Israeli Declaration of Independence
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Sep 10, 2026
Yaakov ShapiroGUEST
But in other languages, la patria in French, in Italian, in Russian, Mother Russia, things like that, motherland, fatherland, it's the land that birthed the people.
Yaakov ShapiroGUEST
Israel's Declaration of Independence says that the Jewish people, all the way at the beginning, were born in this land.
Yaakov ShapiroGUEST
Wrong.
Yaakov ShapiroGUEST
Uh, Jews were born at Mount Sinai.
Noach LawrenceHOST
So we celebrate the independence of Israel, the independence of a Jewish country for the first time in nearly two millennia.
Noach LawrenceHOST
We also celebrate the Israeli Declaration of Independence, signed that day.
Noach LawrenceHOST
And the Israeli Declaration of Independence has a twin set of values, I would say.
Noach LawrenceHOST
One category would be Eretz Yisrael, the land of Israel, Aliyah Yehudit, Jewish Aliyah, Jewish immigration, Kibbutz Galuyot, the ingathering of the exiles, the Jewish people having a country of our own where we can be responsible for our own fate, where any Jew can have a safe haven, where we can affirm the mission of never again, where we can live out an independent cultural life like all nations, like Ireland, free of British occupation, like South Korea, like any nation, right? But then here's the second category.
Noach LawrenceHOST
the values of liberty, of justice, and of peace, according to the prophets of Israel.
Noach LawrenceHOST
So the Israeli Declaration of Independence is saying, we inherit both of these.
Noach LawrenceHOST
Neither one would be enough without the other.
Noach LawrenceHOST
It's not dissimilar from the classic teaching of Hillel, if I'm not for myself, I would imagine a number of folks know it, if I'm not for myself, Who will be for me? But if I'm not for others, what am I? And it's either one by itself would be simplistic and insufficient or even cliche.
Noach LawrenceHOST
acknowledging that Israel faced on October 7th the most devastating assault on our people since the Holocaust, and also acknowledging that we can't have the convenience of saying history ends on October 8th and we don't have to worry about the rest of what happened after that.
Noach LawrenceHOST
But asking ourselves, When we think about Israel's own highest values, as articulated in the Israeli Declaration of Independence, as we've discussed several times here, freedom, justice, and peace.
Noach LawrenceHOST
Freedom, justice, and peace.
Noach LawrenceHOST
Where do we see Israel's own government not fulfilling those values today? And so we find in these past several parashiot in this summer, the guide we need, the compass that we so sorely need so that we're not lost in this very uncertain landscape.
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Noach LawrenceHOST
And if you look with me at this next source here from Bereshit, from Genesis, This was already generations old, most likely, for Isaiah.
Noach LawrenceHOST
We think of all of it as ancient and biblical.
Noach LawrenceHOST
But for him, this would have been like the Israeli Declaration of Independence, a classic source, generations old, that he could point to as a yardstick to measure his era's status quo.
Noach LawrenceHOST
And God says about Abraham in Bereshit, in Genesis, for I have known him that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Eternal One, to do righteousness and justice.
Noach LawrenceHOST
And we thank Deb Allmyer and Robin Skia-Boss, our Climate Action Team heads, but that's not even the one we're gonna talk about tonight.
Noach LawrenceHOST
Since the war in Iran began, when we first addressed it, among the other crises we've contended with have included the attack on the synagogue in Michigan, looking at what Israeli Independence Day and the Israeli Declaration of Independence have to say about the current challenging moment in Israel, just as the Fourth of July will do for us as Americans in terms of where we are and where we want to be.
Noach LawrenceHOST
We've had, of course, the horrible attack on the mosque in San Diego and our lieutenant governor's recent disturbing comments, such as, I hate Islam, which we've addressed together here.
Noach LawrenceHOST
We've had the ongoing crisis over immigration in America, which we addressed in the lead-up to Shavuot through the lens of the book of Ruth, the immigrant from Moab, modern-day Jordan, who becomes the ancestor of King David through her heroism, regardless of the color of her skin because of the content of her character in Dr. King's terms.