I'm alway amazed, especially now that I live in the Holy Land, at Chareidim who will bring Gemarras and Midroshim to delegitimize the State of Israel.....
Twisting the words of our holy Chazal to support their ignorant totally irrelevant ideas that the Jewish people don't deserve to even live in Eretz Yisrael!
They argue relentlessly in face of an opposite reality defending the archaic views of their leaders.
Just last week I met a Satmarer Chasid in Yerushlayim, someone who I know for many years, who outwardly appears like a devout chasid, a serious frum learned Jew.....and who came to Israel from the USA to visit some unknown rebbele !
During our discussion he suddenly looks at the beautiful new modern infrastructure and remarks.... "You see? the Rebbe Was Right!"
I ask "which rebbe????????" He says there is and was only one Rebbe, and that's R' Yoel of Satmar.?"
I naively ask him ..." in what way was he right?"
He answers: "Don't you see ... the Jews living here walking around without Yarlmulkas and eating treif."
I'm looking at the beautiful new buildings, the Rakevet Kal, the new streets ....15,000 Avreichim learning a few blocks away in the Mir, beautiful new Batei Midrashim every single block ....and yes ...even a massive Satmar structure in Yerusahlayim ....and all he can see is that there are people walking the streets without yarmulkas.
I tell him:
"Correct me if I'm wrong.... but I remember learning that Moshe Rabeinu had a Jew killed because he was a "Mechallel Shabbos!"
He says, "what are you getting at?"
I say ... one minute .... .... "Didn't the Jews who saw Krias Yam Suf with thousands of miracles performed, make the Eigal?
and didn't Moshe decide to bring down the Luchos at the same time anyway.?"
He says ;;;; "Hey... wait one minute ....he broke them....no???"
I say;;;;
"Hashem told him before he took the luchos that they were making an Eigal, he took those Luchis knowing full well that they made an Eigal and yet he felt that he should bring them down anyway!?
He broke them for different reasons...he didn't take Luchus that Hashem created to break them ...that was not his intention ..absolutely not ...;he felt that they deserved the Torah anyway ....and he took the luchos to give them to Klall Yisrael ... He decided that despite the Eigal he was going to give them the Torah whose majority of mitzvois apply only in Eretz Yisroel..
yes... he took them down to the people who just made an eigal!!!
Ok ... he says ... what's your point???
My point is ... I say ....
despite the guy being "Mechallel Shabbos" despite the Jewish people making the Eigal ....despite all this
Moshe still begged HKB"H to allow him to go to Eretz Yisrael ....not by himself ....
no ......but with the Jewish people .....yes ... even those who sinned, yes ...even those who weren't perfect"
"Tell me my friend ....what do you say about the Ramban who says that "Yishuv Eretz Yisroel is a Mitzvas esseh Me'doiriseh bizman hazeh.?"
He says .... "but the Rambam didn't count it as one of the Mitzvois....?"
I answer: "He may not have counted it, but 75% of the Mitzvois he does count can only be performed in Israel"
and I add, "that same Rambam says that the 3rd Bais Ha'mikdash will not come down from Heaven but must be built by humans ,,,,,and how about the fact that the Rambam visited the Har Habayis ... ????
You still want to quote the Rambam..... ?"
"and do you know that Ezra and Nechemia begged the Jewish people to make aliyah from Bavel right after the Purim story?
Who was living in Eretz Yisroel at that time ..... What kind of Jews?"
The Jews living in Eretz Yisroel at that time were worse than the Zionists... they were assimilated Jews, Ovdei Avodah Zara.... yet despite that, Ezra and Nechemia begged the Jews to make Aliyah ... and cursed those who remained in Baval " ....
Now,,,, in the year 2019 there are maybe a minyan Jews living in Baval and miracle of miracles, the majority of the world's Jews now live in the country that you despise....
I would rather live in Eretz Yisrael with Jews who are Michallel Shabbos, than live in Williamsburg with the fake Chassidim ...
so tell me , how was your rebbe right??? Didn't he say in 1956 and then repeated this prediction in 1967, that he believes there will be no frum Jews in the Zionist State in 20 years.....?"
Here comes a goy..... President Donald Trump, who sees thru all the garbage .... and does what not one Satmarer Rebbe ever did...
recognize publically a piece of Israel that belongs forever to the Jewish people....
Now all the Satmar newspapers together with their buddies the Arab press condemn Trump's recognition of the Golan Heights ...
The Satmars keep great company...
