When I talk to my Satmar buddies, they keep pointing out to me how R' Yoel Teitelbaum, founder of Satmar Chassidus SHIT'ah was proven correct vis a vis the status of the State of Israel.....
I cry and I laugh when I hear this silly naive remarks ....
I cry because his prediction in 1943, that Hitler ym"s would never enter Hungary and Romania may have inadvertently caused the deaths of thousands of his followers ......
Of course, how would he really know as he himself admitted in a Shalosh Seuda drasha on Parshas Shlach in 1967 that he "is not a novie and not the son of a novie" (why he dragged his father into this.. we will never know) and he added that he doesn't have "Ruach Ha'Koidesh.!
It's too bad that instead of taking some blame and blaming other Torah Leaders of that time that made similar predictions, he blamed ........
who????
Who did he blame for the Holocaust????
Oh ... I know ..... the Nazis ym"s ....
Nope.... Guess again......
Rav Avraham Yitzchok HaKohein Kook z"l......?
No .... you silly goose .....
He blamed ..... yup .......
He blamed ....... The Zionists!!!
What ... you crazy idiot ....The Zionists didn't have an army, didn't have a state ....had nothing ..... how could Zionists who just had some little fragmented groups be responsible for what the Nazis did to the Jews in 1944?
Aha.......I know it makes absolutely no sense, but they believe that Hashem decided to have the Nazis annihilate 6 million innocent Jews because there were people out there that wanted to return to our homeland and build a country!!!
But but but .......
Weren't Jews murdered in crusades, in pogroms, expelled from Spain, Portugal, Brazil and England hundreds of years before Zionism was ever thought of .....??
They answer... "Don't confuse us with the facts."
And I have to laugh when I listen the CD of R' Yoel Teitelbaum's prediction in 1956 and then later in 1967 that there will absolutely be no Torah Institution in the Zionist State of Israel in "20 years."
He added in that very same drasha that all the Jews living in Israel will no longer be "Shomrei Torah Umitzvois."
There is a record-breaking number of Yeshiva Bochrim and avreichim in Israel, a number that has not been reached since the establishment of the state in 1948. According to the Israel Democracy Institute, in 2017, there were 124,450 bochrim and avreichim sitting and learning in yeshivos nationwide.
According to the 2018 Israel Democracy Institute’s annual report, based on official data from the Central Bureau of Statistics and the government ministries, the IDF and the National Insurance Institute (Bituach Leumi), there was a sharp increase of more than 30 percent in the number of talmidim compared to 2014. According to the data, this is a new record reflecting a 21% jump in three years.
The ratio vis-à-vis 2013 is due to a decline in that year, when it was a decline of 12.5%, and a year later fell another 3.5%. The following year, the trend reversed and was a 19% jump back to the familiar numbers. Since then, the numbers have continued to rise, and in 2017 the record was set.
The data also indicate that concurrent with the large increase in the number of students in yeshivas and kollels, there is a halt to the entry of chareidim into academic studies, and their number has dropped by 200 student
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