Name a Gadol That Endorsed Biden

No one.

Any person, including the head and other leaders, of non-profit or tax exempt entities MAY endorse any political candidate he chooses. He simply can do it in his personal capacity rather than speaking for the organization or entity that he leads.

Indeed, HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Kaminetzky shlita has endorsed President Donald Trump for re-election even though he also happens to head a tax exempt non profit organization.

They don’t support him [either] because he’s an idiot who’s not qualified to run or doesn’t have any good policies.

“Gedolim tend to head tax exempt organizations. They avoid endorsing candidates so as to avoid risking their tax exempt status.“

What about rav Shmuel saying we should vote for trump

Al pi halacha it is asur to be kofuy toiv. Since we must show hakoras hatoiv to Trump by voting for him, if you vote for biden you are oiver an issur.

Dear Oiker,

Reciprocation is not in any part halachah .

But in any case, what are thankful for about Trump?

And why does everyone think that Trump’s merit’s are unanimous?

PS If it turns out that we have more to be thankful for to Joe Biden, would you be endorsing him?

Probably R’ elye brudny will endorse biden if asked.

I personally always took Rav Millers point of view on voting
However
two years ago I was at a symposium for a major out of town yeshiva and the hanhala was asked this question. It was formatted in a way similar to “isn’t it an aveirah to vote for democrats bc of their social views?”
three out of 4 roshei yeshiva said they voted democrat especially at the local level. Their reasoning was hakoras hatov. They pointed to several cases were local democrats took up causes that actually saved jewish lives and therefore they voted for these democrats bc of hakoras hatov. Their position was hakaros hatov overrides the social aspects and they had several reasons for this ( I will not mention them bc I don’t want to allow for armchair pundits to argue on roshei yeshiva)
bottom line as I have said bf, there is no wrong answer to this. And more importantly its not worth arguing over. Our vote/hishtadlus can not pick the next president, that outcome is decided by Hashem

I would change the name of this topic to Name 2 Gedolim that openly Endorse Trump.

There will only be ‘cricket noises’ in response.

I agree 100% to what mentsch 1 wrote that ” And more importantly its not worth arguing over. Our vote/hishtadlus can not pick the next president, that outcome is decided by Hashem”.
I will add that the reason we vote is as follows:
Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l, wrote in Igros Moshe that “It is incumbent upon each Jewish citizen to participate in the democratic system which affords us the freedom we enjoy.”

Rav Moshe actually held a pro-choice position, even though ruled against abortion in nearly all cases. Since abortion is required if the mother’s life is at stake, he wanted the ultimate decision for whether to allow an abortion to be with the rabbi (who can decide whether the woman’s life is in danger in the terms of halacha) rather than giving that power to the doctor alone or the government.

Remember that the Satmar Rebbes told their chassidim to vote for Hillary last time. Many complex calculations are involved in deciding who is best to elect, so ultimately it must be up to each person.

The Torah is vast and contains a multitude of laws and hashkafic views. How could one candidate or party incorporate all of that? Note that all the religious parties in Israel are left-wing on economic and social-welfare issues but right-wing on security and moral values. There is no equivalent in the US.

And voting is not just a matter of halacha but also a matter of common sense–that is, is the person a stable and reasonable person who is literate, well-read, kind, understanding and deliberates before acting?

I think the major OU Rabbonim and Gedolim were extremely pro Hilary Clinton. I would assume that they are pro Biden as well.

Outside of a few chassidish clusters, Yidden are no longer a bunch of sheeplach who mindlessly vote for whomever some Rav tells them to. Hopefully, most will examine the views of both candidates on issues of importance to them and their families and balance that with the behavior and performance of those candidates and make a decision. There clearly is a wide gap here in the CR and throughout the tzibur as to how we should separate and discount Trump’s personal behavior from his few positive actions with respect to EY. I’ve noted multiple times how frustrating it is for BOTH parties to continually nominate mediocre candidates but that is the binary choice we are confronted with. In our democratic system, our gadolim and askanim are entitled to express their own opinions on political candidates and policy issues but in contrast to matters of halacha, we as individuals can make our own informed political judgements after consulting with our on Rav.

GH you’re a sheep pf the DNC

Sayag LeChachma – Wikipedia or not, are you claiming that Trump is so committed to being truthful? His own sister, a retired federal appeals judge, says he’s totally untrustworthy. I don’t know, there might be valid reasons to support him, but don’t glorify him or make him out to be anything other than a very very big b’dieved. Regarding the other points I made, the ACA, global warming and the Republicans who oppose him, I would like to see substantive discussion about their merits and think they need to be discussed rationally, because many many lives are at stake. My own theory, only a theory, is that Hashem is rewarding him in this world for those genuine good deeds he’s done, אל תתיאש מן הפרוענות. Another point: NYS prosecutors are in possession of lots of hard copy evidence of serious financial crimes he’s committed (apart from testimony of his former lawyers and associates) for which others have served significant prison time. He knows about these things and has devoted a good part of his presidency to corrupting the justice system in order to keep himself out of jail. Is that someone we want to have in charge of the country? Again, I’d like to see serious rational discussion of these issues.

Ben Levi, it says that לעולם יתפלל אדם שלא יחלה a person should pray not to get sick because once he gets sick he needs peraklitim gedolim, great zechusim, to get cured. Therefore, Hashem creates the refuah before the makah, before the zechusim are required.

Dear Resident,

Why is any of that relevant?

I am starting to get the sense of what the ‘hakoras hatov to Trump’ is all about.

Trump is a New Yorker through and through. He knows little about the U.S. besides the coasts. His idea of politics was who cares about policy let’s win the election and do what we want. When he decide He could not winged switched parties, and called the republicans racists and anti Semites. He was a Democrat but could’nt stand Obama. Now he is a Republican President with no alliance to it’s ideals.

A lot of posters here seem to be in the same ideological black hole. All anti Obama pro Trump talk, with zero commitment to policy. We must be thankful to our President for legitimizing their inability to be real Conservatives.

Dear Hbs,

Did you miss my post?

It is Trump 1 Biden 1.

Dear Gadol,

The American political system works best when voters form blocs. We can blindly follow journalists who are busy doing their job. Or we can trust the members of our communities that give their time to advocate.

Dear Hbs,

Thanks for finding that poster!

I really enjoyed his humor at the time, so I reused it.

I only have one username.

Once we are on the topic, How much is a significant part of klal yIsrael? And, why does it matter to elections? (I think it does. What is your take?) Also, if it was BIDEN 10 TRUMP 0, would you vote for Biden?

Rand0m,

Thank you for the post.
I feel that some people voted for the Trump idol and they believe that only he deserves to be called “The Chosen One” and therefore everything he does automatically has a Divine Imprimatur.

It is a double standard to believe that Trump was Divinely chosen but Obama (Or Biden) was not.
It is also a double standard to believe that Obama was Divinely chosen but was completely fallible whereas Trump isn’t.

HBS,

After a week on this topic, it is still 1-0. Since nobody has found a second Gadol publicly advising to vote for Trump, it is obvious that the 1-0 is not really very meaningful. This is not a contest of how many Gedolim support which candidate.

Random- so what, that is totally irrelevant to the point.

Jackk- you seen too have a poor understanding of what it means to know Hashem runs the world, that everything is for the good, your hob is hishtadlus not the outcome, and making His will your will. It’s worth putting some time into learning it well, it will help you in all aspects of life.

Syag, it says vatishlach es amosah, how did Bisye know that her hand will grow? They say she did her part and let Hashem do His part. Reb Moshe explains how to raise children, half should be perspiration, by doing your part and the other half inspiration, pray to Hashem that your actions should bear fruit. Do your part of hishtadlus to accomplish the desired results according to the Torah and then pray to Hashem to make it a reality.

Reb E- yes, thank you. That is what i said. You are telling it to the wrong person.