Mordechai Sones: But the Rebbe said to Vote

 

‘But the Rebbe Said to Vote’

The same Rebbe who said to vote ruled four years later that joining a coalition is 'absolutely forbidden.' Read both letters before you use either

Every election, the answer to my case for a conditional vote is the same: “But the Rebbe said.” So I read what he said, every time he said it. In 1955 he obligated the vote because it gave “no assistance at all to any ministry.” In the same months he wrote that a voter “bears no responsibility for the laws and decrees,” but one who enters the coalition bears responsibility “for all the laws and decrees.” In 1959 he ruled that joining a coalition is “absolutely forbidden.” And in 1992 he warned a right-wing government that he would fight it “so that the government falls.” I also explain why I used to think just like you, and what changed my mind. https://jewishhome.news/but-the-rebbe-said-to-vote/