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- Shalom Moshe,
I'm contacting you directly, because I read your Take on Beck on A7 and my comment, as usual, was censored by the editors there.
So, I started up by saying that I agreed and let me say here I agree with what you are
saying 100 percent and I'm glad your jacket and you stayed in the car this one time. It shows that you do distinguish between what is Jewish and what is not.
I fear however, that existentially you are not staying in the car. What do I mean? I mean that in real life you are participating in the Banquette of the King, you are busy collecting as much as you possibly can of the most precious, crème de la crème, alternative Jewish energies this country and American Jewry has and what do you do with it? You siphon it right back where it does not belong, to the very center of the corrupt political system.
This I think is a huge error and I think this is why Hashem does not grant you His hand, that your opinion and positions would otherwise merit. I decided to talk to you about this, because from the article you wrote on Beck in Jerusalem one understands that unlike far too many of us, you do distinguish between what is Jewish and what is not.
So, the same way you understand the Beck show and the presence of the xtians at the Southern wall is against halacha, why don't you recognize that so is the whole political process in Israel?
The best thing to do is to disengage from it, to stay as far away from it as one can, with other words, as you rightly said in your article, metaphorically, to stay in the car: Jews must not mingle with the corrupt and we see an example of this in the Chumas, in the Purim story.
Torah tells us what institutions to set up on the Land, how to run them and society. Knesset is not one of these institutions and so the real battle that is in front of us in this historic junction is the battle for our Torah institutions and for our Torah society. This is not a battle
for knesset, rather it is a battle
against it. This is the very meaning of being with and for Hashem today in Israel. By being for knesset, I think by error, not by design as it were, you are de facto betraying Torah and Hashem.
We don't have to improvise and imitate the goyim, especially not here, on the Land, as far as our institutional setup is concerned. We are the luckiest nation in the universe, because we are given our Torah by an important player: Hashem. So, why not take it, read it, internalize it and then act accordingly and not according to this man-made Hellenistic nonsense, called democracy?
Ask yourself: Can the divine Torah-plan implemented by non-Torah, democratic means, through a non-Torah institution like the knesset? The answer clearly is NO. We need to gether the forces for a Torah revolution! That is the only way change can come!
- This is a censored talkback on
Moshe Feiglin's Take on Beck
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