Rabbi Weissman: ".........the IDF is god"

 Thousands of soldiers affirm that the IDF is god

Plus questions the milchemes mitzva crowd refuses to answer, and more

n this week’s Torah class we began with a powerful reminder from Sefer Nechemya not to allow the Erev Rav and Amalek to suck the joy out of our holidays, as they always try to do. The bulk of the class was devoted to fundamental messages from the Haggadah that we all recite, but perhaps overlook or fail to internalize. The recording as available here.  

The following headline comes from JNS:

How wonderful and inspiring! Such heroes! That’s the typical reaction of those who have been conditioned to behave like pom-pom-waving cheerleaders. Critical thinking is absent from the equation, especially if they received “higher education”.

However, even momentary reflection should make anyone of sound mind recoil, especially a Jew who is guided by the Torah.

The notion that one would affirm (and reaffirm!) unconditional service to an army — even one that purports to be protecting Israel — is antithetical to the Torah and basic common sense.

Unconditional service means never refusing an order, no matter what. If you are ordered into a death trap you don’t think twice, or even once.

If the IDF hand-picks and especially conditions soliders to destroy Jewish communities and surrender their land to enemies, your relationship with the army and your devotion to it remain unaffected.

If you are ordered to destroy Jewish communities and surrender their land to enemies, you overcome your nagging conscience and do it. Unconditional service means you don’t have a conscience — you just follow orders and remain devoted as ever.

The same is true when the army continues its long, inglorious history of having no intention to win, refusing to win even when victory is there for the taking, dubious “intelligence failures” that result in catastrophes, sending tons of critical aid to the enemy (while soldiers depend on handouts and the people you are fighting for are driven into poverty), forcing soldiers to fight with both hands tied behind their back, sending soldiers to prison if they defend themselves too well in spite of this, bowing to the will of foreign “allies” and adversaries alike, actually collaborating with them against the desire and interests of the citizens (which is somehow not considered treason), and otherwise being “stupid” — which even the most ardent unconditional servants complain about, but for which their devotion remains unaffected.

If your finances and your family rot while you serve unconditionally, so be it.

If you are ordered to stand down for 8+ hours while Jews are being slaughtered, you stand down.

If you are ordered to refrain from properly defending yourself when you are being attacked, you obey.

If you are ordered to commit an atrocity, or look the other way when one is being committed, you do that too.

If you are ordered to violate Shabbos, and kashrus, and tzenius, and generally sacrifice Jewish law and life whenever it conflicts with “unconditional service” — even if it isn’t remotely pikuach nefesh — you do it, and you get over your guilt. Your form of Judaism demands subverting the Torah whenever you are ordered to — without conditions.

If you are ordered to shoot your own parents in the head, you affirm that you will do that, too. There must be a good reason, and even if there isn’t, maintaining unity and order in the army is reason enough. Demonstrating unswerving loyalty to the IDF and the State is reason enough. We can’t have everyone deciding for themselves which orders to obey, after all. Unconditional service!

Don’t scoff. Whether or not such an order is given makes no difference; that’s the meaning of unconditional service. No conditions. No red lines. The moment you establish an exception, any exception, your service is no longer unconditional — and that is unacceptable.

Here’s the thing: even if none of the above scenarios ever happened, even if the IDF were a truly Jewish army led exclusively by God-fearing, Torah-observant Jews, it would be senseless and completely against the Torah to serve them unconditionally.

An affirmation of unconditional service is tantamount to saying na’aseh v’nishma — what we said at Har Sinai when we accepted the Torah.

We serve Hashem unconditionally — and only Hashem.

We do not even follow any prophet, Torah sage, or the Sanhedrin unconditionally. Even Moshe Rabbeinu had to earn our trust and maintain it. No one gets a blank check — certainly not the kofrim and other despicable characters who rule over the State and the IDF.

By definition, one cannot serve both Hashem and anyone or anything else unconditionally. One must give way to the other. Hence, an affirmation of serving in the IDF unconditionally is a declaration of rebellion against Hashem. Those who make this affirmation have exchanged Hashem for a new god called the faux-Jewish entity known as the State of Israel, to whom and to whose military they are completely devoted, no matter what.

It is avoda zara.

Those who made this affirmation are not heroes. They are reshaim — even if they were yarmulkas and studied in yeshiva, and believe they are fighting to protect the Jewish people. The fact that many of them were brainwashed into becoming reshaim doesn’t change this, just like one who is brainwashed into serving avoda zara for the greater good is still an idolater, with all that this entails.

These people have no right to celebrate Shavuos. They have no right to commemorate the day the Jewish people stood at Har Sinai and accepted the Torah, saying na’aseh v’nishma.

The same is true of those who celebrate this affirmation. They are celebrating avoda zara.

All this is buried just beneath the surface of a feel-good headline in the “Jewish” media. This is the dark, sinister propaganda that is brainwashing our people every hour of every day.

The snakes behind the propaganda are very clever. They know which buttons to push. They present this affirmation of unconditional service as a counterpoint to a letter from “leftists” who refuse to serve. They are bad! So the opposite must be good! Good people serve — unconditionally!

(This tactic works marvelously as well with staged “leftist” protests. No one benefits from them more than the target of these protests; all his sins are forgiven or forgotten, as the people he sold out reflexively defend him. If the leftists are targeting him, he must be their champion. Works like a charm every time.)

Good people don’t devote themselves to one side of a color war when both sides are bad. Good people don’t choose the lesser of two evils. Good people recoil from evil, even if that means making a third choice, one that isn’t presented to them by the propagandists.

Most of all, good people never just follow orders — even if the orders are given in Hebrew.

Mazal Tov to Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion for being honored by the Freemasons.

See the Hebrew article on Ashdod Hayom here.

Doesn't mean anything, no big deal, move right along.

They sure are building freely, aren't they....luxury towers of Bavel everywhere...

Your dream home in Jerusalem, floor 33 in an ugly tower, only 4 million shekels.

Can someone who believes everyone is obligated to "serve" in the IDF because they are supposedly fighting a milchemes mitzva please explain the following:

1. How is it a milchemes mitzva when there is no intention to defeat the enemy, and there never was?

2. How is it a milchemes mitzva when there is no intention to conquer land, let alone increase settlement in Eretz Yisrael?

You know full well that both of these points are true, and you complain about it all the time. So how is it still a milchemes mitzva? These two questions must be fully addressed before you can even begin to play the milchemes mitzva card.

You cannot just wave these questions away with claims that "the IDF is keeping us safe", and "it would be even worse otherwise". First of all, that is pure speculation. Second of all, this closes off any serious exploration of an alternative path, dooming us to continue spinning our wheels in the mud, with no real hope. No one is obligated to accept such an argument to join an army and endanger themselves physically and spiritually just because you have blind faith in a failed system.

Second of all, that's the pikuach nefesh card, which is different than the milechemes mitzva card. So if you're immediately falling back on that, you are acknowledging that this is NOT a milchemes mitzva, and can no longer play that card.

The following are supplemental questions.

3. How is it a milchemes mitzva when the army you are part of is arming and supplying your enemies?

4. How is it a milchemes mitzva when you are led into battle by kofrim and corrupt leaders who routinely get Jews maimed and killed for political considerations, diplomatic considerations, PR considerations, and other ulterior motives (even if you don't believe such motives are sinister)?

These are serious questions. If you are going to use halachic terms like milchemes mitzva, you must seriously address these issues. Otherwise you have no right to make demands of Torah-true Jews, expect them to take you seriously, or even argue from the standpoint that you are a Torah-true Jew yourself.

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