I am not ignorant to Jewish thought.
I was actually referring more to the author of the piece to which you linked.
...You know as well as I do that if His people repent and turn to Torah, He will restore the kingdom.
By the way. What is your view on why Hashem removed His protection in the fist century? It has been many years in diaspora for us all. I think it is a logical to rethink how we have been approaching YHVH and His Torah.
I don't think it has anything to do with how we have been approaching God and Torah per se. I think it has more to do with actually learning Torah, observing mitzvot, and putting into practice what we have been taught.
The Rabbis tell us that the Second Temple was lost because of
sinat chinam (baseless hatred, vicious intolerance); by extension, our inability to rein in and refrain from
sinat chinam even amongst ourselves is what has driven us into Exile and kept us there.
I think that really controlling and freeing ourselves from
sinat chinam-- probably, as Rav Kook taught, through pathways of
ahavat chinam, unconditional love and tolerance-- will be a major set of steps on the road to bringing the moshiach and ending the Exile. But I think the moshiach isn't going to come until we have achieved-- or largely achieved--
tikkun olam (the amending/repair of the world), not just amongst the People Israel but among all nations.
I am firmly of the school of thought that holds that the moshiach is a leader who inaugurates a messianic era and leads us in it, not a leader who brings us to a messianic age and causes it to come about. When we have conquered
sinat chinam, made peace with our enemies, helped bring about endings to war, poverty, famine, plagues, homelessness, oppression, intolerance, and so forth, then we will have proven that we are worthy of a messianic age, and the moshiach will come to help us organize and to lead us as we rebuild the Temple, reconstitute the Sanhedrin, and dedicate ourselves to renewed spirituality and living in a world guided by the principles of Torah.
