Posted on 03/06/2022 9:27:16 AM PST by EBH
Bennett's decision to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin despite normally observing Shabbat shows the urgency and importance with which he views his mission.
“Saving lives comes before Shabbat” is a well-known phrase among observers of Jewish law. Normally, it means that if you have an accident on a Saturday, you can take an ambulance to the hospital despite the prohibition against riding in a car, or that soldiers can protect their country on the Sabbath.
This Saturday morning, it meant that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett could take a private jet to Moscow to try to convince Russian president Vladimir Putin to stop the war in Ukraine.
There is widespread skepticism about the trip – the White House gave Bennett their blessing, but reportedly thought the chances of success are slim – but the fact that Bennett and Building and Construction Minister Ze’ev Elkin, who served as translator, traveled abroad despite normally observing Shabbat, shows the urgency and importance with which they view their mission: to save lives, Jewish and not.
Bennett is in a unique position that few, if any, Israeli prime ministers have found themselves in the past, having been asked repeatedly to help negotiate an end to a war.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky asked former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu twice, and Netanyahu passed on the message, only to be shot down by Putin. Bennett passed on the same message in October, after Zelensky asked him, with the same result. Putin reportedly called Ukraine’s Jewish president a Nazi at his meeting with Bennett last year.
Zelensky brought up the possibility of mediation again, soon after the war began, and Bennett spoke to Putin last Sunday – and for the first time, Putin didn’t say no, though he didn’t say yes, either.
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Hopefully they can talk some sense into Zelensky. The BOTTOM LINE is that he’s not going to get all he wants, and if it takes a nuclear war to make that point, that’s what he’ll get (along with the rest of the world).
Divine intervention from a neutral country?
Israel is not neutral in this. They depend on having access to Russian airspace in Syria. Israel is walking the tight-rope.
It is lawful to to good on the Sabbath Mark 3:4
It is lawful to DO good on the Sabbath
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