Question: Where did the word “Zion” come from?

Answer: “Zion” is from the word “Etzia” (“exit”)—exit from exile.

If Zionism previously attracted Jews to Zion, today it not only does not attract, but actually repels because it is being replaced by a new form of uniting people, not around some places called “Zion” or “Jerusalem,” which have become symbols of hard Judaism.

Real Zionism, which has gradually formed and is still being formed from the past, is “love your neighbor,” which is the next step in the connection of the people regardless of their land or even their customs.

The most important custom—”love your neighbor as yourself” (the main rule of the Torah)—is what it is calling to fulfill in the first place. This is the real Zionism of today that arose on the ruins of the old one, which has simply served its purpose.

Previously there was an aspiration to the earth, to Zion, to stones, to the Wailing Wall, to something so much more understandable and in some way attractive, like stones in the ancestral cemetery. But in the end, all this disappears and is emptied of the great fulfillment that once existed, even at the beginning of the 20^th century.

By the 21^st century it has ceased to be something attractive at all. On the contrary, the call to Zionism is something inhibiting, and it manifests itself as a lack of understanding of the current situation and the movement of history.

Now Zionism has taken the place of uniting all people, not only Jews, although the Jews should be in the center. This connection should indicate the future to all the nations of the world.
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From KabTV’s “Zionism” 1/18/23

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