Posted on 12/03/2010 3:04:32 PM PST by bsaunders
On the web site About.com, a reformed Rabbi answers a question regarding what the "right" thing to do is when wished "Merry Christmas."
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One letter and one word. J street.
Rabies. Contageous. Very. Moses would weep.
Israel exists wherever I am. I carry it with me in my DNA and in my very soul. I gave been told over and over again that the hasbarah of the STATE of Israel needs to be changed. The STATE of Israel is not the Israel HaShem gave to us. It is a fake and a flimflam that the UN carved out to assuage their own guilt and trap us in a web we can’t get out of. It is where they intended to put an end to us once and for all.
And as long as Israel is filled with those who have defiled her for centuries, claiming what is not theirs, and we have aquiesced to it for political expediency, it is NOT the Israel that HaShem commanded. As it stands, it is the last days of Solomon once again, where HaShem decided enough was enough.
I do agree with what you are saying, but I will not allow myself to use that as a reason not to do Aliyah. I am commanded as a Torah-observant Jew to follow HaShem's words, not my own. Maybe I can be somebody who can make a difference. This is what makes my heart and mind right and makes my decision the right one:
A real Jewish perspective can be heard in this audio
http://www.simpletoremember.com/media/a/Real-Story-of-X-mas-and-New-Years-b/
by Rabbi Lawrence Kelemen, a respected teacher.
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