Rav Wasserman's guidance from 1921 fits the headlines of today
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In part 27 of The Prophetic Teachings of Rav Elchonon Wasserman we studied the first half of an essay he published in 5682, over 100 years ago. Here is an excerpt from the beginning that fits the news out of Israel today like a glove:
“And those who hate you will rule over you” (Vayikra 26:17).
“That I will set up people who hate you only from you and inside you. [This is a particular curse,] for when the nations of the world stand up against Israel they only seek that which is in the open…but when I stand up [enemies] against you from you and inside you, they will search after your hidden things” (Rashi from Toras Kohanim).
This curse has come upon us in our generations in the most terrible fashion. In the known country (Russia) the authority over Judaism was given to the hands of apostates, a small minority of whom are wild fanatics, and the vast majority are the regular sort who cast off the yoke of heaven. They lack any human feeling…
Have you seen videos of the Erev Rav in uniforms destroying Jewish homes, and savagely beating (religious) Jewish protestors?
Have you read their laconic statements to the press in response to various atrocities and “intelligence failures”?
Have you detected any trace of humanity and compassion in their campaign to sanction a large segment of the population that refuses to join the physical and spiritual meat grinder known as the IDF?
Do they even pretend to care about the small children they wish to drive into acute poverty with the seething hatred that they have for no other people on earth?
Back to Rav Wasserman:
They have formed a dark inquisition, the likes of which hasn’t been since the middle ages. They pursue Jews with anger and fury over Torah study, Shabbos observance, and the like. They establish schools for Jewish children of tender age, where the primary instruction is kefirah of the fundamentals and unprecedented abandonment [of the Torah[. From instruction such as this all that can grow is wild animals in the form of human beings.
In Eretz Yisrael, in which the agents of the Satan think the rulership belongs to them, they copy like monkeys the ideology of “their friends”, for whom in their eyes the best way to show everyone the practical reality of their ideology — is the fist.
Again, Rav Wasserman wrote this in 1921-22, long before the agents of Satan had an actual state, with all the resources and power that afforded them to carry out their war against the Jewish people from within.
In the other countries, in which they were not able to openly use the power of the fist, there instead exist newspapers of hired jokers and scoffers of all types, who wear different masks and costumes — and some don’t wear a mask at all — and all of them dance in the circle of demons, whose end goal is: to disconnect the Jew from the authority of the Torah of Hashem.
Now go read The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, Arutz Sheva, or any of the other cynical propaganda organs with hired mercenaries, some of whom wear masks, but all of whom dance with the same demons and advance the same goal.
It is no coincidence that the exponential rise of anti-Jewish blood libels in the gentile media and social media directly parallels an escalation in the way our enemies from within are pursuing “Jews with anger and fury over Torah study, Shabbos observance, and the like.”
It doesn’t matter if you are not part of the community that is the main focus of their pursuit. (Don’t worry, they have plans for you too.) It doesn’t matter if you have legitimate complaints about this community. Just as our external enemies put aside their differences to wage war against us, we need to put aside our differences and stand together when Torah study and yeshiva students are under attack.
It doesn’t matter if you would never send your child to one of the yeshivos being attacked. You need to speak out against this.
Rav Wasserman’s essay continued with many more important points, such as to what extent we can passively rely on the guarantee that Hashem will save us, and the necessary preconditions for Hashem to perform miracles for us.
The class is embedded above and on Rumble here.
If you don’t share the Torah’s true perspective with people, who will? The media?
For those who don’t understand what this “draft law” entails, have a look at this English summary:
How can any decent person, let alone someone who considers himself a Torah-observant Jew of any denomination, support this atrocity?
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