Malchut Beit Yosef

The current Israeli State represents the first imprint of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel in close to two thousand years. Yet, how is can it be explained that a group of Jews rebellious to Torah, found success in reclaiming the Land of their ancestors. The state now hold the most Jews out of any place in the world and grows stronger with each passing year. This troubles many religious Jews philosophically, because many leaders in Israel, at least in the early years appeared openly "anti-religious." This is in fact the nature of Malchut Beit Yosef. Yosef appeared to his brothers as an Egyptian and it was his descendants who became the kings of the Northern kingdom of Israel and appeared to openly rebel against the G-d. Yet appearances can be deceiving and although Achav the idol worshiping king of Northern Israel, a descendant of Yosef through the tribe of Efraim killed countless prophets and chased after Eliyahu, he still made into Gan Aden. Why? More interesting is that his army won every battle. Why? The answer pointed out by the sages is that he did not allow loshon hara to be spoken in his kingdom because the unity of Israel was of the utmost importance to him.

Rav Kook points out that the beginning of the State resembles many aspects of the Northern Kingdom of Israel and not Yehuda. He says that this is a necessary stage in our redemption, because exile forced us to live without the notion of the Nation as a whole. The founders of the State were drawn to an extreme notion of the necessity of Nation instead of religion, yet taking Rav Kook's point of view into consideration, we can understand why this was so. By first resurrecting Malchut Beit Yosef HaShem is establishing the physical apparatus that will make way for the merger of the Kingdom of Yehuda (Torah and spirituality), thus representing a united kingdom once again, which can only be ruled by Beit David.

May it be so!