NEW YORK (VINnews) — The Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Agudath Israel of America has published a sharp critique of the Bennett government’s new directives which are harming the chareidi public. The Moetzes requested that Jews worldwide should pray to Hashem to cancel the decrees of the Israeli government.
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In a letter to the members of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzky, the senior member of the Moetzes, said that the Rosh Yeshiva of Ponovezh and head of the Israeli Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, had requested that the matter of persecution of religious people in Israel be raised in the US. Rabbi Kaminetzy’s letter specified the issues of conversion (Geirus) and Kashrus, for which the current Israeli government intends to introduce reforms which could harm the religious public.
Rabbi Kaminetzky requested that the other members of the Moetzes protest the moves of the Israeli government regarding these issues.
The Moetzes issued a letter in response, stating that “In this time of distress it is incumbent upon us to join with the suffering of our brethren in the Holy Land as their distress is ours, too and also to cry out in prayer that Hashem have mercy on us and remove these decrees. The Moetzes specified Thursday, the 29th of Marcheshvan as a day of prayer to “awaken Heavenly mercy that we be saved from this decrees.”
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Israel calls itself the Jewish state. It is not Jewish because of the Balfour Declaration or the U.N. proclaiming in 1948. It is Jewish because Hashem promised the land to our forefathers for their descendants. Hashem gave us the land so shouldn’t the government follow Hashem’s laws?
When Israel gives the Agudah $$ then they keep quiet. Organizations, including Agudah, are about $$$. The propoganda and the slick ads and the convention speeches etc., are just a sideshow to distract everybody from the truth.
This has nothing to do with Zionism but rather with secularism. Israeli Jews are no different from American or European Jews who have in the majority chosen to live outside of halacha. In the US over 50% of Jews are married to non-Jews. Have the Agudah been able to do anything about that? Is it not hypocritical for Agudah to demand that the State of Israel ‘coerce its Jews’ into following halacha when it would not dare make a demand that the US Federal Government force American Jews to keep kosher and not allow intermarriage. Get real.
The Zionist Governed Rabbanut has held men in Israel forcing them to divorce their wife. The Moetzes members are aware of the issue yet don’t protest?!
Look, I love E”Y. Definitely the place for our home. However, it is governed by Zionism. That is not the same rule of law, way of life, or philosophy that is espoused in the Torah. Zionism is not necessarily Yisdishkeit.
It’s too bad that the Agudah doesn’t come out and say that the purpose of its founding was to fight Zionism.
They should loudly proclaim to all Jews who care to listen that it’s not just the “government there” that made gezeiros in only the areas of Kashrus and geirus.
They should clarify that Zionism and its government, in and of itself, is a gross merida baHashem and a danger to Klal Yisrael worldwide.
Then, on top of that, the Zionists also make gezeiros, like they have now, on kashrus and geirus.
Eretz HaKodesh lied to Klal Yisrael that if Jews would literally become Zionists in joining the WZO and sign off on the heresy of the Zionist “Jerusalem Program” (“Eretz HaKodesh” lied that you wouldn’t need to do any of this), and would vote for EH in the WZO elections that precipitated Covid, then “Eretz HaKodesh” would be able to stop the Reform in Israel.
Of course, as Rav Aharon Feldman Shlita”A wrote at the time, this was all a pack of lies, that there was no way that “EH” would be able to get nearly enough delegates to make any real difference.
So, here we are, with a Zionist leader who wears some type of kippah on his head who leads a government that is giving tens of millions of Zionist currency to the Reform movement. Seems like the appropriate response would be “HaBaal (“EH”) Aneinu!”
But, of course, Ain kol viAin oneh.
When they came for Lev Tahor I didn’t say anything, as I wasn’t Lev Tahor. When they came for the Chareidim I kept quiet, because they wouldn’t stand up for Lev Tahor. Karma.