Posted on 06/21/2012 1:21:10 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe, head of the Our Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael Shelanu) movement, was summoned to the Samaria (Shomron) police station for investigation.
Sources close to Rabbi Wolpe said they believe the summons is connected to a speech he gave last year at a conference in the town of Nofim in Samaria. During his speech, Rabbi Wolpe announced that he plans to establish a Jewish Authority for Judea and Samaria.
The Jewish Authority would apparently vie with the Palestinian Authority for control of the region.
Our Land of Israel activists expressed anger at the summons. “This is a Bolshevik investigation aimed at sending a threat and frightening [him] off from voicing his opinion against the extreme-Left government,” they said.
Rabbi Wolpe has frequently caused controversy with his statements regarding the Land of Israel and Israeli politics. In 2008 he compared then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and other senior government officials to Nazi collaborators.
More recently, he expressed disappointment that there would be no confrontation between police and land of Israel activists over the Ulpana neighborhood of Beit El. “If there had been a confrontation, such evictions would not happen again..."...
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He should be Prime Minister.
Uh oh, the Oslovian peace snatchers don't want anybody gumming up all their hard work [toward a Judenrein Judea and Shomron].
Far out.
The idea of whether he is a mishichist or not is of little importance. I think he represents many of the faithful in Israel who take the words of the Lubavitcher Rebbe seriously: That includes (IMHO) the entire Rabbinut of Chabad and it’s more serious lay adherents.
The problem for the government is the knowledge that the birth rate favors the traditional Jew in Israel and these ideas are reflected in the electorate more and more. They made R. Meir Kahane a pariah and outlawed his party. It is little more difficult to do this to the Chabad movement. So, they are taking one of the more vocal activists and making an example of him to scare others.
I used to dismiss the mishichistim as mere nuts. Then I came to work with one behind the counter of a kosher deli in Tamarac, and came to admire the courage with which he put tefillin on customers, despite warnings both by the kosher supervision establishment and the supermarket not to do so. They repeat a phrase that on its face sounds insane. But on the other hand, it says in the Zohar that the righteous are more alive after their death than during their lives, and the Tanya explains that after a tzadik passes on, he is no longer limited to his physical body. Instead, the good works that his students and those who were inspired by him make him as large as the mitzvot that they do.
After years of contemplation on the matter, I’ve decided that:
1. Moshiach when he comes will be heralded by multiple miracles. He might just be a miracle himself, by coming back from the grave.
2. The Rebbe in a very real sense is still alive, because his followers have doubled, tripled and quadripled their good works since his passing, and they are all acting as his emissaries, and the Talmud teaches that a man’s emissary’s acts are the same as his own.
3. Whether or not the Rebbe comes back from the grave and heralds the era of Moshiach is a moot point. We’ll see when Moshiach comes how he’ll come, so I’m not going to say “Yechi” myself.
4. Whether this approach wins or loses Chabad adherents, is also a moot point. The meshichistim do not say “Yechi” lightly, and they are indeed sometimes saying it in the face of derision and harsh criticism, so I at least give them points for courage.
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