Destiny Born of the Deepest Faith
     
 Introduction to the Ohr Chodosh Suggested Reading Curriculum
October 7 was not merely a national tragedy.
It was a mirror.
It reflects the danger of forgetting who we are—and the enduring truth that Amalek strikes whenever Israel grows faint, whenever faith is replaced by fear, and purpose by confusion.
The Shoah taught this brutally.
So does October 7.
From the camps of Europe to the fields of the Negev, Jewish history repeats a single warning: survival without meaning is not life; existence without faith is exile by another name.
The historic title to this Land belongs to Israel as a Divine gift, and its legal claim has been paid for in Jewish blood, sweat, and tears.
 
“There is no other nation that has been exiled and returned to its land, except for the Jewish people.” — Talmud Berakhot 12b
This return is not merely geographic.
It is a miraculous reclamation of identity, faith, and destiny.
Who else has written, in living history, a second commonwealth—and now, a third?
The story of Israel is empirical proof that history itself can be holy: natural events guided by a hidden hand, miracles clothed in motion.
To be a Jew is to sense that hand—to live with awareness that purpose is real, that covenant is binding, and that without the sacred, there is no nation at all.
Why This Reading List Exists
This reading list is not an academic syllabus.
It is a path back to wholeness.
It was born from the recognition that our deepest wound is spiritual amnesia.
We have raised generations fluent in the world’s wisdom yet strangers to their own.
They know art and science, but not the prophets; they speak of justice but have forgotten the Judge.
The greatest cause of Jewish disunity is not argument—it is ignorance.
Without Torah and history, there can be no shared conscience; without faith, there can be no shared destiny.
Education is not information—it is inheritance.
To study our texts is to rejoin the chain that begins at Sinai and winds through Josephus, through Aish Kodesh in the Warsaw Ghetto, through Herzl and Teichtal, through Goren and Kahane, through every Jew who believed that history itself could be redeemed.
This reading list is meant to rebuild that inheritance:
to restore memory, reignite faith, and reunite the nation through the wisdom of its own sources.
It aims to form leaders who remember, who draw courage from Torah, clarity from history, and vision from the covenant that still binds us.
The purpose is not merely to create thinkers or builders—it is to rekindle a people who know that their life is holy, their history purposeful, and their return no accident.
This is not a course of study.
It is a summons—to remember, to believe, and to build again a people united under one Name dedicated to Torah, Land and People.