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Monday, May 13, 2024

הרהורים ביום הזיכרון תשפ״ד / Reflections on Israel's Memorial Day 5784/2024

יום הזיכרון (נדחה) תשפ״ד

English follows the Hebrew.
עשר אגורות (2¢):
הבוקר אני קראתי על רב בישראל שהיה בחנות בזמן הצפירת הבוקר. הרב הזה טעה בחישוב זמן הצפירה, והופתע כשהוא שמע את זה. אבל הוא פשוט המשיך לחפש את מה שהוא צריך לקנות בחנות וסבל מכל המבטים עניינים של אלה שעצרו לצפירה.

לפני שאתם קופצים למסקנות כלשהן -- שאני בטוח שכבר קפצתם -- הרב הזה מעודד יהודים לעלות ארצה. כנראה לא ציפיתם לקרוא את זה, נכון? בצפירת אמש הוא היה בעיצומו של לימוד תורה. הצפירה לא גרמה לו להפסיק. כפי שהוא כותב, "איזה זכות תהיה לחיילים הנפטרים אם אני דווקא אפסיק ללמוד תורה בזכותם?"

אני מסכים לחלוטין.

מכיוון שהייתי במקום ציבורי בזמן הצפירה,ידעתי את זה מראש, הקפדתי להחזיק ביד את ספר תהילים. בניגוד לעמידה בשקט בזמן הצפירה, אני עמדתי וקראתי תהילים כי קריאת תהילים היא מנהג יהודי.

כפי דברים הציניים של ידידי היקר אריאל בן יוחנן ז"ל, הידוע בבלוג שלו ״מהפכת התורה״, הוא לא יכול לזכור שהרמב"ם הזכיר שום "הלכות הצפירה" במשנה תורה. כמובן מפני שאין דבר כזה.

אני מתפלא שמעולם לא ייגש אליי אחרי הצפירה כדי לשאול אותי מה אני עושה, ואז אפילו לבקר אותי. אם אנשים היו שואלים על מה שאני עושה, אז תהיה לי ההזדמנות להאיר להם את הרעיון הזה של קריאת תהילים. ברור שרוב היהודים כבר יודעים על זה. הם פשוט לא יודעים שיש רשות לעשות כך. אני מתכוון לתת להם רשות באמצעות מעשיי.

כדאי לזכור את חיילינו הנופלים ואת קורבנות הטרור האזרחיים בעשרה בטבת. בנוסף לזכור הטלת נבוכדנצר מלך בבל מצור על ירושלים, וגם הרבנות הראשית החליטה את היום הזה יום הקדיש הכללי. יום זה נועד לאפשר לקרובי הנספים בשואה שיום פטירתם לא נודע לנהוג במנהגי יום פטירה השנתי.

אבל, עד שיהודים יחליפו את יום הזיכרון למנהג הזה , כדאי להמשיך לנצל את ההזדמנות כדי לחנך את אחינו. זו הסיבה העיקרית כן עומד בזמן הצפירה כשאני נמצא במקום ציבורי, ודווקא קורא תהילים.

אני מתפלא שהמנהיגים החילונים הציונים כביכול החמיצו את ההזדמנות הגדולה לנצל את  היהדות באמצעות קביעת ציון יום זיכרון חיילי צה״ל בתשעה באב.

כנראה הרעיון הזה חזק מדי עבור נשמותיהם חסרות אמונה באלוהים.

כמובן שזה היה מוביל לתוצאה הפוכה מהרצוי, בדיוק כמו היוזמה של רה״מ הראשון דוד בן-גוריון לקבוע מזוזות בבניינים ציבוריים. לא לשם מצוות תורה, אלא כי זה היה משהו יהודי שיהודים עושים. הוא גם סבר שיש ללמד את התנ"ך בבתי הספר, שוב מאותה סיבה כמו קביעת מזוזות. התוצאה לא מה הוא ציפה. ילדים יהודים קיבלו קצת חינוך תורני. ואז בסופו של דבר כמה ילדים המשיכו ללמוד תורה.

בן-גוריון ניסה להוריד את הקדושה מהתנ"ך. אבל אי אפשר לעשות את זה. אפשר לכפור בתנ"ך. רשעים יכולים לסלף אותו. אבל אי אפשר להסיר את קדושתו.

בואו נתיחס לעובדה. ציונות הסוציאליסטית הציונות של תנועת העבודה ובן-גוריון אינה ציונית בכלל. הם גנבו את המילה ״ציונות״, ופירשו אותה מחדש. הציונות היא האמונה שהקב״ה נשבע לאבותינו ולנו את ארץ ישראל. ומקור הרעיון הזה הוא לא בל-גוריון או הרצל או כנס בזל אלא התורה, מה שחסר לחברי ציונות הסוציאליסטית לגמרי.

מדינה יהודית היא מעולם לא המטרה של ציונות הסוציאליסטית, ואין צריך לומר שהחזרת מלכות ישראל גם לא המטרה שלה אלה ההיפך. המטרה לש ציונות הסוציאליסטית היא מדינה דמוקרטית, כלומר הלניסטית, ליהודים... ולכל מי שרוצה להצטרף. רוב האומות בעולם מכנות זאת גלובליזם.

המצאת טקסים חילוניים הגוררים לדת אזרחית היא הרסנית לעם ישראל. אבל לדעתי עושים את זה בכוונה. כוחות השילטון כל כך מפחדים מהתורה, עד שהם מרגישים נאלצים להלחם נגדה. הרעיון שחוקי התורה קודמים לחוקי האדם, כלומר המדינה, מאיים אותם. הם חושבים שהיהודים המאמינים שהקב"ה ותורתו בסמכות עליונה על פני המדינה הדמוקרטית כביכול הם איום נגד שילטונם.

ועכשיו, כל אחד מאיתנו צריך להחליט איך להשתתף בתיקון הנזק שהזיקו את עם ישראל. בהחלט אני לא הראשון שחשב על קריאת תהילים בזמן הצפירה. אבל לחלק הקטן שלי אני גם בוחר לעשות כך.

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
This morning I read about a rabbi in Israel who was in the store at the time of this morning's siren. The two-minute siren, and standing silently for its duration, is one of the State of Israel's ways of commemorating our fallen soldiers, as well as civilians killed in terror acts. This rabbi had miscalculated the time of the siren, and was surprised when it went off. He simply continued his business, incurring glares from his fellow shoppers.

Before you jump to any conclusions -- which I am sure that you already have -- this rabbi is one who encourages Jews to make aliyah (immigrate to Israel). You weren't expecting that, were you? During last night's siren, he was in the middle of learning Torah. The siren did not cause him to stop either. As he writes, "What kind of merit would it be for the dead soldiers if I specifically STOPPED LEARNING TORAH on their account?"

I completely agree.

Since I was outside in public space, and knew that I would be at the time of the siren, I made a point to have Tehilim (Psalms) with me to read. Unlike standing silently during the sounding of a siren, at least reading Tehillim is something actually Jewish, not that the 4th of the Hebrew month of Iyyar, or in this case 5 Iyyar, should have any particular significance.

As my dearly departed friend Ariel Ben Yochanan z"l, known for his Torah Revolution Blog, would facetiously say that he could not recall the Ramba"m (Maimonides) mentioning any "Laws of Sirens" in his compendium of Torah Law, the Mishneh Torah. Of course, that is because there isn't any.

I am still waiting for someone to come to me after the siren, and ask me what I was doing, and then possibly criticize me. No one has yet. I do not think it would be the worst thing for people to do if they ask what I was doing. Then I could enlighten them to this concept of reading Tehillim.

It would be better to commemorate our fallen soldiers and civilian victims of terror on Asarah b'Teveth, of course. Besides commemorating the initial breach of the walls in the siege against Jerusalem, it is our day of general morning. Even the Israeli Government sees this day as the appropriate time to mourn our "unknown" fallen soldiers.

But, until Jews actually implement this, I believe that it is still worth taking the opportunity to educate our fellow Jews. This is the main reason I stand in public during the siren, and read Tehillim.

I am surprised that the secular elite contingent of the quasi-Zionist enterprise missed such a great opportunity to exploit the Torah by observing Memorial Day on Tisha b'Av. I guess that would have been too much of a concession for their Godless egos.

Of course it would have backfired on them, just like Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's initiative to put mezuzoth on public buildings, not because it was a Torah commandment, but because it was something Jewish that Jews did. He also believed that Tana"kh (the Authentic Bible) should be taught in schools, again much for the same reason as mezuzoth. However, this backfired. A minimal Torah education was received by Jewish children who in other circumstances would not have received any at all. Some, if not many, then felt encouraged to continue their Torah studies.

Labor Zionist David Ben-Gurion attempted to remove the qedusha (Holiness) from Tana"kh, which is a fruitless endeavor. Tana"kh can be denied or distorted by evil people, but its Holiness is intrinsic to it. It simply cannot be removed from it.

Let's face it. Labor Zionism is not in the least bit Zionist. The Labor Zionists commandeered stole the term of Zionism, and reinterpreted it. The original source for Zionism, the belief that the Land of Israel is promised to the Jewish People, is the Torah, something which the Labor Zionists lack entirely.

Labor Zionists do not want a Jewish state, let alone a Jewish kingdom. They never have. Labor Zionists want a democratic state for Jews,... and for anyone else who wants to join. They have never had any interest in having a state for Jews. Most other nations of the world call this globalism.

The inventing of secular rituals contributing to a civil religion is destructive, but also, I believe, is done so on purpose. The powers that be are so frightened of Torah, they feel compelled to battle against it. They find the idea of holding The Almighty and his Torah to a higher authority over the quasi-democratic, ie. Hellenist, state to be a threat to their power.

And now, each of us must decide how to do our part in damage control and education. For my small, and I am certainly not the first to think of such of thing, I choose to stand for the siren, while saying Tehillim.

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Another Rabbi of the Exile, Keeping the Jew Down

ט"ז לחודש תשע"ג

I used to be proud to have been a member of a Young Israel community. But, after watching this video on Parashath Balaq, I am not so sure. This video was sent to me by my friend Ariel of The Torah Revolution, who introduced it with the following:

"Anything can be and will be read into Torah."

Richard Weiss, Young Israel of Hillcrest
IsraelNationalTV (Arutz 7)

I am truly appalled.

This insane galuth (exile) mentality, the mentality which is found just as much among the Modern Orthodox as the Haredim, non-frum, and secular, maintains my pessimism that the 80% of Jews stuck in the galuth of Edom will not make it out, just like those same 80% didn't make it out of Egypt. When will we ever learn?

How did Arutz 7 ever allow this on its channel?

The "rabbi" needs to open his eyes, and then go learn halakhah (Torah Law). Everything he said about "innocent civilians" in based on a Western assimilationist galuth mentality, not halakhah.

Yes, rabbi, halakhah is not just about "kashrus and shabbos shailos," divorce or contracts. It is an integral part of every aspect of a Jew's life, including how to run a (proper) Jewish government, how to run a (proper) Jewish military in a (proper) Jewish country.

I suggest that you begin with the Ramba"m's Laws of Kings and their Wars, an UN-censored version, if you please. Focus on the parts related to a milhemeth misswah (obligatory war). Don't understand why this is shayakh? Back up two paragraphs where I suggest that you "open your eyes."

Then you may want to review the mashal of Shimon and Lewi and Shchem. Whether you prefer the Ramba"m's explanation or the Maharal's, the residents were all subject to the death penalty, due to violations of the 7 Misswoth B'nei No'ah,...

...as are the Yishma'elim, albeit worse: not setting up proper courts AND murder of Jews. 

Then, you may want to review the last part of this parashah, the part where the politically-correct, infiltrating, practitioners of avodah zarah, are subjugated to politically-incorrect, capital punishment, resulting in the (politically-incorrect?) diffusing of HaShem's anger.

How is praising the IDF [leadership] for doing a half-ass job, pulling out when the goyim tell them to, and repeating the process all over again? Don't you see that the Arabs have learned long ago how to use this pattern?

You want to save lives? You want to save non-Jewish, Yishma'eli lives, as well as Jewish lives? Then support the IDF in doing the job right for once, quite possibly for the first time since Yom HaKippurim תשל"ד/1973. 

Then bring all of Young Israel of Hillcrest to Israel, further sending the message to the Yishma'elim that the Land of Israel, the ENTIRE Land of Israel belongs to us, and even Jews from Queens are coming to claim it!

Saturday, January 02, 2010

Me'ir David Kahane, The Young

Mossa'ei Shabbath Qodesh Parshath Wayehi 5770
Kahane Grandson Arrested by Shin Bet for Mosque Arson
Gil Ronen, 14 Tevet 5770/December 31, 2009

(Israelnationalnews.com) Police and Shin Bet operatives arrested a Jewish youth from Kfar Tapuach in Shomron, a grandson of former MK Rabbi Meir Kahane, on Thursday morning. Eyewitnesses said the youth was not told why he was being arrested, but only that he would be taken to Tel Aviv. Police stated later in the day that he was suspected of involvement in an arson attack on a mosque at Kafr Yasouf in Samaria three weeks ago.

His father, Binyamin Ze'ev, and his mother, Talia, were murdered in a terror gun ambush on December 31, 2000. His grandfather, MK and fiery rabbi Meir Kahane, was assassinated ten years earlier.

Nationalist activists reacted to the arrest by saying: “We hope the Shin Bet and police do not abuse the boy the way they usually abuse settlers. He is an orphan without a mother and father, who were murdered in a terror attack.”

Security forces have been busy trying to identify and arrest the people involved in the mosque arson at Kafr Yasouf in northern Samaria on December 11. Unknown people entered the mosque in the pre-dawn hours, set alight a carpet and bookshelves, and scrawled some graffiti on the floor in Hebrew promising revenge for Arab terror.


What a coincidence...

...that his parents' yartzeits were on 5 Teveth.

...that the Westernized/assimilationist government and government lackeys probably went by the Gregorian date, December 31, happily waiting for the Hebrew calender finally to fall out of disuse.

I do not believe in coincidences.

Did Me'ir David do it? He had an alibi, an alibi which could easily have been checked out without the harassment, so, mostly not.

As politically-incorrect as it may be, neqamah (revenge, and when involving goyim) IS a misswah. So you will not find me shedding any tears for a burned-down mosque.

I must admit that I do not know Me'ir David very well at all. We have spoken only a handful of times. His family took care of that, as they did not approve of my associations with certain other Tapu'ah residents. However, I can say that Me'ir David is a very gentle young man who works hard at his learning and at building up the land with the rest of his family.

That being said, I also believe very strongly that he is being raised, ...shall we say..., specifically NOT to grow up to be exactly like his father, Rav Binyamin HY"D.

Years ago, two of his uncles (one the gabbai, and the other ba'al qore') both voted to work toward removing the "Kahane stigma" from the [now] Central Tapu'ah beth k'nesseth (...whatever the hell that was supposed to mean). Both Me'ir David and another uncle voted against the resolution. What was he supposed to do?

This gabbai has continued to insist that the meaning of the word "stigma" in Hebrew has a much weaker connotation than its usage in English. Then why was such a vote necessary, if the "stigma" was not so strong? No response.

But this single example is only one of the many reasons for the above belief. I am afraid that other reasons cannot be listed here.

Try as they may, though, they will not succeed. Every time I bring up having lived in Tapu'ah, the reaction is always the same, from secular, left-wing Jews, to Haredim, to mamlachtim, to Kahane followers and sympathizers.


"WOW!"

The only difference is the tone. Positive or negative, everyone believes the same thing: K'far Tap'uah is an "extremist" town. No matter how many mamlachtim and "mind their own business in exchange for cheap housing" college students the "powers that be" bring into the town to live (and to vote, thus keeping them in power), it will always be Rav Binyamin's town, Rav Binyamin who once said:

"Who cares what people think? Let them think we're crazy settlers. Then maybe they'll leave us alone."

By letting you in on this secret, I expect to get more than a few perturbed emails from my former neighbors, who feel strongly about Rav Binyamin's strategy.

I'll just tell them not to worry. No one blog post has the power to break the so-called "stigma," let alone influence of the Rabbis Kahane HY"D, Me'ir David's father and grandfather.

So, what was the Shin Bet (Shabba"k/secret police) doing in Tapu'ah? Oh, it's always something. If it's not one thing, it's another.

Just another opportunity to make a nasty attack on the Kahane family?

Just the usual general harassment meant to toy with settlers, in an attempt to break them?

Just more of the usual encouragement to create and maintain divisions amongst the settlers?

A ploy to get Kahane sympathizers to come out of the woodwork, due the outrage of such treatment of an orphan?

Take your pick. Personally, I stopped trying to figure out the motivations of the Shabba"k, and focus more on the more important issue, the motivations of those giving the orders, the Israeli shadow government of Peres, Beilin, and Baraq.


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In the meantime, you may want to attend the memorial concert being held in K'far Tapu'ah, next Mossa'ei Shabbath, starring Bini Landau. If you cannot make it, then you will be able to enjoy it on the Voice Of Judea YouTube Channel, the following week.


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Read another neighbor's take on the arrest in Now I Am Angry at The Torah Revolution.

Monday, May 05, 2008

Guest Post: A Revolutionary Idea: "Hashemcracy"

Alef d'Rosh Hodesh of the Second Month 5768

My friend and neighbor, Ariel Ben-Yohanan, founder of the Jewish Yisrael E-Group, asked me to post the following piece for him. It's the latest in his "Demos, Cratos" series. His line is getting harder and harder in front of our very eyes.

We look forward to seeing more of Ariel in the JBlogosphere in the near future, with his own blog. In the meantime,....

A Revolutionary Idea: "Hashemcracy"
by Ariel Ben-Yohanan (Bereny)

In occasion of Israel's 60th anniversary let us remember that the Knesset, Israel's parliament, is an institution non prescribed by the Torah.

The Knesset therefore is unsuitable for a truly Jewish State: a parliamentary democracy, per definition, can not be a Jewish Sate as a Jewish State has to be based on the Jewish Constitution, on Torah.

Let us remember that the Creator especially tells us in His Torah to respect His laws and to fight tyrants. Tyrants are men who coerce their fellow men.

Knesset members are doing exactly this: by producing laws they are coercing their fellow men. They are telling us what to do, what not to do, how to do it and when.

The Knesset is a legislative body and just by being it is coercing Israelis not to respect the Torah. What is of course a lot worst, is that it is doing this evil with the participation in it's ranks of Amalekite Arab MKs. This has to be declared unacceptable. In Judaism the law is given by Hashem and administered by expert judges!

Let us remember that following the people's wishes the Jews construct the Golden Calf. Let's not forget this!

Let's not forget that the Golden Calf is not only an object and an idol but also is an institutional model by which power flows the wrong way, it is the case to say "upside down", from down to up, instead of from up to down. This is in clear opposition to the Torah system: Hashem, in Eretz Israel, wants us to obey His Law, not any law of the land.

Let's not forget that in democracy the flow of power is from down to up as well. In fact demos means people and cratos power. Democracy is people's power. In Greek.

Greece in Greek is Hellas. Jews know or should know pretty well what Hellenism is and what it means for us. Every year, for thousands of years now, we celebrate our victory over Hellenism and Hellenists, Jews and non Jews, at Chanukah.

If the Knesset in particular and the modern State of Israel in general is built like the Golden Calf and acts like the Golden Calf, shouldn't Jews fight it and demolish it rather then dance around it and worship it?

The reform which Jews really need in Israel is a Torah revolution, for redemption: institutional discontinuity, not "elections". Also because elections are divisive and we are told to unite and stay united. Part-y membership and activity, participating in the vote therefore clearly are condemnable, terrible, Golden Calf sins.

So, if Judaism is the exact opposite of democracy should Jews chose Judaism or democracy? Can elections or even democratic institutional reforms bring in the change we need or are they just simple improvements on the evil Golden Calf system?

Well, if democracy is an evil system for the Jews, against which stands the entire Torah system, then mis-taking the possibility of majority decisions allowed for the Sanhedrin for democracy clearly is an error.

Jews are about Hashemcracy. That's why we are here, in this world, and that is precisely why we are hated by the nations: we are revolutionaries, by design.

The true fight against anti-Semitism has nothing to do with ADL type coordinated action. It has to do with standing up for authentic Jewish values and Torah.

The Jews in Eretz Israel today, like so many times in our history, have to chose between worshipping Hashem, our G-d, or show our back to Him by worshipping foreign idols and influences. The sooner we understand this the better.

Not participating in the Banquette of the King is not easy. Nevertheless, we are told to stay away. So, let's stay away! Let seculars and the secularists have their democratic republics, G-d loving Jews know, it is not "them" and it is not "for them".

If we want to be Jews in Israel we have to support our nascent Torah institutions!

Let us be in Eretz Israel not just physically like any nation but spiritually and institutionally: as the Torah's nation! We have a G-d given right to the land only in this way: by obeying Hashem, not Knesset.

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Please leave a comment, or feel free to contact Ariel at: jewishyisrael-owner@yahoogroups.com