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Coffee & Dash, they used to have Jordanian citizenship but Hussein revoked it when he renunced Jordanian claims. They are now stateless.
Vochindik, according to Ramban in his sefer hamitzvot there is a postitve Tora mitzva to establish a state and a prohibition to give any part of it to another People even at the cost of war.
Himmel, it goes back further than the Eida HaChareidit. It was used to describe anyone who is shomer mitzvot from the pasuk (Yeshayahu 66:5) “… ????? ????? …”.
“Goy” is Hebrew for “nation”. We are also a goy – a goy kadosh. “Gentile” comes from the Latin translation of “Goyim”(“Gentium”).”Ben/Bat Noach” or “Noahide” are also acceptable. “Sheigetz” and “Shiksa” are, however, very offensive as they come from “shaketz”.
I live in Israel and minahg EY is that no one wears them as the Gra and the Bet Yosef did not
Old man, Rav Solooveichik paskened that way as does Rav Lichtenstein. However, most poskim disagree.
I just heard in the name of Rav Neventzahl that a Goy can put up a sukka and even the shach. As for sitting in it, if he can even be part of it (if we can be sure that he won’t walk away) then surely he can simply be inside it.
Sam, the Gra says that there is only one machloket between the Zohar and the Gemara (whether one can walk past a person davening the Amida on the side – the Gemara is meikal, the Zohar is machmir). If someone thinks he found another either he didn’t understand the Gemara or he didn’t understand the Zohar of he didn’t understand either. As for inyanim, the Arizal is very strict about not weaqring black clothing on Shabbat. However, Rav Mordechai Eliahu says that today it is davka apppropriate as people today consider black clothing to be sharp and not the color of mourning. So it could be that teh issue of a non-Jew (during Chol HaMoed – Yom Tov is a halachic problem)could depend on the elvel of the local non-Jews, the relationship with him, etc. If excluding him will cause animosity then it is prohibited to exclude him for obvious reasons (BTW, the reason he cannot put up the shach is because he is not shayach to the mitzva. However, it seems that if we can be sure that he will not walk away he can be a dofen – Mishna Berura 630:55)
Shein, there is no problem of mesira where someone is harming the public (Rema Choshen Mishpat 388:11).According to many poskim this is even more true in a democracy where Jews are equal citizens (according to Rabbi Herschel Shachter such countries are considered partnerships between Jews and non-Jews).If the person is called as a witness there is an aditional factor that refusing to testify is a chillul Hashem Moreover, Rav Moshe (Iggrot Moshe, vol. VIII: Orakh Hayyim part 5: Siman 9:11) draws a dsitinction between a private citizen (who may not even be required by secular law to report a crime) and a government officer.
Shein, on the contrary, being a Criminal Court judge is much easier because the secular authorities have the power to impose extra-halachic penalties in order to keep public order (Bet Yosef, citing the Responsum of the Rashba, Hoshen Mishpat 388).
Rav Scheinberg zatzal used to play loud music to prevent himself from think about Tora when he showered.
Absolutely. However, it is also an obligation to teach secular subjects (Kiddushin 30b and Rambam Introduction to Moreh Nevuchim, Magen Avraham Orech Chaim 156:1-2)
The worst anti-religious were the yiddishist Bundists. Let the dead language rest in pieces (considering all of the different dialects).
On the contrary, it is a Tora obbligation to establish a Jewish state in EY (Ramban Sefer HaMitzvot). This is the definition of yamot haMashiach (Rambam Hilchot Melachim 12:2). As for the Shalosh Shevuot, they are aggadata not halacha (see Rambam “Letter to Yemen”) and are ignored by all of the codes. Even if they were one binding they are no longer either because they were only for 1,000 years (Rav Chaim Vital) or because the Goyim gave permission at the San Remo Conference (Rav Meir Simcha) or because they violated their oath not to persecute us too much on several occasions (Shir HaShirim Rabba 2[7]:1).
Also they need the Shas ministers’ votes.Eli Yishai is a member of the security cabinet so his ote is especially important.
Health, on the contrary, selling individual Goyim land in EY does not obviate our sovereignty. However, turning over the entire country is a bittul of the mitzva to conquer EY. Moroever, as the government does not own the land but is only a caretaker for Am Yisrael until the ownership of the nachalot can be established such a transaction would have no force or effect.
Rambam says the opposite. In fact, we do not even want them to serve us (Hilchot Melachim 12:4).
According to Kabbala one should wear at least four white garments and definitely not black (Shaar HaKavenot, Inyan Rechitzat Panav, Yadav v’Raglav d”h gam tzarich adam lilbosh bigdei lavan; Ben Ish Chai Halachot Year 2 Lech Lecha 18; Kaf HaChaim 262:26). However, the pashtanim disagree (Biur Halacha 262:2 d”h begadim naim and see Shabbat 147a).
Yserbius,
1. According to Rav Soloveichik almoist all Jews would have assimilated in the national depression following the Holocaust if not for the State.
2. On the contrary, it is a Tora obligation according to Ramban (Sefer HaMitzvot) and according to Rambam (Hilchot Megilla veChanuka 3:1-3) it is at least a very good thing.
3. Most gedolim hold that we are in the time of Ikveta d’Mashicha.
Health, you have a shining future in stand-up. However, don’t give up your day job just yet.
Health, on the contrary, Turkey’s Jews live in constant fear and must toe the government line. In any case, having Turkey take over Israel c”v is an issur d’Oraita. Ramban is explicit that we must go to war rather than do this and Rambam stronly implies it. What you are proposing is simply insanity.
Apushatayid, nobody wants to dismantle the yeshivot c”v. People just want all those who are registered but not learning, and especially the shababnikim, to do their share and iy”H turn into productive citizens.
Health, according to the statistics I have seen there are approximately 800K frum Jews outside Israel. This equals more or less 15 Knesset seats. This would definitely tip the balance. BTW, Turkey is already a fascist state.
Sam, you are confusing the Medina with the government. When bahab fell on Yom HaAtzmaut Rav Tzvi Yehuda would say both Hallel and selichot. Hallel for the State and selichot for the government. The solution is for frum Jews to make aliya and vote for change.
Health, and you are motzi laaz on every soldier who davens for Hashem’s help.As for kol isha, we went through this before. There are heterim. What is the hetewr for someone who can to refuse to defend Am Yisrael?
MW13, Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, in a teshuva regarding the status of Eilat (the decensored version which iy”H will be published soon) calls the State “malchut”. As I previously posted, being that Eli Yishai is a member of the Security Cabinet this presumably is also Rav Ovadia’s view. Moreover, the Netziv in Haamek Devar on the mitzva of apointing a king says that elected representatives would have the right to declare war.
Health, how about Rambam (Hilchot Melachim 7:1)? What about all of the aveirot one can do anywhere? What about businessman who calls himself “self-made”.
Nanny, not good to frum Jews? What about alll of the money given to yeshivot and kollelim? How much do other governments give?
Chazal were not happy with people who disinherited OTD children as Hashem wanted children to inherit as He set forth and the child might have a BT child (Baba Batra 133b and Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat 282:1).Rav Moshe says ( Igrot Moshe C.M. 2:50)that if the son has completely left Judaism it is unlikely that he will have observant descendants but this may no longer be true.On the other hand, disinheriting the child might make the situation worse.
How many times do I have to post that it is an obligation to establish a state in EY and go to war if necessary to conquer it (Ramban Sefer HaMitzvot)? As for the government, with all its faults it has the support of the people and this gives it the din of melech according to Rav Kook and all those who follow him (and being that Eli Yishai sits in the security cabinet I presume that Rav Ovadia also agrees).
Englishman, which?
2scents, so were Rav Kook and Rav Tzvi Yehuda. So was Rav Soloveichik. Read “Torat Eretz Yisrael” (in English) by Rav David Samson.
Englishman, “difficult” is far from “yehareg uval yaavor” and is not even “assur”. It means that a rav must consider the situation very carefully before allowing it.However, he definitely opens the door.
In NY they say “If I want to have a lousy Shabbat I’ll have a lousy Shabbat”.
Health, it used to be a nickel. Inflation has sudsdenly picked up. The point is that you are making the Zionists (who are among the victims)scapegoats for the crimes of our enemies. This is the same tactic used by Holocaust deniers/explaners.
Greatest, Rav Aharon Soloveichik, Rav Yaakov Kaminetzky, Rav Herschel Schachter and Rav Yitzchak Yaakov Fuchs are not poskim “of note”?
Health, Rav Chaim Vital, Rav Meir Simcha and Rav Soloveichik say that they are no longer in force either because they wer only for 1,000 years or because the San Remo Conference revoked them or because Hashem has called. See also Shir HaShirim Rabba, 2[7]1that persecuting us “too much” (e.g. the Crusades, which started approximately 1,000 years after the Churban as well as the Chmielnitzky massacres and the Holocaust)brings on the end of days. As for making the Medina the scapegoat for all of the world’s ills, we all know who were the newspaper editors who used that against the Jewish people.
Greatest, it has been declared the opposite by other gedolei Yisrael.
How do we know that Yaakov Avinu wore a kippa? Vetze Yaakov. Would Yaakov go out without a kippa?
Health, that’s right.Blame the victims.You are motzi diba al haAretz and motzi shem ra on millins of Jews.
I know a few.
Yentingyenta, according to Rabbi J. David Cohen Rav Aharon Soloveichik allowed it lechatchilla if it is only for a brief period. As for the wording, this would depend on the poerson and you would need a great deal of siata d’Shemaya to say the right thing to the right person.
on the ball, Rav Yaakov Kaminetzky and Rav Hershel Shachter are meikal, at least in the situation under consideration. Rav Fuch (Halichot Bat Yisrael) seems to think that it is only a chumra. Rav Moshe also mentions that some are meikal as they hold that there is no affection involved. Against that, one must weigh the dangers of causing embarassment, anger, and/or hatred as well as the mitzva of parnassa, especially if one has a family.
Health, “Just because it’s not mentioned in those Seforim doesn’t mean it’s Mutter”? Are you saying that anything not mentined in the Halachic codes is assur? It is obvious that all of the poskim knew about the Shalosh Shevuot. The fact they ignored them shows that they did not consider them Halacha but Aggadata.
Vochindik, with all due respect to the gadlut of the Maharal, he is a commentator and baal machshava not a posek. Besides, the Shlalosh Shevuot were said before the destruction of the Bayit Rishon. Apparently Ezra either discounted them or thought that the time that Hashem calls had come. In nay case, Rav Mei Simcha and Rav Soloveichik consider them to no longer be of any force or effect (if they ever were) as I have posted several times.
Health, you are evading the question! In which major halchic work (Rif, Rambam, Rosh, Tur, Shulchan Aruch, Nosei Keilim, etc.) are they paskened? What about Ramban’s sttaement in his Sefer HaMitzvot about it being a Tora obligation in our time to conquewr EY? What about Rav Meir Simcha’s statement that the San Remo Conference revoked them and Rav Soloveichik’s statement that the time that Hashem calls has occurred? What about the fact that the Satmar Rebbe himself admitted that he was a daat yachid?
The State is innately kadosh as it is the realization of the Tora obligation to establish Jewish sovereignty in EY as stated explicitly by Ramban. It is the obligation of every Jew who is able to make aliya and take part in building the State, each according to his individual talents. Those Zionists who are religious or traditional want the State to be based on Jewish law whereas those who are not, with the exception of a small minority, want it to be generally based on Jewish principles.
Ask your rav if you can shake hands in this situation. There are poskim who are meikal. If you say it is against Orthodox Judaism you will have a problem if the next guy is an Orthodox Jew who relies on the heterim.
The word “chareidi” appears in Tanach (Yeshayu 66:5) and means “those who shake in fear (at Hashem’s word)”. Originally it referred to all shomrei mitzvot but later became associated with people who follow the Eida HaChareidit/Aguda/Shas.
RabbiofBerlin, even the Satmar Rebbe himself admitted that he was a daat yachid. Just out of curiosity, was this pesak given before or after he was stoned in Meah Shearim for riding in a car after what we hold to be shekiah (and before Rabbenu Tam time) on Leil Shabbat
1.See Mishna Berura 561:1 that being that in his time we did not have independence the cities of Yehuda were considered desolate even though Jews were living in them.
2. Common sense states that if the Jews were able to make the deset bloom the Land was waiting for its People and we are now in the beginning of the Geula.
3. The Three Shevuot are aggadata and are not paskened in any code. Even if they did have some halachic standing that was obviated by the Goyim violating their end of the bargain (several times) and then giving permission in the San Remo Conference (Rav Meir Simcha, who was an ardent supporter of the JNF, said this explicitly).
He’s also very pro-Israel.
Englishman, many gedolim such as Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Rav Tzvi Pesach Frank, Rav Yitzchak Herzog, Rav Kahaneman, Rav Yechezkel Sarna, Rav Meshulam Rata, Rav Menachem Kasher, Rav Yosef B. Soloveichik and Rav Tzvi Yehuda Kook were in favor of the Medina. The Chairman of the Aguda in EY, Rav Yehuda Leib Levin signed the Declaration of Independence.
Curiosity,
1. It is an obligation to establish a state as stated explicitly by Ramban in his Sefer HaMitzvot.
2. Rav Soloveichik says that its establishment SAVED the Jewish people in the national depression that followed the Holocaust (see Kol Dodi Dofek).