Post by Daniel on Nov 23, 2016 19:05:40 GMT -5
The hypocrisy needs to stop!
Rabbi Avraham Gordimer, 23/11/16
As Jews, we are charged to appreciate and respect the government, and to pray for its welfare. Our Sages tell us that Yosef Ha-Tzaddik and Moshe Rabbeinu, the Biblical Joseph and Moses, accorded respect even to Pharaoh, as such is proper conduct, despite Pharaoh’s nefarious deeds towards the Jewish people. Our Talmudic Sages, Chazal, enacted firm halakhic legislation centering around issues of Eivah (causing discord), for it is crucial to be on good terms with people and powers around and above us.
I thus cannot but cringe when reading the attacks by liberal Jewish (and non-Jewish) organizations against Donald Trump, in which the President-elect is accused of harboring and/or promoting racism, misogyny and anti-Semitism before he has begun his term, and it is demanded that he take steps to renounce these noxious ideologies.
I cringe not only because these organizations do not represent me and countless other Jews, and these organizations’ denunciations are schismatic and certainly unhelpful, but because the protest statements emanating from these organizations are so often hypocritical and politically motivated.
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www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/19809
Rabbi Avraham Gordimer, 23/11/16
As Jews, we are charged to appreciate and respect the government, and to pray for its welfare. Our Sages tell us that Yosef Ha-Tzaddik and Moshe Rabbeinu, the Biblical Joseph and Moses, accorded respect even to Pharaoh, as such is proper conduct, despite Pharaoh’s nefarious deeds towards the Jewish people. Our Talmudic Sages, Chazal, enacted firm halakhic legislation centering around issues of Eivah (causing discord), for it is crucial to be on good terms with people and powers around and above us.
I thus cannot but cringe when reading the attacks by liberal Jewish (and non-Jewish) organizations against Donald Trump, in which the President-elect is accused of harboring and/or promoting racism, misogyny and anti-Semitism before he has begun his term, and it is demanded that he take steps to renounce these noxious ideologies.
I cringe not only because these organizations do not represent me and countless other Jews, and these organizations’ denunciations are schismatic and certainly unhelpful, but because the protest statements emanating from these organizations are so often hypocritical and politically motivated.
continue reading
www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/19809
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