Leading Haredi Rabbi: 'zionist rabbis teach a twisted version of the Torah'
The dean of the Slabodka Yeshiva Rabbi Dov Landau attacked the religious Zionist community and claimed that it would be better if the Arabs would rule Israel.
The dean of the Slabodka Yeshiva Rabbi Dov Landau, considered one of the leaders of the non-Hassidic (Litvish) haredi community, made harsh remarks about the religious Zionists and their rabbis in an answer to a question about conscription of yeshiva students to the IDF.
The dean spoke to rabbis from the Lev Shomea organization about Torah study, which he claimed saves Israel from the Arabs. "Every student who studies the Torah, what he does to save the people of Israel can not be described! Every boy, married man, or student every Jew who studies, but the boys, because of them there's a logical explanation to why we exist here."
He added, in the discussion, which was published by the haredi Kikar HaShabbat website: "This is a logical explanation, there is no other explanation, only talk, or those who are confused with the knitted kippot (the religious Zionists), I'm not even talking about them, they have their own theories, it's difficult with them, that's a different discussion... if we speak about them we will move on to different realms... I could talk a lot, it's an old-fashioned zeal... Now is not the time, if you want I could talk [about it]."
A member of the crowd told the rabbi: "Today there are a lot of boys who see the religious Zionist community, who really sacrifice their lives to their understanding, some study, and on the other hand they go and get killed for what they call 'the defense of the nation and the land,' and there are boys who because of this feel that we're not ok."
The rabbi answered: "So I said, they are being killed because we don't study enough, and we have to save more. They are being killed because their rabbis teach them a twisted version of the Torah, those who know the Zionist idea, what was once Bnei Akiva (youth organization), it still exists, but I don't wish them any blessing."
He also suggested transferring Israel to Arab leadership: "It was pretty good when the Arabs ruled here, the best situation, the Arabs ruled, they respect us, they don't get involved, they bring money to the country, the Arabs love money."
He added: "Zionism thought they would save the Jewish people, and they brought physical disasters to the Jewish people, not just spiritual ones, the Arabs never hated us so much."
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5 comments:
Much of what the Rabbi said is true but the part where he mentions the pereadam to rule, chas v'chalilah, elef alfei pa'amim is totally wrong.
What he said about them getting along (before the 'state')with the Jews is
totally wrong; remember - 1929, 1936 just for some examples. They used
the same terror then (cutting out babies from pregnant women, etc., r'l).
All he had to say was this is part of the Erev Rav agenda and they are in control, and that's why they have these 'new type' rabbis who are their puppets and think they can twist the halachot & hashkafot around a little.
Ironically, during the Muslim rule of the Ottoman Empire, RELIGIOUS Jews developed the ability to defend themselves, whether it was the Litvish Russian farmers of Mezkeret Batya (today Ekron) or the disciples of the Vilna Gaon creating the first modern Jewish neighborhoods outside the Old City of Yerushalayim.
These religious Jews freely battled and even killed Arab marauders when their lives were threatened and experienced no repercussions from the Muslim government for doing so.
These Jews carried rifles and handguns, and no one tried to steal from them their right to bear arms.
Please see my post on their stories:
http://myrtlerising.weebly.com/blog/jewish-self-defense-in-eretz-yisrael-it-all-started-with-the-strictly-orthodox-jews-and-it-proved-more-effective-than-the-current-defense-carried-out-by-the-anti-orthodox
Likewise, today in Morocco, Jewish citizens and tourists enjoy the protection of the king.
I feel that Rav Landau utilized tongue-in-cheek making his points, and may be taken out of context by others.
This comment is not mine, but posted for a friend. Didn’t remember to change the entry name to “anonymous”. Sorry for confusing anyone.
To Anon @16:20 - you're right but when the British took over (they are very anti-semitic), they were the ones that always incited the Arabs to kill the Jews.
Shows you that Eisav is even worse than Yishmael, even though they equal out each other. Eisav soneh Yaakov. Here too, we see the nations who support the murderous hamas, y'shmom, v'zichrom, are blatantly against us and those who secretly support our enemies.
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