A Torah view on elections?
Dear Editor, I hope you publish this letter on your website it is very important it reaches the Klal. Thank you for a great news website.This letter would have been more effective if it were not anonymous, and if it had been signed by living Gedolim (the greatest rabbis of the generation). One cannot help but wonder whether Gedolim were solicited to sign and refused, or whether they were not even asked.
November 2012 A Torah View On Election’s
Dear Reader,
November 6th is a critical day for the Jews and for our country. On November 6th we will choose a human being to lead our country. We will also decide the security of Israel. We will decide if the issues contrary to Torah values should be allowed or banned. The choice is clear who to vote for. The President continues to ignore Iran and does nothing about the nuclear plants they have. The Torah tells us that if someone is going to kill you, then you should kill him first. Imagine if Adolf Hitler YM”S was murdered before 1935? Ahmadinejad is another Hitler YM”S. As the PM of Israel said, “Given this record of Iranian aggression without nuclear weapons, just imagine Iranian aggression with nuclear weapons.” How can a religious Jew vote for President Obama and Biden, despite the fact that both men are opposed to some of the Torah’s most basic moral values? The calls from the President to Israel that put our brethren at risk are outrageous and must stop! The President talking badly about the PM of Israel with other world leaders, imagine after the elections, if he wins! Going back to the 1967 borders would leave certain areas of Israel with around a 10 mile space, surrounded by hostile countries- that's suicide! The Chillul Hashem this would make if they will win again! And we know that it is very difficult to get Teshuvah for a Chillul Hashem. Rav Avigdor Miller TZ"L who preached that a Jewish vote must remain loyal to the candidate whose values are more in line with basic fundamentals of morality, this year the choice is clear. The President continues to ignore our brothers in suffering. Notably: Jonathan Pollard, who was declined to go to his father’s funeral, and is himself very sick. Jacob Ostreicher, who is currently imprisoned in Bolivia, and the prison there is horrendous and run by inmates themselves. Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, who is in prison in America for false charges and lies. Does that deserve 27 years behind bars, with a family of 10? Maybe Romney will look over these cases, and they will receive some help, President Obama definitely won‘t help them. Now, there are those who might say that Rav Avigdor Miller was the minority opinion and make note that Reb Moshe Feinstein and other Gedolim voted Democratic because they saw the Democratic Party as more sympathetic to their schools and other institutions. The talmidim of Reb Moshe Feinstein say that they firmly believe Reb Moshe would not permit any Jew to vote for the Democratic Party of today. After all, the Democratic Party in the previous generation was not radicals like today. In the previous generation the Democratic Party was fighting for equal rights of those involved in sin. Today, the Democratic Party fights for the promotion of the immoral behavior itself. Klal Yisrael must unite as one, like it says in Parshas Yisro like one man with one heart and vote for the right person, not who we feel is right, but the one who fit’s to the Torah the most. If Obama gets re-elected then we are allowing same gender marriages, which is completely opposite Torah values. Get involved in the election, donate money, tell your friends and neighbor what is the right thing to do, this is crucial. This election will have effects that will be felt by generations to come. November 6th will not only be a historic election for America, but also for the Orthodox Jews of America. So when you’re standing in the polling booth don’t vote your opinion but vote for who Hashem wants. I rest my case.
Sincerely,
A Proud Jew
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I would have left Ostreicher (whom, admittedly, I never heard of before) and Rubashkin out of it. Ostreicher because I'm not sure there is anything short of military action that any American President can do to help someone in Bolivia, and Rubashkin because his best chance of release right now just might be a pardon from Obama.
Most importantly, I question whether the US election will decide the security of Israel. While I am a strong advocate of doing our hishtadlus (making an effort to improve things on our own behalf), as you all probably figured out from my writing this blog, the security of Israel (and of all Jews but especially in Israel) is ultimately in the hands of the Ribbono Shel Olam (the Master of the universe). It is He and He alone who decides who shall live and who shall die. We must do our part and make our best efforts to fulfill His will (and I believe that His will is most certainly to try to defeat Obama for many of the reasons cited above), but whether or not Obama is defeated will not have any effect on the fact that the security of Israel and its Jews is ultimately in the Ribbono Shel Olam's hands.
Labels: Campaign 2012, Torah
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:35 AM
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He forgot to mention the Jewish man in Cuba, who went on humanitarian grounds and is now in prison there, on trumped up charges.
There's another Jewish hostage in Pakistan
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