373 14 Holy Land in Exile: The Torah MiTzion Movement – Toward a New Paradigm for Religious Zionism Adam S. Ferziger Introduction e familiar sights and sounds of the beit midrash drew me in. Young men wearing knitted skullcaps and sandals, some of them bearded, were sitting in twosomes and debating the intricacies of ancient talmudic texts. e large study hall was lined with books and panels made of Jerusalem Stone that were engraved with citations from the works of Rabbi Avraham Isaac Hacohen Kook.1 Huge volumes rested upon the tables that separated the pairs, most of them in