"Your attempt at being PCWhat has my dander up when I should be mellowing into pre-Shabbat mode?
makes you total anti-Torah, anti-Jewish hyPoCrites!"
Admittedly, this isn't the first time I've condemned such misguided thinking. Recently, I wrote about it in the Eye of the Storm and previously in Shiloh Musings, in a number of posts.
We have to stop "turning the other cheek" and finally act as proud, confident Jews! ‘Homesh First’: We Won’t be Suckers Anymore! That's more like it!
According to Israeli Law, Olmert and many other politicians should be prosecuted, not Rabbi Wolpe. Olmert's admitted goal is the end of Israel as a self-reliant independent country. That is the actual meaning of what he, as head of government, mean when they've said that the aim of the Lebanon War, a year and a half ago, was to bring foreign troops into Israel to defend it.
And what about democracy, you are probably wondering. Olmert has announced that he is supplanting, replacing the law of the land and will give personal final approval or rejection for any building plans in Judea and Samaria. He is out to kowtow to foreign rulers, rather than build and protect our country.
Why should US's Bush and Rice have any control over Jewish growth in the Land of Israel? Bush is a lame duck American President, who is for America and his family's business-interests first, not Israel's security, and Rice has stated numerous times that her aim is to be midwife to a Pseudistinian state and doesn't care how it endangers Israel.
Now, back to business--
- Those "Members of Knesset, ministers and a major US-based Orthodox Jewish organization" should be condemning Olmert and his fellow travelers.
- They should be condemning all those who call for the destruction of Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel.
- They should be condemning all those who prevent the growth of Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel.
- They should be condemning all those who offer our precious, Holy Land to our enemies.
- They should be condemning all those who want to make our Historic and Holy Land judenrein.
- They should be condemning all those who are building walls in our Holy Land to keep Jews from moving freely.
- They should be condemning all those who are dividing our Ancient Holy Capital City Jerusalem.
- They should examine their souls to discover to whom they are truly loyal.
Shabbat Shalom from the Holy City of Shiloh
16 comments:
B"H Things are coming to a head. Jews are going to have to start deciding whether they want Torah or the "State." Because the conflict between the two is becoming greater and greater.
Rabbi Ginsburg, Rabbi David Drukman (Krayoth), Rabbi Shmu'el Eliyahu, Rav Palei (Yitzhar), and most recently Rav Yisrael Ariel (Temple Institute) have come under fire for their comments, incompatible with the State," choosing Torah instead.
Religious Zionist Jews will have to decide either/or, and suggest they do it fast, before it's too late.
Mamlakhti Rabbis (I won't name names on someone else's blog w/o her permission.) are going to have to step aside before they lead us down a path of our final destruction.
I find it incredibly difficult to accept that Rav Kook ever intended for us to accept the State's antiTorah actions unconditionally, let alone bow down to it, as some might have us believe.
Things are coming to a head.
You're right. We have to make a choice. That's why I stress that aliyah is to the Land not the state.
I don't think that HaRav Kook ever expected things to get this bad.
Ben-Yehudah, you should read what Rav Kook (the elder) said about the founding of Hebrew University. The Rav was present at the founding, said positive things about HU and then said that if HU does anything against the Torah it will be in error. I think the Rav even mentioned that he would regret having encouraged the founding of HU.
Rav Lior is of the opinion that many in the national-religious camp misinterpret Rav Kook's (the younger) teachings. Also many rabbis in the national-religious camp blatantly disregarded their rabbi, Rav Shapira ztza"l, (Correct me if I'm wrong, but he had been a student of Rav Kook), when they instructed their students not to refuse orders.
It makes no sense that either Rav Kook the elder or the younger would have been in favor of following the State when its decisions are so clearly in opposition to the Torah.
Things are indeed coming to a head, and the sooner they do, the better the chance we have of saving lives and settlements. We lost Gush Katif and the northern Shomron not only because of the Mamlakhti Rabbis (the list is too long to quote anyway), but because the struggle was started too late.
I personally would like to ask every rabbi who said not to refuse expulsion orders if a soldier should eat treif if his officer tells him to.
Hadassa DeYoung, K'far Darom/Elon Moreh
Hadassa, you are so right. Also your living in Elon Moreh is a good one, better than a refugee camp.
We must be fighting the government more.
Batya, you've done so much for us, please do one more thing: don't call us refugees. We're not refugees and not evacuees. We didn't seek refuge, because we lived without fear in Gush Katif. We weren't evacuated, because that would imply that we were removed from a dangerous situation and brought to safety. The expulsion did not improve anyone's security situation.
Hadassa DeYoung, K'far Darom/Elon Moreh
B"H
Hadassa, we're on the same page.
Perhaps you would be willing to write about Rav Kook at the Hebrew U. opening, and on other things. The more people who write, the better, I think.
Hadassa, please, tell me what "label" you prefer, and bli neder that's what I'll use, unless I unintentionally forget.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised at the OU reaction. After all, they'd already given a hechsher, as it were, to Olmert. [My memory's fuzzy at the moment -- but I'm thinking it was not too long after the 'Amona pogrom that he was invited to speak at a major OU event?]
Ditto to your post and the assorted comments.
Batya, I guess my "label" should be my name and not my husband's. I can't figure out how to change it and I never think of it when he's around. (It's not so important. We don't disagree on much ;))
Ben-Yehudah, and anyone else who's interested in Rav Kook's opinion on HU, should Google "Rabbi Kook Hebrew University". I don't have time right now to provide a link. The Rav's perspective is very important to anyone who is concerned with how the right-wing seems to blindly follow the government because "the State is holy". I'm sure that Rav Kook made many statements concerning the conditional holiness of the government. Batya mentioned that we make aliya to the Land which is of course always holy, and not the state. Is the state always holy, and the government not always? Or is the holiness of the state dependent on the holiness of the government?
Hadassa
maoz, they invited him to the big convention here over a year ago, Thanksgiving weeken. The rationale/excuse was that he was PM and it was in that capacity. But the biggest surprise of that evening was that Danny Ayalon told them not to make aliyah!
And then Nefesh B'Nefesh hired him, strange...
Hadassa, I know that you're writing, but what should I call those of you exiled from your homes in Gush Katif?
Sorry, Batya, I missed your point. Since the expulsion the term expellee has been coined, taking the same form as refugee and describing the situation accurately. Evictee is also used. Even though that is also "non-standard" English. I hope that doesn't offend the English teacher in you.
Hadassa
The entire situation is "non-standard," at least according to any moral standards I understand.
How about exilee?
Internal exiles, like in the Soviet Union. And I wasn't the first to say it.
Hadassa
Yes, similar. I've heard that, too. So, are you ok with the term "exilee?"
ֹUnfortunately, exilee is accurate.
Hadassa
OK
And those who protest Olmert are dissidents.
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