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12 Dov Schwartz that nationalism compels a renewal and examination of Jewish faith holding that, henceforth, the concern should not be with the divinity as such and with issues such as creation and beginnings but with Divine Providence and its ways in history . Reines’ activity in Russia had a parallel in the Land of Israel in the activity of R . Haim Hirschensohn ( 1857 - 1935 ) . Both began with education and moved to politics . Neither one was tremendously successful in his educational activity but it is clear why both of them established the Mizrachi and understood that religious Zionism is a faction that must join a broad Zionist body to attend to the interests of observant Jews . The Endeavor This body was indeed calledMohilever founded the Mizrachi . 5 “spiritual center,” but its goal was organizational . It was meant to restore the Hibbat Zion movement from the crisis of apathetic supporters and from the ban on land purchases imposed by the Ottoman rulers . Even if, for the moment, we disregard the specific considerations of strengthening the Bnei Moshe movement founded by Ahad - Haam and the Odessa Committee and their opposition to the Bialystok Center, this was still an organizational body that would concentrate the settlement activity without actually setting spiritual goals . Officially, the center was responsible for national propaganda but its main activity was settlement in the Land of Israel . The Mizrachi founded by Mohilever was not confined to observant Jews . Quite the contrary . The center intended to continue the joint activities of secular and religious Jews started by Hibbat Zion or, more precisely, to restore them after the big crises, among them also At first, Reinesa crisis of distrust between the movement’s blocs . 6 See Ayala Shayovitz, “The Mizrahi under the Leadership of R . Shmuel . 5 Mohilever ( 1893 - 1898 ) ”, Bishvilei Hatehyiah 3 ( 1989 ) : 155 - 168 [ Heb ] . See Ehud Luz, Parallels Meet : Religion and Nationalism in the Early . 6 Zionist Movement , trans . Len J . Schramm ( Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 1988 ) .
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