**Kol Koreh Text**
A Public Alert to Our Fellow Jews in Our Country, The United States of America
Gedolei Torah of previous generations have already proclaimed that every Jewish person should participate and vote in elections held in our benevolent country, the United States of America. This is for several reasons.
First, it is incumbent on us to be concerned about the interests of our fellow Jews, and we have indeed merited to see great accomplishments that American Jewry has attained with the help of Heaven through participation in the electoral process. Second, Divine providence has placed the United States today in the position of being the single greatest ally of the Jewish nation that lives in the Holy Land, concerned with protecting it from the “70 wolves” that surround it to destroy it, G-d forbid.
There is also the mandate of hakoras hatov (recognition of goodness), one of the bases of our belief, which makes it incumbent on us to express our gratitude to the benevolent country in which we dwell by participating in its elections.
Let no one free himself from that obligation with the argument that in a country as large as the United States his individual voice can make no difference. For we have seen a number of elections, most notably the presidential election of only a few years ago, that were decided by only a few hundred votes.
May Hashem guard us and save us from all crisis and evil decree, and from the difficult times in which we live, so that we will merit, soon in our days, the arrival of the ultimate redeemer, and the fulfillment through us of “And all the nations of the land will see that upon you the name of Hashem is called.”
The Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah in America
Sh’vat, 5768
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קול קורא אל אחב”י במדינתנו ארה”ב
כבר הורו חכמים, גדולי תורה מדורות שלפנינו, שראוי לכל בן ישראל להשתתף ולהצביע בבחירות במדינתנו של חסד, ארצות הברית. וזה מטעם כמה סיבות.
לראשונה, עלינו לדאוג לאינטרסים של אחינו בית ישראל, וכבר זכינו לראות בעבר את ההשגות הגדולות שהשיגו יהדות ארה”ב, בסייעתא דשמיא, בכח הבחירות שלה. שנית, ההשגחה העליונה בימינו העמידה את ארה”ב כאומה העיקרית הדואגת על העם היושב בציון להצילו מה”שבעים זאבים” העומדים מסביבו לכלותו ר”ל.
ויש בזה גם ענין של הכרת הטוב, שהוא מיסודי הדת, ועלינו להביע הכרתינו להמלכות של חסד שבה אנו גרים על ידי השתתפותינו בבחירות.
ואל יפטר האדם את עצמו מחיובו לבחור עם הטענה שבארץ כל כך גדולה כמו ארה”ב אין הקול היחידי שלו מעלה ומוריד, כי כבר ראינו כמה בחירות, ובמיוחד הבחירות לנשיא של לפני שנים אחדות, שהוכרעו על ידי כמה מאות קולות.
ויה”ר שהקב”ה ישמרנו ויצילנו מכל צרה ומכל גזירה רעה, ומן השעות הקשות שבהן אנחנו חיים, ונזכה בקרוב בימינו לביאת גואל צדק, ויקויים בנו מה שנאמר “וראו כל עמי הארץ כי שם ה’ נקרא עליך”.
מועצת גדולי התורה באמריקה
ב’ שבט, תשס”ח
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16 Responses
For whom?
They say to vote who should i vote for the one who kissed arafats wife or for the other arab ?
simple, vote republican, and avoid those problems
Why any comments? It’s right there from the Moetzes, telling us exactly what we need to do.
To Daas Torah (no. 4):
The main point of the Kol-Koreh is to encourage our participation in the primary elections process, to demonstrate that we are a voting bloc that must be reckoned with.
This will strengthen the hands of our representatives when they negotiate with Government officials for community needs.
All that is required is for you to show up at the polling place, sign-in, and vote for anything oe nothiong at all to show that you have participated.
You don’t have to affirmatively vote for either the King or the Queen of Sodom!
So there is no contradiction here between what the MoEtZes is telling you and what Rav Moshe, ZT”L, warned about many years ago (Don’t support ToEyVa).
does anyone know where i can register to vote in israel and how??
anyone registered as a democrat can’t vote republican I urge all of you to switch your registration so that you can vote for the conservative who’s morals are closest’s to our Torah Values
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contact your local embassy
Dear Editor,
I think that this should have been posted a month ago, together with details of how to make sure you are registered.
Alot of people don’t vote because they don’t know how to register!
Reb Chaim Oizer told Gerer Chasidim not to go to Kobe Japan in 1940. They did exactly the opposite of the advice of “Gadol Hador” and were saved from the Nazis. Gedolim can only advise using common sense. Many times Halacha goes against common sense (CHOK). Voting is political not halacha.
#11 do a YW search on Felder – I think that there was a thread on registering.
Dear Ploni, etc. (no. 13)
Since the Mir Yeshiva leadership–Rav Shmuelovitz and Rav Levenstein, ZT”L–went along to Kobe, Japan, it’s highly unlikely that they directly ifgnored the advice of the Godol HaDor, Reb Chaim Ozer, ZT”L.
Check your sources.
If you are registered as a democrat, and you don’t like the democrats, you should change to republican registration.
And they do know who voted for whom because they see the exit polls and which areas voted for which candidate.
13. You couldnt be more further from the truth. What starts out as a nonsense blog does not need to result in such a falshkeit. Please advise YW editor to remove
to #13 regardless of your thoughts and feelings about voting, and of all the things you can possibly do wrong, NEVER, EVER, EVER, put down or mock what a gadol says. You haven’t the slightest clue as to what was going on in 1940 and the circumstances surrounding whatever did in fact happen and you have absolutely no right to bring raiyas from there. Finally, I, like #17 cannot believe that YW even had a havameena to let such slander be posted.
#8
It seams that you are VERY uninformed when it comes to Jewish & Torah Values and in your writing its very obvious that you are ignorant of what our G’dolim said or held.
It is very clear that you are more (or totally) influenced by CNN & BBC rather then of Rabbi Avigdor Miller ztl & Reb Moshe Ztl.
WHAT A SHAME!!!!