The World Zionist Congress is holding elections and you can read all about it below!
Rabbi Hoffman wants you to vote for eretzhakodesh.org! This Eretz Hakodesh is against Yeshiva Bochrim going to the army and I'm not sure if it even recognizes The State of Israel! I may be wrong on this one!
But what I want to point out is Rabbi Hoffman's Loshon Hara on a country that is the home of the majority of the world's Jewish People! He is pandering to the Satmar/Yeshivishe anti-Zionists (not realizing that he will never ever be accepted by them) and he writes that:
"The Zionist pioneers who first tilled the sacred soil of Eretz Yisroel came with calloused hands and iron resolve, ready to transform swampland into gardens and deserts into fields. Yet in their fervor to build a homeland, they neglected the very idea and essence of who we are and of what made this land holy – our Holy Torah."
Hey rabbi! Whose fault is that??
Harav Yisachar Shlomo Teichtal in his Sefer Eim Habanim Semeicha put that blame squarely on the shoulders of the European Gedoilim! He writes that the Gedoilim were wrong not to partner with the Zionists, and he praises the very pioneers that Hoffman denigrates!
"Today's pioneers have caused the settlement to grow and expand, and it is impossible to retract or negate their actions, for we benefit from them. Therefore, even if transgressions were committed in the process, the mitzvah was still fulfilled in all its strength and vigor in both a revealed and esoteric sense! Thus, it is clear that the Omnipresent desires the work of today's builders and accepts their efforts before His glorious throne with love and abounding affection. This is true even if they act sinfully and even if they do not fulfill God's will when it comes to other mitzvot of the Torah (God forbid)."
Rav Teichtal writes:
"The holy Zohar states that even sinners of Israel hold on to the right side and are rooted in holiness. It is, therefore, forbidden to degrade or curse them.. On the contrary, it is a mitzvah to love them and bring them near."
Rabbi Hoffman, to bolster his agenda brings up a sad history of the Yaldei Teheran and the Yaldei Teiman, there was no need to do this, to push his "vote" agenda!
It was pure Loshon Hara and doesn't add one thing to his promoting the Eretz Hakodesh vote!
Rabbi Wein recently in a talk in Yerushalaim said that that history was over 80 years ago and that fight is long over, "as the State of Israel is now the quintessential Home for Torah despite obstacles! "
Hoffman foolishly writes:
"We can, however, ensure that such things do not happen again."
I have news for Hoffman, the chances of that happening in Israel is very close to zero, it has a greater chance of happening in the USA, where thousands upon thousands are leaving yiddishkeit and assimilating!
Then the "chuchim" writes:
"This was not Uganda. This was not Argentina or any other territory once considered by the Zionist Congress as a place for Jews. This was Eretz Yisroel—the Holy Land—"
This just quoted statement was sarcastic! But what Hoffman the "Israel Denigrator" doesn't realize is that Skver, Kiryat Yoel, and Lakewood took this Zionist Congress idea and made it into a reality! There is no difference between the Uganda Idea considered at the First Zionist Congress and what the Skverer, Satmar and R' Aron Kotler did in their towns!
I can really take his entire article apart as it is riddled with narishkeitin, but we are in Chodosh Adar and I'm still on a high and I don't want his stupidity to bring me down spiritually!
Remember the Yaldei Teheran and Yaldei Teiman and Vote!
