Q:
This Sunday there will be a big gathering on Wall Street to protest what’s going on in Eretz Yisroel. Should we go?
A:
If you’re able to go there, I think you should go.
It’s a protest against the wicked judges of the Israel Supreme Court who are prejudiced against the frum Jews and they want to try to force yeshivah people to go into the army. And they say that even though the Knesses would vote against it, it’s unconstitutional. According to the constitution, they say, everybody must fight in the army. That’s the number one thing we’re protesting. These reshaim want to break down the status quo that existed from the beginning of the State of Israel that the bnei yeshivah are patur from military service and we have to protest against that with all our koach. And Hakadosh Baruch Hu should be מפיר עצת רשעים. We daven יהי רצון מלפניך ריבונו של עולם that You should frustrate the attempts of these reshaim.
And another thing the reshaim are doing. They’re yielding to the pressure of the money of the Reformers who are sending huge funds into Eretz Yisroel and they are trying to push Reformers into the religious councils. In every neighborhood there is a religious council that supervises certain religious frum matters of observation, of kashrus and so on. And the reformers want to put women and Reform Jews there, which means they’ll break it up entirely and make it a hefkervelt. They want that goyim who are married to Jews should be registered as Jews, like the Reformers say – patrilineal. Even though the mother was a gentile the child is a Jew because the father is a Jew, which is against the halachah. And they’re trying to make them full-fledged Jews in Eretz Yisroel. So we’re suffering from them terribly. It’s a great sakanah. The Supreme Court today is on the first firing line of our enemies. They’re the worst enemies of all. And so we say, “Hakadosh Baruch Hu, תעקר ותשבר ותמגר, You should destroy those reshaim as quickly as possible.”
Say amen.
(February 25, 1999)
