In this week's Parshas Korach, we see a sudden turn of events in reference to Dasan V'aviram. When Moshe goes to talk to them, to try to convince them to coax them to separate from the "Gadol Hador" Korach, they utter words right out of the Satmar handbook Al Hagilah V'al Hatmirah ...they say with proudness
"Lo naaleh, we will not make aliya!"
"Lo naaleh, we will not make aliya!"
The Satmar Rebbe R' yoel z"l did not allow any Satmars to make Aliya pre-WW2, even when the cursed Nazis were nipping at the Hungarian/Roumanian borders ...... and get this, even after WW2, having learned that 6 million Jews were annihilated, he was adamant that they remain in Chutz L'aaretz ,unless they had special permission.
So what actually happened that turned Dasan V'aviram to become ardent Satmars?
They attached themselves to then "Gadol Hador".... Korach!
There were other Gedolim (Moshe and Aaron, Yehoshuah, Kalev) that advocated going to Eretz Yisroel, and it mattered not who lived there....even if Eretz Yisroel was surrounded by enemies; Ameleik lived in the Negev, the Chittes, the Yevusites, the Amorites lived on the mountain, the Canaanites lived by the sea and by the banks of Jordan...but all the Gedolim really wanted was the gift that Hashem gave us .... Eretz Yisroel.
but they, Dasan V'aviram listened to their "Gadol" who even though their Gadol made absolutely no sense and spoke and 'ploppeled" naarishkeiten, they went with their "Daas Torah" and said
"Lo Naaleh .....Nope ....No Aliya for us"
"Lo Naaleh .....Nope ....No Aliya for us"
We now know the catastrophic results in both situations!