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Don't Stand Idly By the Blood of Your Fellow Jew!
Someone posted this on the FB Group "Chabad English Speakers in Israel" –
In a public talk on Shabbos Parshat Bo, 1976, the Lubavitcher Rebbe stated:
"The Rabbis outside of Israel are doing nothing and raise no voice of protest that territories are being given away. When I ask them: 'Why?' they answer that they cannot do anything without a directive from Eretz Israel! When it is some other negative issue, they do make forceful statements. Yet when the issue is to take positive action, a protest to keep the Land intact [Shleimut Ha-aretz], they respond that they are unable to mix into matters pertaining to the Holy Land because there are many Rabbis in Israel. Their argument is incomprehensible: There is a negative command in Torah "Do not tread on the blood of your brother"! Even when your brother is not close by in the house, but in a distant place and in danger, the obligation is upon you to save him!
"They (the Rabbis) hear that the Israeli government wishes to return the territories, thereby posing a serious threat to life! They choose to remain silent and do nothing but bury their face in the sand. The repercussions for this are most serious, as recounted in the Talmud [Tractate Shabbos 119.2]. As we have said earlier, such a path was already practiced in Egypt. Regardless of the fact that Moses proclaimed that the Geula has arrived, still Jewish People continued to bring Egyptians into their homes.
"Similarly, now, Moses is saying that behold – Moshiach is coming, and yet, regardless, the Jewish leaders are intimidated and are running after the Nations and bringing in the enemy to be among the Jewish People, G-d save us! May it be the will of G-d that we merit the coming of Moshiach immediately in our time!"
My comments: Yasher Koach to all Rabbonim who are speaking out.
Fyi:
No To A Palestinian State! A False Premise of the "Deal of the Century'.
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