Reply To: Anti semitism poem

The ramban explains that galus is not a place, but a state. Sin hashem shaleim veaim hakiseo shalem, there is no gilui shechina, nor kovod shomayim..

in mussaf we say mepnei chataeinu GALINU mayartzeinu, even though in the times of chazal there definitely were people living in eretz yisroel.

Geography has nothing to do with it…. it’s a spiritual state of subjugation. The brisker rov zy”a used to say that far from being the aschalta degeulah, the state is the sof galus…

The state only funded torah because menachem begin – the closest thing we’ve ever had to a religious prime minister – was very friendly to and respective of charedim, especially rav shach.

Many charedim, including my rebbeim in bais brisk, refuse any and all money from the government. That was an old machlokes.

It doesn’t mitigate any of the atrocities mentioned above.