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September 14, 2016 4:08 pm at 4:08 pm #618380mentsch1Participant
I just noticed a thread with 300+ comments that (for the most part) was a spirited discussion of the pros and cons of our current presidential candidates.
I personally don’t believe that the next president is up to us. The Rebbonei Shel Olam has already decided who it will be. If that is true then why get so invested in the candidates? Why the emotion? why the hate?
I don’t get it.
Not to mention that the current two choices are possibly the biggest liars to ever vie for the office. Their lies are indisputable, so shouldn’t it be our role as jews who value the concept of “tocho k’baro” to express our disdain (or at least indifference) rather than stand behind these candidates?
September 14, 2016 4:14 pm at 4:14 pm #1179747Mashiach AgentMemberbetter to vote for the better of the 2 which we would all say trump then not vote at all & give 1 more chance of winning to the bad one.
never in my life heard of such a lying & corrupt person like hillary
September 14, 2016 4:22 pm at 4:22 pm #1179748dovrosenbaumParticipantWe’re commanded to vote for those who advance morals.
Rav Avigdor Miller, zt”l, was adamant about not voting for pro-toeva candidates, which would de facto mean that we cannot vote for Democrats
September 14, 2016 4:24 pm at 4:24 pm #1179749RedlegParticipantHey, MA! Maybe we should just vote for the Satan. Why settle for the lesser evil?
September 14, 2016 4:29 pm at 4:29 pm #1179750☕ DaasYochid ☕Participantnever in my life heard of such a lying & corrupt person like hillary
I have – his name is Donald Trump.
September 14, 2016 4:32 pm at 4:32 pm #1179751☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantWe’re commanded to vote for those who advance morals.
Please don’t fool yourself into thinking that translate into a vote for Trump, the most publicly immoral candidate to ever run for president.
September 14, 2016 4:47 pm at 4:47 pm #1179752zahavasdadParticipantRav Avigdor Miller, zt”l, was adamant about not voting for pro-toeva candidates, which would de facto mean that we cannot vote for Democrats
For the record both candidates basically agree on this issue
September 14, 2016 5:06 pm at 5:06 pm #1179753mentsch1ParticipantMA
I disagree
when two candidates are the antithesis of emes, shouldn’t we vote for neither?
I would suggest the proper hashkafic thing to do in this election is either not to vote. Or, if you want to make a case that we need to vote because it’s important hishtadlus for the frum to be seen as a voting block, then vote for a third candidate.
Perhaps, write in your vote for Mashiach?
September 14, 2016 5:08 pm at 5:08 pm #1179754Ex-CTLawyerParticipantMashiach Agent
Who gave you authority to speak for all members of the coffee room? Your statement “better of the 2 which we would all say trump” is a LIE. Yet you in the same post accuse Secretary Clinton of lying. How ironic.
You don’t speak for me, I DON’T think Trump is the better of the two.
September 14, 2016 5:34 pm at 5:34 pm #1179755TheMiddleOfMemberIgnoring both candidates in the race, if we as a people want to keep our religious rights in this country, we should do everything we can to make sure Clinton does not get elected, as her appointee to the Supreme Court would no doubt be liberal, and tip the entire court to the left, reversing many decisions and making many new ones against the First (and Second) Amendment and freedom of religion.
September 14, 2016 6:46 pm at 6:46 pm #1179756mentsch1ParticipantTheMiddle
My original point was that (I believe) there is nothing any of us can do to make sure any candidate will win.
Decisions of this magnitude are outside of our hishtadlus. Your ballot does not count, The winner has already been decided by the R’BSHO.
If that is the case, shouldn’t we vote hashkafically and not vote for either candidate?
September 14, 2016 7:25 pm at 7:25 pm #1179757dovrosenbaumParticipantKillary will put in liberal activist judges who will continue to push for toeva. Trump will put in conservative judges. You’re wrong.
September 14, 2016 9:22 pm at 9:22 pm #1179758benignumanParticipantmentsch1,
You can vote for a third-party candidate or write-in a vote to show your lack of support for the two main candidates.
September 14, 2016 9:54 pm at 9:54 pm #1179759Sam2Participantdovrosenbaum: The fight against gay marriage is over. The religious lost. All candidates support gay marriage now. Ted Cruz didn’t, kinda, but he was it. You don’t remember Trump saying how he was pro-LGBT at the convention?
September 15, 2016 1:13 am at 1:13 am #1179760SparklyMembertrue vote for trump!!!
September 15, 2016 3:10 am at 3:10 am #1179761TheMiddleOfMember@mentsch1 the outcome of the election may be out of our hands, but it is our hishtadlus to vote. Who to vote for, however, according to daas Torah, it really depends who you ask. I’m not sure what you mean by vote hashkafically and not vote. I believe that Rav Moshe said we are mechuyiv to vote, and it is our responsibility as a citizen to do our part. That is our histadlus.
September 15, 2016 3:11 am at 3:11 am #1179762TheMiddleOfMemberDo you believe that we should vote the canditate we believe is best or the candidate our Local Orthodox Rabbi recommends?
September 15, 2016 3:50 am at 3:50 am #1179763SparklyMemberTheMiddleOf – the lor. go trump!!
September 15, 2016 5:09 am at 5:09 am #1179764american_yerushalmiParticipantNeither candidate represents the acme of moral rectitude, as someone so aptly put it, the choice is between Achashverosh or Vashti …. Nevertheless, and particularly in view of Rabbi Miller zt”l’s opinion, the choice should be for the candidate who espouses less immorality. On this matter, the candidate’s own words speak for themselves.
September 15, 2016 3:57 pm at 3:57 pm #1179765mentsch1ParticipantThe middle
I personally don’t ask my LO Rabbi who to vote for, nor do I believe that in chutz l’aretz there is any logic in even asking that question to a Rav.
for several reasons
1) I don’t know how old you are, but when I started voting in the eighties, almost every LO rabbi (including in the Chasidic communities) voted democrat. I held like Rav Miller, and never voted democrat for president because I was worried about the supreme court and various social issues that recently became the law of the land. How these other Rabbunim came up with their view, still eludes me
2)As someone else pointed out, almost all candidates these days are the worse of two evils, so how can a Rav pasken to tell you to vote for someone with values that we don’t hold of? I don’t believe any Rav should give an opinion on presidential candidates when you have poor candidates. On second thought why should a Rav have any opinion on politics ever in chutz l’aretz? it’s all sheker
September 15, 2016 4:16 pm at 4:16 pm #1179766mentsch1ParticipantThemiddle
As to whether I agree with voting for who you think is best;
As I said already I believe a person should vote within the framework of proper hashkafa.
The interesting question now is, does it matter anymore?
Rav Miller’s psak was before every candidate fell into the LGBT camp. Now that every candidate no longer has values that I can believe in, what is the right derech?
You can argue many things, maybe now we have to vote for the candidate that is more pro-Israel or less loved by the LGBT.
But I do believe that the answer is more fluid now than it was just a few years ago.
Personally, I believe the proper answer is to not vote for sheker. Do a protest vote and maybe, just maybe, future candidates will get the hint that we still care (a little ) for personal integrity.
September 15, 2016 4:17 pm at 4:17 pm #1179767zahavasdadParticipantMany Rabbonim in Brooklyn had no problem meeting with Christine Quinn and having those photos put on YWN
September 15, 2016 5:01 pm at 5:01 pm #1179768dovrosenbaumParticipantYou have to look at it in terms of least damage.
Trump will appoint conservative judges. He will also destroy terrorism, curb radical Islam, and will support Israel.
Hillary will continue in the same street J Street trajectory, more concessions to Iran, more Muslim immigrants, etc.
Also, in terms of morality, look at Lo Tirtzach. Benghazi, Vince Foster, etc. should all be sufficient proof that Killary should be on death row now.
September 15, 2016 5:38 pm at 5:38 pm #1179769benignumanParticipantdovrosenbaum,
I don’t know how you define “conservative” judges, but I am pretty sure that Trump will not appoint judges based on any ideological or legal-philosophy basis. How will Trump “destroy terrorism”? Bush, Obama and many other governments have been trying for the last 15 years and it is still here. Frankly Hillary will be just as tough on terrorism and she will be far more rational in attacking it than Trump.
Benghazi, while bad, was not murder on Hillary’s part (or Obama’s) it was neglect and then an attempt to cover-up/minimize the neglect. Vince Foster was not murdered.
Saying Hillary should be on death row is reprehensible and probably should not have been let through by the moderators.
September 15, 2016 5:50 pm at 5:50 pm #1179770TheMiddleOfMember@Sparkly I’d like to hear your logic for that (tha LOR, not Trump, I agree on that.)
@mentsch1 I agree. You make two very good points. Every Rabbi has a different take on it, and unless THE undisputed gadol hador says something on it, it’s impossible to know what daas Torah is. So at this point, it is really within our hands to choose not who the most moral candidate is, but rather who would be the better presidant for our country, for us, and for Israel, and whatever other issues you care about.
September 15, 2016 8:01 pm at 8:01 pm #1179771dovrosenbaumParticipantThe only way to stop terrorism is through a war of attrition. You have to bomb them into oblivion. Maybe use a nuke.
I can’t engage liberal Democrats or liberal “Republicans” in discussion. It’s fruitless. If you can’t see that Hillary is evil, you have no moral compass.
October 7, 2018 3:08 pm at 3:08 pm #1600073👑RebYidd23ParticipantHave you ever considered that you might be the one who is wrong?
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