Individual teshuva and national teshuva

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Rav Yehuda Alkalai (1798-1878) distinguished between individual teshuva (repentence), in which one strives to improve oneself in all areas, and national teshuva, in which the nation, as a unit, returns to its land.

Indeed, the latter precedes the former, a process which we have been privileged to witness.

Rav Kook (1865-1935) took this a step further; he did not distinguish between the two…

Rabbi Noam Himelstein studied in Yeshivat Har Etzion and served in the Tanks Corps of the IDF.

He has taught in yeshiva high schools, post-high school women’s seminaries, and headed the Torah MiTzion Kollel in Melbourne, Australia. He currently teaches at Yeshivat Orayta in Jerusalem, and lives in Neve Daniel, Gush Etzion.