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I’m glad people are talking sense about the respect we must have for our leadership. Anyway, it can be a huge chillul Hashem when Jews lower themselves to bash Obama in public, it can possibly lead to Jews being disliked by politicians, and it cultivates bad middot, in addition to the other halachik issues with doing that.
I had an interesting thought over Shabbat about the 3 oaths and Islam:
I am not an expert on Islamic law, but it seems that the Muslims believe that Israel belongs to Islam because they had sovereignty over it throughout the Middle Ages. Even though Britain had legal ownership over the land, the Muslims did not accept that as ownership, and the Arab League rejected the plan to give Israel to the Jews.
Therefore, the oath may still have applied in the 1940s, because we rebelled against the goyim who believed they had rights to the land, namely the Arab League in representation of Islam.
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The yetzer hara is confusing you with guilty religious feelings. Don’t let him. You have to take care of yourself first. I’m going to be blunt: you sound like you are codependent on your husband (which is understandable), but you have to just let him go!
Try to fix the marriage. If it doen’t work, you have every right to divorce and find someone else. Your husband will have to get chizuk from other sources throughout his life and not be dependent on you for it. It is not your responsibility to change him or save his soul. Try it for the time being, but if therapy doesn’t work, then take care of YOU first. I would also suggest going to therapy now to work on becoming more emotionally independent.
If you really want to know halachik advice on how someone who may be a shoteh gives a get, speak to a Rabbi. As for your marriage, Hashem wants you to be happy first and foremost.
I’m sorry you are married to such a dishonest loser.
Be strong!
I am very sorry to hear of your suffering. May Hashem help you get out of it and grow from it.
As others posted, try and find a trustworthy, understanding, and preferably an experienced Rabbi to speak to.
About your husband, if he is not honest with himself, then that is something you both will have to work on in therapy. However, he will probably need private therapy to deal with those deep issues, but it is worth a shot to go as a couple. Try to find the best therapist (experienced in marriage counseling) available. There are good rabbis who know of good therapists too.
Hatzlacha Rabba!
@Lior. Perhaps, it was better to be ruled by Muslims in the past, but today that is changing. The question nowadays may still be: Is it better to be under more physical duress under Muslim rule yet have more religious freedom and protection from sin (like stringent laws of modesty), or live in a secular Israeli society which is more damaging because it is a spiritual galut which affects our neshama? It could be that secular Jews will not keep laws of Nidda and Shabbos even under Muslim rule anyway, and, therefore, a Jewish government is better.
@DaasYochid. Some of them may be a halachic apikores or mumar in various ritual laws, but they are still our brothers who should be judged favorably and brought closer to Torah through love.
@ Patur: Perhaps Chizkiyahu was deathly ill (i,e, a treifa/goses) and he needed the same resurrection as the kid did.
In response to people claiming that secular Israeli’s are “real” apikorsim: That is a mistake. Most of them are ANUSIM or at the very most shogegim. Most of them believe in God anyway. They just have been brainwashed from youth. Some just don’t believe they have to keep all the added Rabbinic laws. I know many people, including religious Jews, who believe the same about many Rabbinic laws on different levels. Also, those who start doing teshuvah, do try to keep the Torah to the best of their knowledge and ability.
Most importantly, a major factor in distancing those people from Torah is all the fighting, hate, and backward thinking among the religious (dati) Jews. I wouldn’t want to be “Orthodox” either if I were them.
Those fools are putting Jewish lives in jeopardy thanks to their incitement of the Arabs in East Jerusalem.
I’ve been saying this for years
@bp yidd: The Muslims had no “sovereignty” over Palestine. It was in British hands (or Allied hands). Those goyim gave their word to the Jews.