Tzfat’s chief Sephardic rabbi, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu addressed activists involved in the effort to prevent the expulsion of families from Beit El’s Ulpana neighborhood. Rabbi Eliyahu explained “Likud and Labor are running the country, and what are we supposed to be doing, making coffee”.
The rav explained that some time ago, the mission was to establish yeshivot, and that has been accomplished. Then the mission became establishing torani garinim, a hardcore group of young people committed to the torah way of life, to spread adherence to torah and mitzvos around the country, including cities like Tel Aviv.
“The mission today is a greater one. It is time to take control,” explaining it is time for the committed community to take control of the country and run things as they should be in Eretz Yisrael. “The Likud and Labor are running the world, together with a few judges who call themselves superior” explained the rav as he cited the failures of today’s leaders who are far from the torah way of life.
The rav encouraged the young participants to set their sights on the leadership of the nation, to run the country with an emunah in HKBH, in line with torah values.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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So now the RZs are discovering that the movements they joined in 1902 don’t hold by the Torah! And he says the answer is for the young people to take over the leadership. Well, it doesn’t work that way. First they should make tshuva for the “Z” part and return to the “R” part. Then they’ll find that the Jews already have a movement, called Am Yisroel, and leaders, the Gedolim.
He is correct. The question is; how?
#1, we always knew it but we also knew that there would be a State. Unfortunately, most frum Jews didn’t listen so now we’re in a mess. those who live in the Lands of Tuma should come home, become citizens and vote.
#2, within the system. Specifically, by joning a party trhat will form the government and becoming numerous enough to run it. Also we must show Hasem that we are worthy by learning how to run a state according to Tora.
He has perhaps forgotten that as a “chief rabbi” of a city, he is a civil servant, and his bosses won’t be very happy with what he is saying.
Certainly if you add up all Hareidim, Religious Zionists and traditionally oriented non-orthodox (most of whom are Sefardi), you are in striking distance of taking over the country. Of course, those who have controlled Eretz Yisrael for the last 60+ years won’t take kindly to being dispossed, and revolutions are usually quite messy.
akuperma, elsewhere today you went on record as favoring an armed putsch. Here you’ve eased off: a messy revolution but no mention of guns. So I’ll take advantage of your moment of moderacy to stress that no sane Religious Zionist will raise a hand, let alone a gun, on non-observant Jews as such. The hareidim won’t either because, if they take your counsel, they won’t join the army anyway even if it means going to prison. So we’re left with the “traditionally oriented non-orthodox” to undo more than 100 (yeah, that’s 60+) years of state-building and thrust nearly 6 million Jews into mortal peril, to what you presume will be Hashem’s boundless joy.
#3 Avi K….
There were REAL TRUE Gedolim before the establishment of the State who also were worried about the fact that there may be a State. However, they were against the establishment of such a State. They followed our old tradition which is from Chaz”al that we are not supposed to establish any State and get into wars before Moshiach comes. And, that only Moshiach will be the one to establish the true Torah State.
Can you explain to me please why you are so sure that you are right and they are wrong??
Akuperma, he hasn’t forgotten, he’s just not afraid of his “bosses”, because he knows Who his real boss is, and is more afraid of Him.