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Religious Zionism: Bridging the Gap

Fall Beit Midrash @LSS

jrosenfeld@lss.org

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Session #2 - Rising From the Ashes, 1948-1967_______

II. Opposition and Antagonism

- Pashkevil, Edah ha-Haredit [1947]: Against Declaration of State of Israel

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- Announcement of Public Holiday Celebration for the Miracle of Independence by Poalei

Agudat Yisrael [1949]1

1See also J.J. Shachter, Facing the Truths of History Torah u-Madda Journal #8, pp. 200-276

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1. R. Shlomo Zalman Landau,Sefer Ohr la-Yesharim [Kovno: 1900]; introduction

When the Zionist movement began to trample on the heads of the Holy Nation, and capture

souls - sometimes through means of force, in ways known to us; sometimes through subterfuge

and seduction with the poisonous words and pen of the Zionists, up to the point where they

have already captured many holy communities, delivering false and corrupt Zionist derashot,

as they are well-knownSuch things publicly contradict our belief in redemption from God...

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2. R. Hayyim Elazar Shapira [Minhat Elazar, Rebbe of Munkas; 1871-1937],Sefer

Divrei Torah (Mahadura Tshisaah); 9:10

And God said: Let the children of my nation be in the Land of Israel even though they defile

it, and behold it seems that the Zionist heretics (may their names rot) have appropriated

this saying and all it implies for their purposes of causing the Children of Israel to fail, to say as if

it was Gods will that these [sinners] should settle the land of Israel even though they defile

it, but in truth this is utter falsehood and simply completely mistaken

...and even if all the governments of the world agreed to allow us to go to the Holy Land before

the arrival of the Messiah, we would not go there prior to the heavenly call made by our

Messiah.

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3. R. Yeshaya Asher Zelig Margolis (1873-1969),Sefer Ashrei ha-Ish [Jerusalem: 1923];

p. 29

and all the more so those heretics and overthrowers of the yoke of heaven, those who

convince and seduce others to sin, who want [God forbid] to uproot and rip out our

religion and our faith in the God of Israel and for sure, regarding those sinners who

sin because of their lusts, it is a mitzvah to judge them favorably, to bring them close,

and to pray for their souls, so that God will return them in a full repentance so that they

should live but these heretics and sectarians that are not part of Israel - it is

forbidden to judge them favorably, and they will never return to the good path...

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{Invective against R. Kook}

4. Prof. Aviezer Ravitzky,Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism[Trans. Swirsky & Chipman; Chicago: 1996]; Appendix #1 pp. 212-3

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5. R. Yoel Teitelbaum [Satmar Rebbe 1887-1979], va-Yoel Moshe; Preface pp. 5-7

6. R. Yerahmiel Domb, in ha-Homa (Neturei Karta Publication), 1975 [cited in Ravitzky]

7. ibid, inKuntress Et Nisayon

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