Leon Pinsker might've been the first *secular* Zionist but R. Yehuda Bibas(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Bibas#Zionist_activism) was a full 30 years before him and wasn't the only Sephardic voice in favor of the idea or actively working toward it.
As a separate note, nice hint on דרכי אמורי. You had fertile ground if you wanted to spell out that Levantineness isn't the solution. Frankly even if we ignore the Lebanese "Phoenician"/"Aramaic" identity or the Syriac one or the Pan-Arabist version of a century ago, we still have the hinted ways of the Canaanite nations before them who we were told not to emulate.
Hundred percent agree on halacha -> our cultural norms spelled out. It won't draw certain types of personalities but it quite literally is the formal expression of "what we do".
"Dati-Leumi women, taking inspiration from Tanakh, adapted their own clothing to be stylish and feminine while being completely in line with Halacha – the native law system of the Jewish people. This is the example of Jewish culture building par excellence, and it would behoove us men to try and replicate it." This is what Reuven Prager zl of Beged Ivri was attempting to do- for men also.
Leon Pinsker might've been the first *secular* Zionist but R. Yehuda Bibas(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Bibas#Zionist_activism) was a full 30 years before him and wasn't the only Sephardic voice in favor of the idea or actively working toward it.
As a separate note, nice hint on דרכי אמורי. You had fertile ground if you wanted to spell out that Levantineness isn't the solution. Frankly even if we ignore the Lebanese "Phoenician"/"Aramaic" identity or the Syriac one or the Pan-Arabist version of a century ago, we still have the hinted ways of the Canaanite nations before them who we were told not to emulate.
Hundred percent agree on halacha -> our cultural norms spelled out. It won't draw certain types of personalities but it quite literally is the formal expression of "what we do".
Amazing quote from words of Leon Pinsker, the first Zionist!
Your understanding is like an exray of the fracture of a bone, only regarding the situation we do not seem to have a solution for.
It encompasses a root cause of the immoral fomentation, which you have also given the historical time of.
"Dati-Leumi women, taking inspiration from Tanakh, adapted their own clothing to be stylish and feminine while being completely in line with Halacha – the native law system of the Jewish people. This is the example of Jewish culture building par excellence, and it would behoove us men to try and replicate it." This is what Reuven Prager zl of Beged Ivri was attempting to do- for men also.
Why do you call Pinsker the first Zionist?
He was the first *secular* Zionist, so a bit of a misspeak
Ah, understood, ty.