UJM writes: “The Maharal writes that even if the Goyim force us wuth torturous death to violate the Oath, we should rather submit to torturous death than violate them.
I can’t blame you because this is a mainstream Satmar point. However, it is a clear misrepresentation of the Maharal’s words, and Rabbi Hartman notes this in his footnotes.
What the Maharal is saying if that even if the Galus gets this hard that the nations are killing us, we still should not violate the oaths. This is NOT the same as saying that the nations are begging us to violate them!
This misquote is used to portray the Maharal as saying that even if the nations vote for a Jewish state, then by accepting it we are still violating the oath.
The only benefit of this misquote is that it caused Satmar to treat the Maharal as a hero, and therefore helped promote and print Maharal. For me, that’s a fair trade.