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Many Gedolim in Europe

Opposition to the modern return to Zion has often based itself upon the now famous Talmudic passage of the Shalosh Shevuot, "The Three Oaths."

What are these three oaths? One, that the Jews should not go up (to take the land) by force, and one that G-d made the Jews swear that they would not rebel against the nations of the world, and one that G-d made the nations swear that they would not enslave the Jews too much.

In expounding the verse, "I have made you swear, O daughter of Jerusalem," the Gemara relates that the Almighty administered three oaths to the Jewish people. The time and nature of these oaths are not clear, but one of them entailed a commitment on the part of the Jews not to return and conquer Israel by force. Many Gedolim in Europe took this to forbid any attempt at reestablishing the State of Israel before Messianaic times.

Rabbi Hershel Schachter, Rosh Yeshiva, RIETS
"The Mitzvah of Yishuv Eretz Yisrael"
Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society
Number VIII, , p.27

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