©2024 by Shlomo-PoznerThe Jews were for 2000 years as a nation without land. They were not allowed to own land in Europe, what held the Jews and Judaism together was the religion. said Rabbi Saadia Gaon (882-942 AC), in his work "Emunot V'Deot" (Be- liefs and Opinions, 3:7). He asserts that "Our nationhood is established only through our Torah." The zionists in the 20th century es- tablished organizations to teach Jews how to be farmers of the land. Today when the Jews do own land, do they need religion to con- tinue consider themselves a na- tion?
I photographed my ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionist brother who observes the Torah and mitzvot working in the soil at my mothers house in Jerusalem.