In 1955, The Satmar Rebbe zt”l was working on building certain areas in Yerushalayim and Bnei Brak. As he needed the cooperation of various Israeli officials, he moderated his position to just be a ban on general elections but not on municipal elections. So the Satmar Rebbe zt”l, could be quite practical in terms of dealing with Zionists and cooperating with them. These developments could also be said to be a violation of oleh kechoma and yet the Satmar Rebbe zt”l allowed them. ( (Neturei Karta wasn’t happy with this distinction to be sure, and they made a mechaah about the Satmar Rebbe’s heter for municpal voting). This is along with his practical cooperation with the Zionists to escape Hungary on the Kastner train, and his change in tone in the thirties when he moved to Eretz Yisroel tried to take control of the Eida Chareidis from Rav Dushinsky zt”l, and moderated some of his positions on encouraging sttlement in Eretz yisroel . As such, it’s safe to say that maaseh rav- if the Satmar Rebbe zt”l didn’t take every word of the Divrei Yoel as Torah Misinai then kol shekein to those of us who aren’t Satmar.
As an aside , “The Satmar Rebbe didn’t pay for his Kastner train ticker the chassidim did” is one of the weakest deflections I have seen in this whole thread. Nobody pointed a gun at the head of the Satmar Rebbe zt”l and demanded that he take the train. He could have stayed behind and refused to go and cooperate with the Zionists. he didn’t and maaseh rav. One can cooperate with the Zionists for practical reasons, as paskened by the Satmar Rebbe zt”l himself.
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