The Sanzer Rebbe delivered a sharply worded speech against Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and the judicial system at a kenes on behalf of Keren Olam HaTorah in Bnei Brak on Sunday night, speaking in Hebrew rather than Yiddish.
The Rebbe began by reciting from the Parsha, focusing on the passuk: ‘וְכִי תָ?’ֹאוּ מִלְ?–ָמָ?” ?’ְּאַרְצְכֶם עַל ?”ַצַּר ?”ַצֹּרֵר אֶתְכֶם וַ?”ֲרֵעֹתֶם ?’ַּ?–ֲצֹצְרֹת, וְ? ִ?-ְכַּרְתֶּם לִפְ? ֵי ?”‘ אֱלֹקיכֶם, וְ? וֹשַׁעְתֶּם מֵאֹיְ?’ֵיכֶם.'”
The Rebbe explained that the words “וְכִי תָ?’ֹאוּ מִלְ?–ָמָ?” ?’ְּאַרְצְכֶם” obviously means an enemy from outside. But the Torah hints in the words “עַל ?”ַצַּר ?”ַצֹּרֵר אֶתְכֶם” that a time will come when the war will be “in your land”-inside, within the Land.
“This will be the biggest war, ‘מִלְ?–ָמָ?” לַ?”‘ ?’ַּעֲמָלֵק’ – a war against the Eirav Rav, against those who want to uproot Torah from Yisrael, that it will chalilah become like all the other nations,” the Rebbe said.
The Rebbe recalled hearing from his father, z’tl,? in the name of earlier tzaddikim that the main suffering in the era before Moshiach and during the War of Gog and Magog will be spiritual in nature.
“‘וַ?”ֲרֵעֹתֶם ?’ַּ?–ֲצֹצְרֹת’- we must gather together to cry out and daven against this battle against Lomdei Torah because it poses a tangible danger to the entire nation in Tzion,” the Rebbe said. “We know the truth, that only Torah protects and saves. Only Torah will save Am Ysrael from those who rise against us to destroy us, chalilah.”
“The Sitra Achra is aware that the Torah is the strength of Yisrael, so they gather to fight against it, with brazenness and wickedness. But the Chasam Sofer already said: as long as the destroyers have not ceased, the defenders will not cease. Blessed is Hakadosh Baruch Hu for giving us Gedolei HaDor who are moser nefesh, traveling and exerting themselves so that Torah will not cease.”
“Those who uproot religion are not from the zera of Beis Yisrael. This deep hatred did not come from the children of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. We must fight them by ‘וַ?”ֲרֵעֹתֶם ?’ַּ?–ֲצֹצְרֹת’ – Jews give large sums of money, truly a wonder of wonders. In this, they unite. This is the idea of the half-shekel of unity, showing that Jews are responsible for one another. In the zechus of tzedaka that Jews give, the midas harachamim from Shamayim is awakened.
“May Hakadosh Baruch Hu say ‘enough’ to His world and ‘enough’ to our troubles. We believe that all difficulties-‘No weapon formed against you shall succeed, and every tongue that rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of? Hashem, and their righteousness is from Me,” says Hashem.'”
“‘This’ is the Torah, as explained in the Zohar; there is no ‘this’ but Torah.”
“‘Where the place of judgment is, there is wickedness,’ and every word is superfluous. But the promise is that ‘No weapon formed against you shall succeed’-we are certain that the holy Torah will triumph. The Lomdei Torah will remain in the halls of Torah and yeshivos in kedushah and tahara. No one will be able to harm them, chalilah. There will definitely be trials and difficulties, but we will overcome all of this. The end will certainly be ‘And you shall be remembered before Hashem, your G-d, and you shall be saved from your enemies.”
(YWN Israel Desk-Jerusalem)
9 Responses
100% emes how can one not see what’s going on it’s so obvious that the wicked are fighting the Torah with their last breath because they can’t handle what it represents. It’s the final battle and they will lose
That includes DrGoyy ym’s
Utzu aitzah v’tufar.
Joseph Goebbels,
“That includes DrGoyy ym’s”
It also includes you, ym’s since your close relative was an SS officer and you’re not even Jewish!
How can that be?
They are our cousins!
I can prove it through a DNA test.
So what are you saying??
Nothing as usual..
Ohh you meant it spiritually??
In other words, you dont like them?
So just say that.. that’s ok…
I dont like them either.
Glad to see such measured rethoric, reflecting deep Ahavas Yisrael, from yet another Chareidi leader. Just wondering – has the giver of this speech considered situations where siblings are on opposite sides of this issue – how does his “not from Zera Yisrael” statement fit with that?
A number of years ago, Rabbi Yonasson Rosenblum wrote an article where he noted how Chareidi society, by building barriers between themselves and other Jews, were losing “Klal Yisrael consciousness” – the sense that ALL Jews have a responsibility for all other Jews. This speaker, with his carve-out of those Jews who oppose his views as “not from Zera Yisrael” epitomizes that loss of Klal Yisrael consciousness – he’s essentially saying that if you disagree with me, you’re not a “real” Jew, and I have no Achrayus for you. This is the opposite of Yosef’s “Es achai anochi mevakesh” – even though I’m in a dispute with them, they are still my brothers.
Have we fallen so far??
an Israeli Yid
How convenient. Anyone who disagrees with you is not of Jewish descent. I have an alternative – how about anyone who doesn’t go to the aid of his brothers in their existential fight against murderous arabs has some soul searching to do??
instead of framing this as “oppressing Torah” so that you can completely sidestep the question, maybe actually engage with the issue at hand –
Why is your blood is redder than everyone else’s?
Do people in our generation have any sense of proportion? We lived through Babylonians, Roman empire, Spanish inquisition, Russian pogroms, communist governments, Nazis, factories working on shabbos, and kept the Torah. Now those who live in a country that subsidizes yeshivas, has shabbos for a day off for the whole country, kosher food all over – and when government reduces subsidies or someone needs to serve in the army, this is “prosecution”. This is an insult to all zera Yisroel – whose ancestors went through all those troubles.
ujm, i am a descendant of Rav Shlomo Kluger zt’l. you are guaranteed a permanent stay in the fires of gehinnom for saying ym’s about a Jew. i suspect you descend from amai ha’aretz.