QUESTION:
Is the state of Israel a chilul Hashem or a kiddush Hashem?
ANSWER:
It nurses its vitality from the chalal ha-panuy, the “void that is emptied” [the space devoid of G-d’s infinite light], which contains in it the rishimo, the “imprint” that remained from the infinite light. That is why the Chofetz Chaim that he we been zocheh instead of the establishment of the state, Mashiach would have come and we would have returned to the chalal ha-panuy in a repaired way, a new world, where we would have been “revived from the dead”, due to the rishimo (imprint left from G-d’s infinite light). We weren’t zocheh, and instead we were left with just the chalal ha-panuy, an abrogation of Hashem’s infinite light, with only a few “sparks” from the rishimo that remain which keeps the empty void (the existence of the state) in existence.
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