The rabbinic leadership of the early 20th century withheld their support for the Zionist project. They could have introduced Torah values into the construction of the state but they chose not to. Why not? Why did they oppose the rebuilding of the state? Because their own grasp on how Torah values ought to have informed the formation of a State of Israel was itself deficient.
Instead of viewing the building of the state as an opportunity to implement the most basic of the Torah values, they viewed the establishment of a new state as a threat to their own power. That means they misunderstood the nature of the relationship between the Torah teachings and the management of the Jewish polity.
As a result of this rabbinic neglect the secular Jewish leadership had no option other than to adopt a mode of governance from among the contemporary systems of political ideology at the time. In other words, the rabbinic leadership guided the Jewish people's secular leaders toward the rule of foreign systems, to avodah zarah.
Someone needed to speak for the values of YHWH in addressing the Jewish people but the rabbinic regime missed the boat.
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