Original sentence: One of the American leaders of the Lithuanian Jewish world, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein (1895–1986), said that it is forbidden to call the State of Israel the "first flowering of the Redemption"
Edited sentence: One of the American leaders of the Lithuanian Jewish world, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein (1895–1986), expressed something approaching ambivalent support of the State of Israel, saying that it is proper to pray for the Welfare of the State of Israel, so long as one does not call it the "first flowering of the Redemption"