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| Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Joel |
I am occasionally forwarded the blog’s opinion pieces.
Despite some “over-the-top” rhetoric, I often find myself agreeing with many of
the points being made.
Today I was sent what appears to be a translation of a
lecture delivered by the Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Joel at the Shalosh Seudos meal
this past Shabbos to his Chasidim.
If the translation is accurate, the remarks are not merely
controversial—they represent a profound moral failure. When Jewish soldiers are
risking their lives to defend fellow Jews, to portray their actions as a form
of idolatry is not simply an ideological disagreement. It is a distortion of
basic Jewish moral sensibilities.
Following in the footsteps of his uncle, R’ Yoel
Teitelbaum—who published a scathing attack against Rav Kook, the spiritual
progenitor of Religious Zionism, and who famously described the miracles of the
Six-Day War as maaseh Satan (the work of the devil)—the Satmar Rebbe compared
the IDF to the Egel HaZahav, the Golden Calf of last week’s Torah portion...
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