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The Knesset building.

The ones who should play the chief role in this context are ba’alei teshuvah. Their love and fear of God caused them to deviate from the path of the sector that they grew up in and to transform themselves as an individual. Since they were not nurtured from infancy in the greenhouse of any particular religious/ultra-religious faction, they do not necessarily identify with them sectorally, and they also retain some affinity with the rest of the population in the country. For example, someone who was educated to national commitment—which is basically a positive trait—may find it difficult to confine themselves to the restricted sectoral philosophy that they have joined (and any attempt to do so probably causes them great frustration).

Those who have undergone a process of reassessing their ideology and valiantly transforming their private life by committing themselves to their new beliefs are invited to reach the necessary conclusions about the public life of the Jewish People. They are the ones who are most suited to lead—by uniting together with all those who fear God—a process of public teshuvah.

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Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh is the Dean of Yeshivah Od Yosef Chai in Yitzhar. For more of Rabbi Ginsburgh's teachings, please visit Inner.org.