been able to get western evangelical christians on board.

The perversion of religion maybe. None of the abrahamic texts justify this insanity.

It is not Jews. Massive amounts of us are strongly against the actions of Israel. Some, like myself, are opposed to the modern state of Israel as well. We are cursed to be a people among nations until our Messiah leads us home and the creation of a new Israel should follow the Torah. Idk about you, but Bibi and Hertzl are no messiahs of mine.

IMO, if the jewish people there want to stay in the region, they should be given palestinian citizenship [and live alongside their cousins]; instead of trying to colonize and occupy indigenous peoples. Idk if you or any of the zionists are even aware of it, but palestinians are semetic people too.