Reply To: Anti semitism poem

Let me get this straight…the zionists abandoning jews who were not both young and of their philosophy, cooperating with Nazis to save their own skin and let the European frum jews literally burn..

Are you actually comparing that – even facetiously – to the 3 oaths? You’re not at all bothered by that murderous act? America would have been a viable destination had the zionist leadership said “no! Only to Palestine!”

Who says israel would have been safe? Rommel was 2 days away from eretz yisroel. If not for how the frummer responded, they could have wiped out everyone in a matter of hours.

As to dismissing pashut pshat with laitzonus…. let’s just read the bible. It says that they thought of themselves as grasshoppers in the eyes of the canaanim. They said they are stronger than us. They were afraid of fighting them. Yes, there was an element of ingratitude, but let’s not forget the expression they all shared when they said chazal hu mimenu. That is the inverse of kochi veotzem yadi, it is the belief that your strength – or lack thereof – is kf consequence and should dictate your behavior. It is the belief that it is not Hashem who gives us the koach laasos chayil, but rather our “uzi”, an aptly named israeli firearm. My point was that the meraglim had that element in them, just as the zionists do. They were given a mitzvah, and they should have had the bitachon of the chashmonaim and went to fight anyway.

I’m interested in going “home” when I go to the beis medrash. The chasam sofer says that avira de’ara, (my screename!) Applies in batei medrash. The Torah is my home, and it is portable throughout the generations and the exiles. If Israel fell apart tomorrow, those of you who invested your identity and judaism in jt would be crushed… most would perhaps go off the derech entirely.

We would simply observe and continue to march on, whether we live in eretz yisroel under Israeli, American, UN, or ottoman rule, or if we live in chutz laaretz. I feel home because I have Torah. Sure, I want moshiach to come so we can have the beis hamikdash and have the world acknowledge Hashem, but in the meantime, I can serve Him just fine until that time comes, bemhayroh veyameinu amen.