Rabbi Yitzchak Yehuda Yeruslavski |
Very very interesting ......
Let me let you guys into a secret..
I grew up in Crown Heights ...yes on Eastern Parkway ... and saw the Rebbe all the time ... and even saw the rebbe's mother, Chana, and saw his mother-in-law who lived on top of 770..
I remember his meetings with the then President of Israel, Zalmar Shazar, and remember when he met Menachem Begin and other Israeli leaders...I marched in the Lag Be'omer parades and a good chunk of my very own family are Chabad!..... I'm all for Chabad...
Having said this.... I believe Chabad should stay away from this entire controversy... It should not be any of their business ...
Why? But Why? ..... DIN you crazy?? Did quarantine infect your brains?..... Why?
Didn't the previous rebbe prohibit Israel to give back even an inch of land?
I don't know if my readers know this.... but Chabad's policy vis a vis the State of Israel is to the right of Satmar....
Satmar thinks they have the license to "hate Israel," little do they know that they and Chabad share a common theology..
Yup .... more extreme than Satmar in their writings (I will post about this in a later post) .. the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe was totally against establishing a State... and even the last Rebbe never ever recognized the State of Israel!
Yes he embraced their leaders and loved them but was adamantly against a State..
Chabad philosophy is to love every Jew even Zionists but that doesn't mean they will ever embrace a State...
Yes... some serve in the army ... but those are a minority and Chabad is totally against anyone of their chassidim joining the IDF and the rebbe even wrote a letter to that effect.
Just recently this policy came into forefront when the Chabad Rabbinical Court in Israel forbade one of their Shuluchiot, Chani Lifshitz, to light the torch-lighting ceremony on Yom Hatzmaot!
She was totally humiliated and had to write an apology to the Jewish people living in Israel
Chabad will participate in all crazy ceremonies in every other country ...even in Napal ... but when it comes to a ceremony honoring a country that is open to ALL Jews, Chabad will not participate ..... because that is their mesorah, even if that mesorah was before the State became a fact ...
The last Lubavitcher Rebbe was a realist and understood that the State of Israel is a fact but couldn't bring himself to defy Chabad tradition and so he couldn't embrace the State and wouldn't allow his followers in Israel to protect the Jewish people by having them join the IDF...
Therefore, since they do not recognize the State of Israel, their opinion should carry no weight ...
I personally will not blame today's chabadnikas on their mesorah or even question it ...
however, someone who denies reality and cannot recognize it, shouldn't play a part in it's fate
and Netanyahu should take the letter from Rabbi Yitzchok Yeruslavski and burn it in next year's chumitz, maybe in a ceremony ....
I personally will not blame today's chabadnikas on their mesorah or even question it ...
however, someone who denies reality and cannot recognize it, shouldn't play a part in it's fate
and Netanyahu should take the letter from Rabbi Yitzchok Yeruslavski and burn it in next year's chumitz, maybe in a ceremony ....
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