Rabbi Kook’s Essay “HaDor” (“The Generation”)

The essay “HaDor” (“The Generation”) in the sefer “Ikvei HaTzon” is undoubtedly one of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook’s most fundamental essays, in which he analyzes the special character of the generation, and outlines a path for its repentance and perfection.

Rabbi Kook explains that Jews who abandoned the Torah in the previous generations were usually light-minded and immoral, whereas nowadays, high-quality people with beliefs and moral ambitions are leaving the Torah. 

They are searching for an absolute and lofty truth that carries a message of tikun (perfection) for Israel and the entire world. 

From what they have heard and studied about Judaism, it seems to them that the Torah deals with personal questions about kashrut and the like, but is unable to offer a way to address the significant questions of man, nation, and humanity. 

“Our generation is wonderful… it is extremely difficult to find an example [similar to it] in all our chronicles. It is composed of various upheavals, darkness and light serving in disorder. It is low and dejected, but also lofty and exalted. It is completely guilty and [at the same time] completely innocent” (pg. 108).

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Bride in critical condition after passing out during her wedding

A 33-year-old bride from a moshav in the Sadot Negev region in southern Israel was rushed to Soroka Hospital Sunday evening after she collapsed during her wedding.

The bride, a pediatrician, was evacuated to the hospital in critical condition after she passed out during her wedding, apparently following a heart attack.

Guests attempted to resuscitate the bride as they waited for MDA emergency first responders to arrive.

The wedding was held in the backyard of a private home, and a number of doctors invited to the wedding attempted to resuscitate the bride after the collapsed.

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Ukrainians Beating the Hell out of Breslovers In Uman

Oy ... This sounds crazy but Yogi Berra z"l comes to mind..

he famously said it's  "De ja vu all over again"

If you ever got a chance to read the book "Hitler's Willing Executioners" by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, you would read how the Ukrainians ... yes the grandparents of the Uman locals,  "voluntarily hunted Jews like animals, tortured them wantonly and then posed cheerfully for snapshots with their victims."

Now the grandchildren of these victims crawl back to the  blood soaked cursed earth of Uman Ukraine on the holiest day of the year leaving their families behind, spending millions of hard earned Jewish dollars, ....for what?

To leave Eretz Yisrael ... the land that Reb Nachman said is "where his soul is.".....

And who is Rav Arush blaming? 

Bibi Netanyahu.... yes .. you heard it here first...

Rav Arush is calling Bibi a "Liar" ... why? 

because Bibi said that he was working with the Ukrainian Government to allow more Jews to visit Uman...and that he is a "liar."

Insane ...
It could very well be that Bibi is a "liar" and that he is doing nothing in pushing Rabbi Arush's agenda ...

Bibi should tell the good Rabbi Arush, straight up,  that he will absolutely not cooperate with any Ukrainian official even if that means that another Israeli Jew will not be able to travel to Uman...

Bibi should ask Rabbi Arush:

Where does Hashem want an Israeli Jew to be on Rosh Hashana?

In the cursed land of Ukraine, eating free "Shiner" food, and where they are not wanted and are hated.

Or would Hashem want the Israeli Jew to stay in the blessed

land of Eretz Yisrael .. that He gifted to the children of Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov, and where they are wanted and loved.

think about it ....

Jews visiting the Ukrainian town of Uman are being attacked by locals, with violence spiraling “out of control”, a senior Breslov rabbi in Israel said Monday.

In an interview with Kol Barama radio Monday morning, Rabbi Shalom Arush, who heads the Hut Shel Hesed organization, said that residents of Uman are now systematically targeting Jewish visitors, viewing them as a threat due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

“Things have gotten out of control,” said Rabbi Arush. “Right now Uman is closed off, but those Jews who somehow manage to get there are getting beaten by Ukrainian locals who claim that the Jewish visitors are spreading disease.”

Rabbi Arush dismissed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s vow to try to reach a deal with the Ukrainian government to enable some Jews to visit Uman this Rosh Hashanah.

“I only believe in prayer, not in anyone else. The Prime Minister said that there is a compromise plan, but I don’t rely on them at all, they’ve lied again and again in the past.”

Last week, the Ukrainian government announced that it will bar entry to non-citizens starting from September 1st, with the ban running through September 28th, coinciding with the end of the Rosh Hashanah – Yom Kippur holidays, which begin on September 18th and end on the 28th.

In most years, tens of thousands of Jewish pilgrims, mostly Breslov Hasidim from Israel, visit Uman during the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur holidays to pray near the grave of Rabbe Nachman, the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement.

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BLM ‘activists’ celebrate the Killing of Trump Supporter Aaron Danielson

It’s spine-chilling to hear activists in Portland cheering about the coldblooded murder of a Trump supporter Saturday night.

“I am not sad that a f-king fascist died tonight,” a woman shouts into a megaphone at a BLM-Antifa gathering after a man was shot dead nearby.

“He was a f–king Nazi. Our community held its own and took out the trash.”

Videos posted by independent journalists Andy Ngo and Ian Miles Cheong, shows an American flag being burned in celebration as the crowd revels in the news.

Online video appears to show the murder. You can hear a man’s voice: “We got a couple right here.” And then two shots ring out.

The victim, identified as Aaron Danielson, reportedly was wearing the cap of conservative-libertarian group Patriot Prayer, whose caravan of pickup trucks festooned with flags drove through the city that day.

But because he was a supporter of President Trump, the victim did not deserve to live, according to BLM-Antifa.

Such callous disregard for certain human lives is a hallmark of the violent protests that have been sanctioned in Democrat-run cities by weak mayors such as Portland’s Ted Wheeler.

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Moving Companies in High Demand as New Yorkers Flee the City

When we fled Mitzrayim, we ran so fast that the bread never rose and we have been eating matzah for over 3,500 years because of that event.....

Don't forget that most of the Jews in Mitzrayim didn't see the handwriting on the wall, making excuses like:

"How am I going to make a parnassah in Israel?" "What am I going to do with all the real estate I own in Goshen?" "how are my children who speak fluent Egyptianese going to adapt and speak Hebrew?"  "The Canaanites who worship idols, live there" "More tumeh in Canaan than in Egypt"  "There is so much chillul shabbos there" "Let's wait until Moshiach comes" ...

They never made it out and are forgotten forever.... 

So is this a sign? or is Hashem saying "naaaaaa I want you guys to stay in chutz le'aaretz,  I gave Eretz Yisrael to chilonim , the ones who gave their very lives for their country... I want you frum guys to move to Toms River, Tampa, 5 Clowns and Montbello?

Don't forget ... that we are here today because it was our ancestors that didn't make those excuses in Mitzrayim... it was our ancestors that looked forward to Eretz Yisrael, until of course our very own frum leaders,  tzaddikim turned us off and bad mouthed the land...

We are here today because our ancestors didn't read the "empty chair" they wanted to be part of the salvation ... they saw leaving Egypt as the "aschalta de'geulah" ... they were eager to leave behind the shuls and the Yeshivos in Egypt ... that were built by Yehuda under the direction of Yaakov Aveenu..
Yes... they left it all there to wander in the desert because they kept their eye on the goal, to enter Eretz Yisrael... Remember ...don't forget 

Rich Manhattanites are fleeing the city so fast because of the pandemic and deteriorating quality of life in the Big Apple that moving companies can barely keep up with them.

“It’s nuts!’’ said Perry Chance of “Show Up” movers to The Post on Sunday. “We have four of our own trucks — but we have so many books that we had to start using U-Haul trucks!”

“The volume has increased by at least 70 percent” in the past few months, he said.

“[Clients] are mostly moving out of luxury buildings. [People] say the rich are leaving New York. Well, they are!”

Chance said 25 percent of the company’s customers are heading from the city to states such as Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Another 5 percent are moving somewhere else in the Apple.

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Islamic Scholar ‘Only Mizrahi Jews Have The Right To Live In Palestine,’

You live and learn, who knew that Islamists also have "talmeidei chachamim?" ...

Anyway he must have glanced into the Va'Yoel Moshe at some point because he mamesh came up with the same solution ...

 That "Mizrachi Jews" are welcome to live in Eretz Yisrael but under "Arab domination:"

“They would live with us, just like they live in Morocco, under the authority of the Kingdom of Morocco, they would live with us in Palestine.”

He was mamesh mechavein what the author of the Va'Yoel Moshe says, that Jews should live under Arab sovereignty...that's his solution to the "Zionist Problem."

but both, the Islamist gaon, and lehavdil the Va'oel Moshe don't address the fact that the Arabs kill their own all the time... there are few Arab countries that are not presently in a civil war, and who knows what they would do with their Jewish subjects. If they don't value the life of a fellow Islamist what value do they place on a Jew?

I am wondering, where would the "good" Islamist scholar rather live?

 In the Zionist State of Israel where he can freely spew his stupidity and hate or in Syria, where he would be tied to a chair and thrown off a roof? 

The Jewish state aspires to establish a “Greater Israel” stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates, and will eventually demand lands in Medina and other regions of the Arabian peninsula, according to Palestinian Islamic scholar Omar Fora.

Speaking with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad-affiliated Al-Quds Al-Youm television on Aug. 19, Fora warned that Israel “does not endanger the Palestinian people alone.”

Israel, he said, refused to open its embassy east of the Nile River because it considers all the land from the eastern bank of the Nile to the Euphrates River to be part of the biblical land of Israel.

“Therefore,” said Fora, “it established its embassy west of the Nile, because it considers the land west of the Nile to be outside its territory.”

“Israel is not about to achieve these Zionist or biblical ambitions now,” said Fora, “but Israel wants to establish ‘Greater Israel.’”

“By Allah,” he went on to say, “the day will come when Israel demands lands in Medina, the lands of [the Jewish tribes of] Qurayza, Nadhir and Banu Qaynuda, as well as the lands of Khaybar.”

This, he said, was the true goal of the Zionist movement.

Fora emphasized that he had no issue with Judaism, only with Zionism, but said that not all Jews would have the right to live in a Palestinian state.

“The only Jews that have a right to live with us in Palestine, under our patronage and our authority, are those who have been living in Palestine,” he said. “But the Ashkenazi Jews, who came from overseas, from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Poland, and settled in this land—they should go back to where they came from.”

Fora clarified that this would not apply to Mizrachi Jews, who he said “would have the same rights and obligations that we have.”

“They would live with us, just like they live in Morocco, under the authority of the Kingdom of Morocco, they would live with us in Palestine.”

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Coוncilman Kalman Yegar If you see Sheriff Coming To Wedding Hall "Lock the Doors"

Anyone live near Yeger? Can someone who loves him tell him to keep his mouth shut, everytime he opens it he puts his foot in his mouth..

He forgets he lives in New York, he thinks he lives in Efrat...
The last time he was in the news he tweeted that "Palestine does not exist" and was promptly kicked off the immigration committee.

Now everyone including the "Palestinians" know that "Palestine" doesn't exist ... but if you are a Councilman in New York on an immigration committee where you have the power to help a frum constituent who may need help with citizenship, wouldn't have been more prudent if he kept that fact to himself... since the City Council only deals with local situations... the City Council has absolutely no say, no power to change any political policy that affects the USA...none whatsoever...why did he tweet that?
He must think that  he is still in Yeshiva with his buddies in the lunchroom.....sneaking into the kitchen to get doubles...
He is way over his head in that position .....he should be working behind the counter in a deli slicing cold cuts.
Oh how we miss the late Noach Dear who had the position as City Councilman for many years ...
Now Kalman, "der chuchim fun dee ma'nishtana" tells the caterers to shut the doors when the Sheriffs come.... 
Hey Kalman ... you are such a big shot? Why don't you come to the next illegal wedding and lock the doors when the Sheriff shows up!

With both the mayor and the governor taking a tough stance on weddings that exceed the 50 person limit on indoor gatherings, City Councilman Kalman Yeger has responded in kind, calling on catering halls to lock their doors to keep law enforcement out.

Speaking on the Talkline radio program Saturday night, Yeger spared no words as he described how the city’s sheriff’s department has sent out uniformed officers in cars with lights and sirens and has stopped motorists on bridges, asking them where they are coming from and where they are headed.

“They are just so happy to send heavily armed militia forces into our neighborhoods because they are afraid of the size of our wedding parties,” said Yeger.

With the city facing a $9 billion deficit, Yeger wondered aloud if perhaps government resources could be better allocated elsewhere.

“I’m telling anybody who asks me, if you see them approaching a wedding hall, lock the doors,” advised Yeger. “Don’t let them in.”

The New York Post (https://bit.ly/32JipYa) pinpointed three weddings that took place in Borough Park on August 24th, estimating that each one had as many as 200 guests. The wedding manager at one hall said that the affair complied with state law because guests were divided into groups of 50, with security workers on hand to enforce social distancing.

Two days later, a spokesperson for the mayor’s office said that it planned to issue two violations to an unnamed catering hall in Borough Park, with fines totaling $2,000 for violations on gathering limits and serving food without a license.

“The state-mandated gathering limits are clear,” said mayoral spokesperson Mitch Schwartz. “If some businesses have the wrong idea, we’ll take action, first by educating and urging compliance, and then by issuing summonses if necessary. We’re not going to let COVID-19 surge again.”

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Democrats and their liberal media minions are running scared

You can almost smell the sweat. The Democrats and their media handmaidens are starting to panic about Joe Biden’s prospects.

The proof comes in their efforts to wish away the wave of crime and violence engulfing many American cities. Their argument can be boiled down to two false claims. First, it’s President Trump’s fault. Second, it’s not that big of a wave.

The first is patently absurd on its face. Democratic mayors running nearly all those cities are pulling back cops and rejecting federal help. The blood is on their hands.

The second claim is outrageously cold-hearted. It means the left sees hundreds of murders, mostly of black men, and the wholesale destruction of property as small prices to pay for putting Biden in the White House.

And so they whistle as they pass the graveyards.

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Vatican Hid Holocaust Orphans From Their Families And Urged Pope Pius Xii Not To Protest Deportations

The Vatican both fought efforts efforts to reunite two Holocaust orphans with their relatives and urged Pope Pius XII not to protest the Nazi deportation of Italian Jews, Brown University historian David I. Kertzer has found.

Kertzer published the results of his investigation into Vatican documents unsealed in March in an article published by The Atlantic on Thursday.

He revisited the high profile story of Jewish twins Robert and Gérald Finaly, who were kidnapped and baptized by French Catholic priests. 

Angelo Dell’Acqua, a Vatican Secretariat of State official who later became the cardinal for Rome, played a key role in the smuggling of the Finaly twins from France to Spain.

That happened after French judges ordered the boys, who were hidden from the Nazis at a Catholic monastery, be handed over to their aunt. That finally happened in 1953, and the twins now live in Israel.

Pius XII has long been accused of turning a blind eye to the Holocaust, which happened early on in his stint of nearly 20 years as pope, until his death in 1958.

Kertzer’s findings add to this widely-accepted impression. They include a memorandum advising Pius against formally protesting the rounding up of about 1,000 Jews in Rome in 1943 for deportation to Auschwitz.

Dell’Acqua advised Pius XII to speak privately with a German ambassador about the roundup in a talk “recommending to him that the already grave situation of the Jews not be aggravated further,” Kertzer found. But he asked the pope not to protest the move publicly.

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Kamala Harris Pandering to Dumb Naive Jews: "If elected, we’ll bring back the Iran nuclear deal"

If elected, a Biden-Harris administration would seek to “strengthen” President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, the Democratic Party’s vice presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, said Wednesday.

She made her comments at a fundraiser billed as a “Virtual Conversation with the American Jewish Community with Senator Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff.” Emhoff, who is married to Harris, was introduced by Florida congressman Ted Deutch as the “next Jewish mensch," even though his children are Christian. 

“Our Jewish engagement team is fighting for every Jewish vote in every swing state,” Deutch said, according to a pool report by Daniel Strauss, a reporter for the Guardian newspaper. Strauss pandering to naive Jews, included Hebrew lettering for the word “mishpacha,” or family, in the pool report distributed by the campaign to national political reporters.

Emhoff who married two shiksas, one after another, told the group, “A Biden-Harris administration will stand strong against anti-Semitism. Period.”

She defended the disastrous nuclear deal.

 “Joe Biden actually took historic steps as vice president to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. The Obama-Biden administration imposed what were described as crippling multilateral sanctions which brought Iran to negotiations which paved the way for the JCPOA and prevented a nuclear armed Iran,” she said. Harris didn't talk about the billions of dollars in cash that Obama quietly slipped to the Iranian murderers. That money went to terrorists according to the pentagon.

Lying thru her camel teeth, Harris continued babbling  to the Jewish dummies:

“That nuclear deal, as we all know, blocked Iran’s pathways to a nuclear weapon and it was working as was verified by international inspectors and the U.S. intelligence community. But Donald Trump withdrew from it and he withdrew from it promising a better deal and a cowed Iran but instead Iran is revving up its nuclear activity and becoming more provocative.”

Whether the deal was “working” is also contentious, as critics said Iran was using the money from sanctions relief to make trouble regionally and advance its missile program. 

Harris said that if elected, “Our administration will hold Iran’s government accountable and rejoin a diplomatic agreement . And we will work with our allies, of course, to strengthen the Iran deal and push back Iran’s other destabilizing actions.”

Speakers at the Republican convention have touted the scrapping of the Iran deal and the moving of the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem as two of President Trump’s key foreign policy achievements. There are substantial numbers of Jewish voters in Florida and Pennsylvania, two battleground swing states in 2020. These foreign policy issues are also significant for many evangelical Christian voters.

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Israel's shekel hits nine-year record high against dollar

The Israeli shekel hit a nine-year record high against the dollar on Thursday, set at NIS 3.369 for $1.

The rate is the lowest for the dollar since June 2011, when the exchange rate for 1 dollar was set at 3.363.

This record is not only because the shekel is getting stronger, but more because the dollar has been weakening worldwide against the major currencies over the past few months as the US Fed prints money to cope with the coronavirus crisis.

"The jump of the shekel against the dollar strengthens the purchasing power of Israeli citizens, as their salaries are paid in shekel," said Gad Lior, senior analyst for Ynet.

According to Globes, the large number of Israelis who are normally travelling abroad in the summer and stayed at home in Israel this year because of the corona crisis and the travel restrictions is one of the main reasons why the shekel became so strong.

Prico Risk Management and Investments CEO Yossi Fraiman noted that "The Bank of Israel has recently been purchasing foreign currency to halt the appreciation of the shekel beneath NIS 3.40/$. The Bank of Israel was forced to buy billions of dollars and push up its foreign currency reserves to $157 billion. The Bank of Israel has decided to temporarily halt its intervention measures and to allow the dollar free movement and the dollar has dived sharply."

"The halt in the Bank of Israel's intervention in foreign currency trading could open the way for the shekel to appreciate to its historical low (but strong) level of NIS 3.20/$ in 2008," continued Fraiman.

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Zera Shimshon Parshas Ki Seitzah

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President Donald Trump Full Acceptance Speech at 2020 Republican National Convention

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Ex NBA Star Amar’e Stoudemire Completes His Conversion to Judaism

Yahoshafat ben Avraham 

Amar’e Stoudemire has officially finished his conversion to Judaism.

The former NBA star, who received Israeli citizenship in March 2019 while playing professional basketball there, announced Wednesday in a post on Instagram that his conversion to Judaism was complete.

Stoudemire said in the post that he had his final meeting with the beit din, or rabbinical court, and visited the mikvah, or ritual bath.

He said that his Hebrew name would be Yahoshafat Ben Avraham.

He announced more than two years ago that he was in the process of converting to Judaism.

Stoudemire identifies with the Hebrew Israelites, African-Americans who believe they are connected to the biblical Israelites, and observes Jewish holidays.

The 6-10 forward played for the New York Knicks and Phoenix Suns among other teams in a 16-year NBA career, during which he was named Rookie of the Year and made six All-Star teams. He also played for Hapoel Jerusalem from 2016 to 2019 and remains a part owner of the Israeli team.

In January, after playing three months for the Fujian Sturgeons in the Chinese Basketball Association, he signed with Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israel Basketball League. He was named Most Valuable Player of its championship game.

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Rabbi Aryeh Spero's Powerful Bracha Opening the Republican National Convention

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He Came Not to Debate Joe Biden But to Bury Him.

And on Day 4, there was no more Mr. Nice Guy!

Republicans spent the better part of three nights in their convention presenting softer and gentler sides of President Trump, but the president gets the final words and he came out Thursday in a fighting mood.

His acceptance speech detailed his successes and offered promises aplenty for a second term, but the emphasis and energy were committed to a scorched-earth attack on Joe Biden and the Democrats. Trump threw so many punches at his opponent that, had it been a real heavyweight boxing match, the referee would have stopped it in the middle rounds out of mercy.

Some samples: “This election will decide whether we save the American Dream, or whether we allow a socialist agenda to demolish our cherished destiny.”

Then later: “How can the Democrat Party ask to lead our country when it spends so much time tearing down our country?”

After saying Biden had buckled to the demands of the socialists in his party, Trump asked: “If he can’t stand up to them, how is he going to stand up for you.”

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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: ‘I’m Afraid American Jewry Is Making A Big, Big, Big Mistake’ For Injecting Themselves In Politics

I respect Rabbi Sacks but I think he knows absolutely nothing about the USA ....

someone commented :

Jews supporting Biden are on the wrong side of history. Jews, must support President Trump because of each and every promise he made and has kept. It would be one thing if he was now running against a “moderate”, where the country really wouldn’t sway too much one way or the other. But Biden and the Liberal Left are certified lunatics who want to destroy the very fabric of this country and turn us into a socialist state. I don’t think foreigners like the rabbi fully understand what is at stake here. It’s not about laying low and staying out of politics. It’s about the survival of America as a capitalist democratic republic, and not handing it over to to radical socialists.

 American Jewish rabbis are erring by endorsing — and opposing — President Donald Trump, according to Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi of Great Britain who said he has always studiously avoided showing an affinity for any particular candidate.

In a Jewish Telegraphic Agency interview, Sacks, who was chief rabbi from 1991 to 2013, said that even as he grew close and provided advice to political leaders of many stripes, he never endorsed any or allowed rabbis under his supervision to engage in political advocacy or electioneering.

“I can see that that is not the case in America. And I’m afraid American Jewry is making a big, big, big mistake,” Sacks said. “This is not a small thing. It’s a very, very big thing.”

Sacks made the comments in response to a question about Shmuel Kamenetsky, an influential haredi Orthodox rabbi who recently said that Jews should vote to reelect Trump out of gratitude. Another Orthodox rabbi, Aryeh Spero, blessed Trump and his reelection campaign this week at the Republican National Convention.

On the left, rabbis frequently wade into partisan political issues and even argue for specific political candidates in their personal capacity. (U.S. nonprofits, including houses of worship, face penalties if they engage in prohibited political activity as organizations.)

The consequence of blurring the line between politics and Judaism can be significant, Sacks said.

“You mix religion and politics, you get terrible politics and even worse religion,” he said, adding later, “I’m afraid I have absolutely not the slightest shred of sympathy for anyone who, as a rabbi, tells people how to vote.”

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Kayleigh McEnany’s Heartfelt Personal Story at the Republican National Convention

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Watch Some Of President Trump's Funniest Battles

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