Reply To: Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz vs Satmar Rebbe

QUOTE 6:

“And he [Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz] expressed
amazement that anyone who considered himself
a good Jew could possibly go seven days without
thinking of some way in which he could improve
the lot of settlers in Eretz Yisrael
or otherwise improve the Land.”

SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of
Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, the architect of
Torah in America (chapter 25, page 322)
by Yonoson Rosenblum for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001,
based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965

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QUOTE 7:

“He [Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz] once said that
even though Eretz Yisrael is controlled by non-religious
and anti-religious Jews, one must still admit the
good that HaKadosh Baruch Hu had done,
in causing the gates to the Land to be open
once again to Jewish immigration.”

SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of
Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, the architect of
Torah in America (chapter 26, page 331, footnote 4,
heard from Rabbi Yehoshua Schiff)
by Yonoson Rosenblum for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001,
based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965

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QUOTE 8:

“… he [Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz] also explained why
the secular Zionists might have been chosen to play
such a fateful role in the history of the Jewish people.

In every Jew, he explained, there is a spark of kedushah
(holiness) – dos pintele Yid – which is his inheritance from
the Avos [Patriarchs]. Every Jew is both an individual
and as part of the collective body of Israel.

As long as he does not sever his bonds to the nation,
that little spark is not extinguished,
no matter how numerous his sins.

Divine Providence might have arranged that the secular
Zionists play a major role in the redemption of Eretz Yisrael
precisely in order to maintain their connection to Klal Yisrael.”

SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of
Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, the architect of
Torah in America (chapter 26, page 335)
by Yonoson Rosenblum for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001,
based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965