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YNET: בר הורה לבדוק אם הכהניזם חדר למשטרה, נתניהו: "חתירה תחת יסודות הדמוקרטיה"
ראש השב"כ, לפי מסמך שפורסם, הורה לבחון את התפשטות הכהניזם למוסדות אכיפת החוק - כחלק מייעוד הארגון. נתניהו הודה שבר העלה בפניו את הנושא, אבל טען: "לא אישרתי לאסוף ראיות על הדרג המדיני - דרשתי שיעלה את זה בפני בן גביר". לדברי ראש הממשלה, מעשי בר "מזכירים משטרים אפלים"
איתמר אייכנר | 24.03.25

ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו האשים הבוקר (שני) את ראש השב"כ רונן בר בפעולות ש"מזכירות משטרים אפלים וחותרות תחת יסודות הדמוקרטיה". לטענת נתניהו, בר מנסה "להפיל ממשלת ימין". הרקע לעימות החדש בין השניים הוא דיווח לפיו שב"כ מנהל חקירה חשאית נגד המשטרה, בחשד לחתירה תחת סדרי השלטון והמשטר הדמוקרטי - בחשד שהכהניזם התפשט לתוכה. בשב"כ הכחישו כי מדובר בחקירה, אך לא שללו כי הארגון בודק את הנושא.

בדיווח של עמית סגל בחדשות קשת אמש פורסם מסמך שעליו חתום ראש השב"כ מסוף חודש ספטמבר. במסמך נכתב כי "סימנו את התפשטות הכהניזם למוסדות אכיפת החוק כתופעה מסוכנת, שמניעתה היא חלק מייעוד שב"כ. נוכח המעורבות של דרגים פוליטיים - יש לעשות זאת בשום שכל ובמשנה זהירות". בר הורה לאנשי שב"כ "להמשיך ולאסוף ראיות ועדויות למעורבות הדרג המדיני בעשיית הדרג הביטחוני, בכיוון הפעלת הכוח באופן המנוגד לחוק - ולבוא עם מספר ממצאים"... 

נתניהו, כך דווח אמש, עודכן על-ידי רונן בר בחקירה. ראש הממשלה הודה בכך הבוקר, אבל טען כי "ראש הממשלה מעולם לא עודכן על-ידי ראש השב״כ שבכוונתו לאסוף ראיות על הדרג המדיני מאחורי גבו, ולא נתן אישר לכך. להפך, בפגישת עבודה ב-19 ביוני 2024, כשראש השב״כ העלה טענה על כניסת גורמים כהניסטים למשטרה, ראש הממשלה הנחה באופן חד-משמעי את ראש השב״כ להציג בפניו תימוכין לטענה זו, להעלות זאת באופן ישיר ומיידי בפני השר לביטחון לאומי, ובשום אופן לא לפעול מאחורי גבו של השר. ראש השב״כ התחייב בפני ראש הממשלה לעשות זאת, אך לא קיים את התחייבותו".

...אמש טענו בסביבתו של בן גביר ל"עימות חסר תקדים" שכמעט גלש לקטטה בישיבה ביטחונית במעורבות רונן בר, אולם התברר שלא כך הדבר: בן גביר התפרץ לעברו של בר, שהשיב שמעולם לא הורה לחקור אותו והמשיך לשבת במקומו. לאחר מכן אמר בן גביר לנתניהו בישיבה: "מדובר בראש שב"כ שקרן, עבריין שצריך לשבת בכלא. מרגל אחרי הדרג הפוליטי. אוסף מידע וראיות מנסה לעשות הפיכה".

שב"כ: כך וכהנא הם ארגוני טרור, זה ייעודנו 
בשב"כ אמרו אמש כי לא התקיימה חקירה של שב"כ נגד המשטרה או נגד הדרג המדיני, וכי לא מתקיימת חקירה כזו גם כעת. "ראש השב"כ שוחח עם מפכ"ל המשטרה והבהיר לו את הדברים. השניים הדגישו את חשיבות שיתוף הפעולה בין הארגונים למען ביטחון המדינה", מסרו עוד בשב"כ.

בארגון ציינו עוד אמש כי "תנועות כך וכהנא חי הוכרזו בשנת 1994 'התאחדויות בלתי מותרות', ומאז שנת 2016 הן מוגדרות 'ארגוני טרור'. פעילותם של ארגונים אלה נמשכה גם לאחר מכן, והשירות פעל לחשוף אותה ולסכלה, בהתאם לייעודו בחוק. בהמשך לכך, וככל שמתקבל מידע בנושא, השירות מטפל גם בחשש לחדירת גורמים אלו למוסדות השלטון, ובפרט למוסדות אכיפת החוק".

הכהניזם היא אידיאולוגיה פוליטית-דתית המבוססת על משנתו של הרב מאיר כהנא. היא דוגלת בלאומנות יהודית-קיצונית ושואפת להקמת מדינת הלכה בארץ ישראל, תוך תמיכה בהפרדה מוחלטת בין יהודים לערבים, התנגדות לנישואי תערובת, וקריאה להעברת האוכלוסייה הערבית מישראל. בשל זאת, תנועת "כך" של כהנא נפסלה מלהתמודד לכנסת ב-1988. רעיונותיו, כפי שצוין גם בתגובת שב"כ, ממשיכים להשפיע על חוגים בימין הקיצוני.

בממשלה החליטו ביום חמישי האחרון להדיח את ראש השב"כ בר מתפקידו, אחרי שראש הממשלה נתניהו טען כי איבד את אמונו בו. בר, שלא הגיע לישיבה, העביר מכתב חריף שבו פירט את טענותיו נגד ההליך של הממשלה, וגם שיגר בו עקיצות לראש הממשלה.

ביום שישי, שעות לאחר החלטת הממשלה, הוציאה שופטת העליון גילה כנפי-שטייניץ צו ארעי שלפיו יוקפאו פיטוריו של ראש השב"כ בר עד להחלטה נוספת בנושא. לפי ההחלטה שהתקבלה בלילה שבין חמישי לשישי, בר יסיים את תפקידו ב-10 באפריל או בעת מינוי מחליף. בג"ץ הורה אתמול בצהריים כי הדיון בעתירות נגד הדחת בר יתקיים יתקיים ב-8 באפריל, בעוד שבועיים וחצי. הרכב השופטים שידון בעתירות, לפי הוותק של השופטים - הוא נשיא העליון יצחק עמית, והשופטים נעם סולברג ודפנה ברק-ארז.

מתורגם מכתבה על ידי חדשות עולם ישיבה (YWN):
ח"כ לימור בן הר מלך (עוצמה יהודית) מסרה: "עכשיו ברור היכן היה השב"כ - במקום להתמקד במלחמה בטרור ובהגנה על ביטחון אזרחי ישראל, הוא השקיע משאבים ברדיפה הפוליטית של נבחרי הציבור וברדיפה של מתנחלים יהודים.

ראש השב"כ שמנהל חקירה פוליטית נגד הדרג המדיני תוך הצבת יעד מראש - הגשת ראיות נגד הממשלה - חצה קו אדום מסוכן. זה לא ביטחון לאומי - זו הפיכה שלטונית במסווה של ארגון חשאי. רונן בר חייב לסיים את כהונתו לאלתר".

עשר אגורות (2¢):
משה פייגלין מספר על פעם שהוא היה בשיחת טלפון בזמן של הפגנות נגד הסכמי [מוות] אוסלו .פייגלין ידע שסוכני השב״כ מקשיבים לשיחות טלפון שלו. אבל פעם סוכן שב״כ פתאום הפריע לשיחה שלו כדי להגיד שהוא לא מסכים אם מה שהם שדברים.

אתם קראתם נכון. סוכן השב״כ לא רק גילה את נוכחותו בשיחה אלא גם התחיל להשתתף בשיחה. אי אפשר לדמיין דבר כזה. זה קרה בחיים אמיתיים.

האם זו הייתה אסטרטגיה או סוכ של, כדי לשמור את פחד האזרחים ממנו? או שזו הייתה דוגמה לחוסר יכולתו. זה לא כל כך ברור.

כשאנחנו צריכים לשאול את עצמנו שאלות כאלה, נראה שהשב״כ מצליחה להשיג את אחת ממטרותיה, לשמור את שליטתו על האזרחים.

בשנת תשס״ב/2001 אני עברתי ליישוב עפרה (יהושע יח,כג; שמואל א׳ יג,יז), ולמדתי על האופן אהודי לענות לטלפון, "שב״כ שלום".

אולי לא יצרו את הברכה הטלפונית הזו בגלל שיחת הטלפון הנזכרת של משה פייגלין, חברו, וסוכן שב״כ. אבל הבנתי שאפילו תושבי עפרה, שבעיקר הם ממלכתיים (נאמני המדינה גמורים), יודעים מאוד על החשש השב״כ יכול להאזין לשיחות הטלפון שלהם.

טוענים שמניעת הכהניזם מלהתפשט היא חלק מייעוד שב"כ.

...הכהניזם היא אידיאולוגיה פוליטית-דתית המבוססת על משנתו של הרב מאיר כהנא. היא דוגלת בלאומנות יהודית-קיצונית ושואפת להקמת מדינת הלכה בארץ ישראל, תוך תמיכה בהפרדה מוחלטת בין יהודים לערבים, התנגדות לנישואי תערובת, וקריאה להעברת האוכלוסייה הערבית מישראל. בשל זאת, תנועת "כך" של כהנא נפסלה מלהתמודד לכנסת ב-1988. רעיונותיו, כפי שצוין גם בתגובת שב"כ, ממשיכים להשפיע על חוגים בימין הקיצוני.

אני לא מסכים במאה אחוז עם ההגדרה לעיל של כהנאיזם. אבל אני גם חושב שזה לא כל כך חשוב. אני מציע שבכל פעם שרואים או שומעים את המילה "כהנאיזם", כדי להחליף אותה במילה "תורה". זה על מה השב״כ וכוחות השילטון מעלו דואג: תורה.

למה שהשב"כ מתיחס כקיצוניות, שומרי תורה ומצוות לחלוטין יודעים שתורה נוגעת בכל חלקי חיינו, ולא רק הלכות שבת וכשרות. התורה גם מורה איך ממשלה יהודית אמיתית פועלת, איך צבא יהודי אמיתי פועל, איך להתיחס לגוים בזמן השלום ובזמן המלחמה, ועוד הרבה עניינים בחיי היומיום שלנו.

המתנחלים [האמיתיים], החרדים מאמינים בשלטון המבוסס על תורה לעתיד ארץ ישראל ועם ישראל. אפילו הדתיים הממלכתיים מאמינים שמערכת ממשלה של מדינת ישראל תשתנה באופן קיצוני בימות המשיח.

התורה היא האויב האמיתי של המדינה. התורה היא האיום הקיומי האמיתי על המדינה.

כדאי לנו לזכור את זה.

ראש השב״כ רונן בן, שר לביטחון לאומי איתמר בן-גביר, רה״מ בנימין נתניהו
PM Binyamin Netanyahu, Internal Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Shabbak Chief Ronen Bar

Yeshiva World News: “Earthquake:” Shin Bet Led Secret Probe Of Ben-Gvir, Police
YWN Israel Desk, March 24, 2025

In recent months, the Shin Bet conducted a covert investigation against the police and the minister in charge of it, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, on suspicion of “undermining the foundations of government and the democratic regime,” Channel 12 News reported on Sunday evening.

According to the report, a secret document compiled by the Shin Bet stated: “We have marked the spread of Kahanism to law enforcement institutions as a dangerous phenomenon, the prevention of which is part of the Shin Bet’s mission. Given the involvement of the political echelon, this must be carried out with great care and caution.”

Bar’s people were instructed to gather information secretly and come up with some “findings,” with the document stating: “Continue to collect evidence and testimony of the political echelon’s involvement in the actions of the security echelon in the direction of using force in a manner contrary to the law, and come up with some findings.”

The Shin Bet initially confirmed the report, even claiming that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was informed of the investigation, but then retracted the statement and denied the existence of such a probe.

Ben-Gvir responded by saying: “This is an earthquake. Now it is even clearer why Ronen Bar must not be left as the head of the Shin Bet for even a minute. The head of a secret organization who initiates investigations and gathers materials against elected officials, while defining the goal in advance, ‘to collect evidence and testimony of the political echelon’s involvement’, is an immediate danger to democracy, who must be removed from any position immediately.”

According to reports, a stormy scene took place on Sunday evening when Ben-Gvir, who heard about the Shin Bet probe from his advisors, burst into a meeting of the cabinet and shouted at Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, saying: “Are you behind this?”

Bar responded: “A lie. I never ordered an investigation against you. They’re always telling lies about me.”

Ben Gvir then left and returned with the documents and presented them to the participants at the meeting, saying to Netanyahu: “This is a lying Shin Bet chief, a criminal whose place is in prison, a head of a secret service who spies on the political echelon, orders the collection of incriminating material on them, and tries to carry out a coup. It is simply unbelievable that a security organization in Israel is undermining the government and conducting a political investigation in order to carry out a political coup against the will of the people.”

Netanyahu’s office responded to the report on Sunday evening, stating: “The Prime Minister is not aware of this investigation and was not updated about it by the Shin Bet chief.”

His office published another harsh statement against Bar on Monday morning, stating: “The claim that the Prime Minister authorized Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar to collect evidence against Minister Ben-Gvir is another lie that has been shattered.”

The statement added that “the document that was published – which shows an explicit directive from the Shin Bet chief to collect evidence against the political echelon – is reminiscent of dark regimes, undermines the foundations of democracy, and was aimed at overthrowing a right-wing government.”

“The Prime Minister was never updated by the Shin Bet chief that he intended to collect evidence on the political echelon behind his back, and did not authorize this. On the contrary, at a working meeting on June 19, 2024, when the Shin Bet chief raised a claim about the entry of Kahanist elements into the police, the Prime Minister unequivocally instructed the Shin Bet chief to present him with evidence to support this claim, to raise it directly and immediately before the Minister of National Security, and in no way to act behind the Minister’s back. The Shin Bet chief pledged to the Prime Minister to do so, but did not keep his commitment.”

On Monday morning, Ben-Gvir demanded that a criminal investigation be opened against Bar, writing on X: “Ronen Bar is a criminal and a liar, who is now trying to deny his attempt to conspire against elected officials in a democratic country, even after the documents were revealed to the public and the world. I will not be satisfied with his dismissal, he must face criminal charges for attempting a coup and attempting to overthrow democracy.”

Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har Melech stated: “Now it is clear where the Shin Bet was – instead of focusing on the war on terror and protecting the security of Israeli citizens, it invested resources in the political persecution of elected officials and the persecution of Jewish settlers.

“A Shin Bet chief who conducts a political investigation against the political echelon while setting a goal in advance – to provide evidence against the government – has crossed a dangerous red line. This is not national security – this is a governmental coup under the guise of a secret organization. Ronen Bar must end his term immediately.”

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
Moshe Feiglin tells of a time during the protests against the Oslo [Death] Accords. Feiglin knew that Shabbak agents (Israel's secret police) were listening to his conversations. Once, when he was speaking to a friend, a Shabbak agent suddenly interrupted them to say that he disagreed with what they were saying.

You read that right. The Shabbak agent not only made himself known during a phone tap, but began expressing his less than favorable opinion of the conversation. You simply cannot make up a story like that.

Was this some sort of strategy, say to intimidate? Or was this an example of its incompetence. It is not so clear.

When we have to ask ourselves questions like this, it seems that the Shabbak has accomplished one of its objectives, keeping the wool pulled over our eyes.

In 2001, I moved to the town of Ofra (Josh. 18:23; I Sam. 13:17), and learned of the popular manner in which to answer the phone, "Shabbak Shalom."

If this phone greeting did not originate, due to the infamous interruption by the Shabbak agent during Moshe Feiglin's phone conversation in the 1990s, then even residents of the mainstream, predominantly mamalakhti  (diehard State loyalist) town of Ofra had been very much aware of the possibility that the Shabbak could be listening in on their phone calls.

According to the YWN report, the Shabbak is here to protect us from Jewish extremism. 

What the YNET report in Hebrew includes above, and the YWN report does not, is a definition of "Kahaneism:"

Kahaneism is a political-religious ideology based on the teachings of Rabbi Meir Kahane [hy"d]. It advocates extreme Jewish nationalism and strives for the establishment of a halakhic state in the Land of Israel, while supporting complete separation between Jews and Arabs, opposing intermarriage, and calling for the transfer of the Arab population from Israel. Because of this, Kahane's "Kach" movement was disqualified from running for the Knesset in 1988. His ideas, as also noted in the Shabbak's response, continue to influence circles on the far right.

I do not entirely agree with the above definition of Kahaneism. But I also do not believe it to be so important. Instead, I suggest that whenever you see or hear the term "Kahaneism" bandied around, replace it with the word "Torah." This is what concerns the Shabbak, and the powers that be they answer to, Torah.

What the Shabbak sees as extremism, fully Torah-observant Jews see as the Torah touching all aspects of our lives, and not just Sabbath and dietary laws. It also instructs on how to run a truly, Jewish government, how run a truly, Jewish military, how to interact with non-Jews during peace, and during war, and many more aspects of our daily lives.

[Real] Settlers, Haredim (ultra-orthodox) envision a governance based on Torah for the future of the Land and People of Israel. Even religious mamalakhtim believe that the State will be radically revamped once Mashi'ah (the Messiah) arrives.

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מה היהודים מצפים שיקרה למדינה בביאת המשיח? / What do the Jews expect to happen to the country when the Messiah comes?

ערב ראש החודש התשיעי תשפ״ד

English follows the Hebrew.

משנה תורה, הל׳ מלכים ומלחמות פרק א
א שלוש מצוות נצטוו ישראל בשעת כניסתן לארץ--למנות להם מלך שנאמר "שום תשים עליך מלך" (דברים יז,טו), ולהכרית זרעו של עמלק שנאמר "תמחה את זכר עמלק" (דברים כה,יט), ולבנות להם בית הבחירה (בית מקדש) שנאמר "לשכנו תדרשו, ובאת שמה" (דברים יב,ה).

עשר אגורות (2¢):
למרות המחלוקת על חובת סדר הקמת המצוות האלה לפי סדר הרמב״ם אין ספק שעם ישראל לא הצליח לקיים את שולש המצוות האלה בכלל. אם ניסינו לקיים אותם? אכפת לממשלה של מדינת ישראל מקיום המצוות האלה?

אולי מעולם לא נתנו לנו לקיים את המצוות האלה.

יש אומרים שהכנסת קיימת במקום המלך. באופן זמני? לנצח?

אין ספק למה רוב ח״כים התעצבנו זעמו כשהרב ח״כ מאיר כהנא הי״ד ציטט את הל׳ מלכים ומלחמות ג,י [ט] של הרמב״ם בנואמו בכנסת.

המבטל גזירת המלך בשביל שנתעסק במצוות, אפילו במצוה קלה--הרי זה פטור: דברי הרב ודברי העבד, דברי הרב קודמין. ואין צריך לומר אם גזר המלך לבטל מצוה, שאין שומעין לו.

כלומר אם גזר המלך לבטל מצוה, ואין צריך לומר שאין שומעין לו , אז קל וחומר אם גזרה הכנסת לבטל מצוה, אין צריך לומר שאין שומעין לה.

ואין צריך לומר שב-75 שנים האחרונות ממשלת ישראל גזרה לבטל מצוה המון פעמים.

בטח שאני כותב על באופן תאורטי. אני לא רוצה להעצר בחדש המרדה.
אני שמעתי את הבדיחה הזו מדי אצל חרדים.

בביאת המשיח מסדרים את סעודת. איזה רב גדול מגיע לסעודה. מקבלים אותו בכבוד ומלווים אותו למקומו. בדרך הרב שואלֿ את המלצר ״מי שוחט את שור הבור של הסעודה?״ המלצר עונה לו ואמר את השם של עוד רב גדול ומחובד ומומחה מפורסם בשחיטה. ואז הרב הראשון שישב אמר, ״הבנתי. אז תביא לי את המנה של דג בלבד.״

זאת אומרת של אפילו בביאת המשיח והגיע גם אליהו הנביא וגם משה רבינו וגם רבנים גדולים שעדיין יהיו מחלוקות בכשרות למשל.

הציונות אומרת שארץ ישראל שייכת לעם ישראל ולא לאף עם אחר.

הציונים המזויפים לא רוצים מדינה יהודית אמיתית ולא תורנית למרות שהמקורות לכך נזכרים הרבה פעמים בתורה.

יש הרבנים הציונים שמפחדים להכריז את האמת. הם פשוט סובלים המחלה של ״ראש תקוע בגלות״. אני לא כועס עליהם אלא אני מאוכזב מהם. אבל אין להם שום זכות לקרוא לעצמיהם רבבנים.

למי שלא יודע מה זה ציונות באמת, עליכם חובה ללכת ללמוד מה זה במקום להפיץ מידע מוטעה. למשל אפשר לקרוא עוד על הציונות באתר הזה.

הצבועים שמזדהים כציונים, אבל לא מאמינים בציונות באמת הם מעצבנים אותי. הם מעוותים את הפירוש והמשמעות הציונות, ובאמתת נלחמים נגדה.

הצגת שווא של רעיונות של עולם המערב כרעיונות מהתורה, כגוון פלורליזם, שוויון, התבוללות וגלובליזם היא האסטרטגייה העיקרית ביותר שלהם.

זאת אומרת הם משקרים.

הנה עוד בדיחה:

כשהמשיח יבוא ורוצה להכין תכנית להכרית זרעו של עמלק ולהתחיל לבנות את בית המקדש השלישי וקודם כל לשים כתר על ראשו ולפזר את הכנסת, מה הדתיים הממלכתיים יעשו?

הם יעצרו אותו.

Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kings and Wars, chapter 11
Israel was commanded to fulfill three mitzvoth upon entering the Land: To choose a king, as is is said: "Appoint a king over yourselves" (Deut. 17:15); To wipe out the descendants of Amaleq, as as is is said: "Erase the memory of Amaleq" (Deut. 29:19); To build God's Chosen House (Temple), as is is said: "Seek out His Presence and go there." (Deut. 12:5)

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
Despite the differing opinions over the order in which these mitzvoth (Torah commandments) must be implemented, there is no doubt that the Jewish people has failed to fulfill these three mitzvoth at all. Did we even try to fulfill them? Are we willing to admit that we (Jews) are not fully in control of of the Land, and thus unable to fulfill these mitzvoth, even if we wanted to? Does the State of Israel's government care about such things?

Perhaps we simply were never allowed to fulfill these mitzvoth.

Some say that the Knesset is a stand-in for the king. Temporarily? For ever? This was never clear to me. I have heard more than one opinion on this issue.

There is no doubt in my mind why the majority of Members of Knesset were enraged when Rabbi MK Meir Kahane hy"d quoted from the Rambam's (Maimonides') Laws of Kings and Wars 3:10 [9] in one of his speeches.

One who negates a king's command because he was occupied with a mitzvah, even a minor one, is not liable. Whose words should have precedence in case of conflict, the words of the Master or the words of the subject? Needless to say, if a king decrees that a mitzvah should be negated, his words should not be heeded.

That is, if the king decreed to abolish a mitzvah, that we are not to obey, then all the more so if the Knesset decreed to abolish a mitzvah, we should not obey that.

And it does not need to be said that in the last 75 years the Israeli government decreed to cancel a mitzvah many times.

Of course, I am writing theoretically.

I heard the following joke among Haredim (ultra-Orthodox).

At the coming of Messiah, his celebratory feast is being arranged. A very great rabbi comes to the feast. He is received with respect and escorted to his seat. On the way, this rabbi asks, "Who is shekhting (slaughtering in a kosher manner) the shor habor (the bull) for the meal?" The waiter answers him, with the name of another great, and well respected rabbi, considered an expert in halakhoth of kashruth (dietary laws), including kosher slaughter. As the great and honored rabbi is being seated, he tells the waiter, "Fine then. I'll just have the fish."

This means that even with the coming of the Messiah and the arrival of Elijah the prophet and Moshe our Rabbi and also great rabbis that there will still be disputes about kashruth for example.

Zionism is the belief that the Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish People, and to no other. The sources for this is found countless times in the Torah.

The fake Zionists do not really want to have a truly Jewish state.

Those Zionist rabbis who are afraid to declare the truth are simply suffering from a case of being stuck in a galuth (exile) mentality. I am not angry with them, just disappointed. They do not have any business calling themselves rabbis.

To those who do not actually know what Zionism means, you have an obligation to go learn what it means, instead of spreading misinformation. For example, you can read more of this blog.

Those who really get on my nerves are the hypocrites who call themselves Zionists, but who are just faking it, purposely distorting its meaning, and in reality fighting against Zionism.

Misrepresenting Western concepts as Torah concepts, such as pluralism, egalitarianism, assimilation, and globalism is one of their greatest weapons.

In other words, they lie.

Here's another joke:

When the Messiah comes and wants to start planning to eradicate the seed of Amaleq, start building the Third Temple, and first and foremost put a crown on his head, and disperse the Knesset, what will the religious, mamlakhtim (diehard state loyalists) do ?

They will arrest him.

למה עוצמה יהודית ונועם לא מתחתנים בסוף? / Why aren't Otzmah Yehudit and Noam Getting Married?

ערב שבת קודש פר׳ מסעי
ראש החודש החמשי תשע"ט

English follows the Hebrew.

הרב צבי טאו
Rabbi Tzvi Tau
(Photo: Michael Yaacovon)

הבלוגרית תומר דבורה כותבת (באנגלית) על השיתוף האפשרי בין עוצמה יהודית והמפלגה החדשה נועם של הרב צבי טאו שליט"א. אני רוצה להוסיף כמה פרטים לעניין.

הרב טאו ידוע כרב ממלכתי מאוד (נאמן למדינה ב-100%). הרב טאו למד אצל הרב עמיטל של תנועת מימד - הסיעתה הדתית של מפלגת העבודה, אז ההשקפה הממלכתית שלו לא מפתיעה.

הסיפור של היציאה של הרב טאו מישיבת מרכב הרב קוק והקמת ישיבת הר המור לאחר מכן הוא קצת יותר מורכב  מהמחלוקת לגבי הכשרת מורים בישיבה. אבל, אני לא אפרט על זה כאן ועכשיו.

Noam Party 
A Normal People in Our Land

אפשר להסביר את ההבדל בין ההשקפות של מרכז הרב קוק וישיבת הר המור דרך פרשת גירוש היהודים מעזה (גוש קטיף) וצפון השומרון (תשס"ה/2005). ראש מרכז הרב אברהם שפירא זצ"ל, שעלה לתפקיד מעל הרב טאו, אמר לתלמידי ישיביה לצאת להפגין נגד הגירוש.  הוא גם אמר חיילי צה"ל לסרב פקודות צבאיות הנוגדות את התורה, ולהתגאות לשבת בכלא למענה. אבל, הרב טאו התנגד מאוד לסירוב פקודות צה"ל.

ולכן ההתנגדות של הרב טאו לשירות חיילים וחיילות ביחד ביחידות קרביות בצה"ל מאוד משמעותית. למעשה הרב טאו מכיר שהמדינה לא מושלמת בכלל. ואפילו אולי אנחנו כבר לא צריכים להיות "סבלניים" עם כל המנהיגים החילוניים בממשלת ישראל.

יש סיפור שרבנו צבי יהודה הכהן קוק זצ״ל ,שהיה ראש ישיבת מרכז הרב בזמן שהרב מאיר כהנה הי״ד היה מעודלכנסת, חתם על מכתב שבו כתוב שיהיה טוב אם הרב כהנא יהיה בכנסת. תלמידי הממלכתיים בישיבה טענו כי הרב צבי יהודה התחיל להיות סנילי, ולכן הם לא התיחסו חתימתו על מכתב זה כמשהו אמיתי. אני קיבלתי עדות ראיה שהרב משה קפלן אכן הביא מכתב כזה לרבנו צבי יהודה. הרב קרא אותו וחתם עליו. אבל עדות הראיה קובעת באופן חד משמעי כי הרב צבי יהודה שמר על אחזקת כל הפקולטות שלו עד שבועיים לפני מותו.

אתמול נראה שאחד מגדולי החכמים, ממחנה ממלכתי, מוכן להצטרף לתלמידיו של הרב כהנא, לאחר שנים שלא הסכימו עם חלק ניכר מגישתו.

עם זאת, יש סיפור אחר, שעדיין לא אישרתי את האמיתיות שלו עם שני הצדדים המעורבים, שתלמיד בישיבה הגיע לרב טאו כדי להתיעץ איתו לגבי הארוסין האפשרי שלו. אמרו לי שהרב טאו אמר לתלמיד זה שהאב של הבחורה שהתלמיד מתעניין בה הוא חכם בתורה, אז מה השאלה? לאחר מכן בחור הזה התחתן עם הבחורה המדוברת, היא אחת הבנות של הרב כהנא.

אתמול הרב טאו נראה פתוח לעוד חתונה אפשרית בין התלמידים שלו למשפחה של הרב כהנא. אבל מפלגת עוצמה יהודית פתוחה למועמד חילוני ברשימה שלהם. ויש גבול לפתיחות של הרב טאו. ואישית אני מבין אותו 100%.

הרב צבי יהודה הכהן קוק זצ"ל והרב מאיר דוד הכהן לכהנא הי"ד בכותל המערבי
Rabbi Tzvi Yehudah Kook ztz"l and Rabbi Meir Kahane hy"d at the Western Wall

Tomer Devorah explores the agreement between Otzmah Yehudit and Rabbi Tau's nascent Noam Party. She makes some very good and important points. However, I would like to expand upon them.

Otzmah Yehudit Party

Rabbi Tau has always been very mamlakhti (diehard state loyalist). Having learned with Rabbi Amital, who was eventually involved with the Meimad (religious faction of the Labor Party), this should come as no surprise.

The story of Rabbi Tau's exit from the Merkav HaRav Yeshiva and subsequent establishment of the Har HaMor Yeshiva is a bit more complicated than the historical disagreement regarding how to qualify teachers. But, I will not elaborate on this here.

הרב אברהם שפירא זצ"ל
Rabbi Avraham Shapira ztz"l

The main difference between Har HaMor and Merkav HaRav is that the Merkaz HaRav students were told to go out an protest the impending expulsion from Gaza (2005). The Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Avraham Shapira ztz"l (who ascended to the position over Rabbi Tau) told IDF soliders not only to refuse orders which violate the Torah, and not only to sit in jail for it, but also to be proud that they were sitting in jail because of this; whereas Rabbi Tau was very much against refusal of IDF orders.

The significance of Rabbi Tau's displeasure, to say the least with the IDF's co-ed units policy, ... He is actually acknowledging in a very grand way that the State is not perfect, and perhaps we no longer have to be "patient" with the non-religious Jews running the State, after all.

There is a story  that Rabbenu Tzvi Yehudah signed a letter saying (paraphrase) that it would be good that Rabbi Meir Kahane would be in the Knesset. The mamalakhti students claimed that Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda was starting to become senile, and so brushed off his signature on this letter. The eye witness testimony I received states that Rabbi Moshe Kaplan indeed brought such a letter to Rabbenu Tzvi Yehudah. The Rabbi read it, and signed it. But, this eye witness also states unequivocally that Rabbi Tzvi Yehudah maintained possession of all of his faculties until two weeks before his death.

www.rabbikahane.org

Yesterday, it seemed that one of the greatest scholars, of the mamlakhti camp, is willing to join with students of Rabbi Kahane, after years of disagreeing with much of his approach.

Yet, there is another story, which I have yet to confirm with any of the parties involved, that a young yeshiva student came to Rabbi Tau to seek counsel regarding his impending engagement. Rabbi Tau reportedly told this student that the woman's father was a hacham (Torah scholar), so what was the question? Soon after, that yeshiva student married the young lady in question, one of Rabbi Kahane's daughters.

This time around, Rabbi Tau is not so interested in a marriage between his students and those of Rabbi Kahane. Apparently, Otzmah Yehudit is open to including a secular candidate; whereas Noam is not. And, personally, I completely understand.

A Christian Invoking Rabbi Meir Kahane's Name?

תענית אסתר תשע"ט

Arutz 7 (Israel National News): Israeli Court ouster of Ben-Ari paves way for future Draconian rulings
Wake up, people in the late great State of Israel! 

Gerald McGlothlin, 19/03/19 

Meir David HaKohen Kahane lives! And he's affecting politics from the grave as Israel's highest court in an unprecedented move rubbed salt in the murdered Rabbi’s wounds by allowing radical anti-Zionist Arab parties Balad and the United Arab List on the ballot while banning Kahane-supporter Michael Ben-Ari. 

Never mind that these approved parties support terrorism and want to see Israel cease from being a nation, the court-of-last-resort somehow summonsed other-world 'wisdom' saying, "Vote for anyone you want other than who we don't want you to vote for.”
The court apparently didn’t want to be confused with the fact that Dr. Ben-Ari is a former Knesset member of good standing whose views haven’t changed. They ousted him anyway, just three weeks before elections. 

For what? Making comments critical of Arabs and committing the 'unpardonable sin' of 'daring' to post on Facebook that Israel must oppose terrorism. It’s a throwback to the scene in Casablanca where policeman Captain Louis Renault mustered feigned outrage over ‘discovering’ that there was gambling in Rick's Cafe, despite the fact that he was one of Rick’s regular gambling patrons. 

Following the selective demonization of Netanyahu's alleged 'high crimes,' this court decision paves the way for a potential paradigm shift in the future Israel--if it’s allowed have a future.

It doesn't take a lot of imagination for anyone with a pulse to figure out what type of future Supreme Court justices the regime might confirm. Verdict in: No more Israel? No more problem. 

Ah, all in the name of 'free and fair' elections in what might become the late great state of Israel. 

Between the witch hunt against Netanyahu and the injection of land-for-false-peace Knesset members, anti-Zionist terrorists must be licking their chops. Oh, my, did I just commit a hate crime--for hating hate and loving Israel?

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
I have mixed feelings commenting on this piece. For one, it's from Artuz 7. But hey, if A7 is the only source carrying a particular piece, what's a guy to do? And, second, I don't like giving these people, like the author of this piece, free publicity. Sometimes it's better just to ignore them. They really hate that.

"Meir David HaKohen Kahane lives!"

First off, Gerald, that's RABBI Meir David HaKohen Kahane. (sigh)Yes, he mentions "rabbi" soon after. Nevertheless it is appropriate to include his title at the first mention of his name.

Now, what exactly does Gerald McGlothlin mean by this statement? When Jews say it, we mean that his Torah ideas are alive. But, when McGlothlin says it, does he mean "alive" as in Christian messianic mythological alive? Or does he mean Rabbi Kahane's influence? Now that I point this out, I wonder how he would respond. Any guesses?

And his next statement? "And he's affecting politics from the grave..." Just a metaphor? Or a suggestion of something else?

"But, isn't he right?" you may be asking. Irrelevant. That is not the point of this post.

And besides [in times when Jews maintain control over the Land of Israel] one may not speak about such individuals with praise.

Oh, and how do I know that he is a Christian? Google him. The description of the YouTube channel he is associated with is more than enough for me.

Great State? Nowhere in the Torah does it mention a state. It does mention kings, as well as the Sanhedrin, ואין צריך לומר the Land. And so, I am not insulted by the concern that the State might be "late." Eventually, we will have a Kingdom.

My only question is this: Is McGlothlin simply one of those Christians who believes in pushing along his mythological beliefs, which include events pertaining to Jews, and their actions? Or is he one of those who believes that Christians will, one way or another, eventually reside in the Land of Israel, and are even entitled to do so?

"But, didn't Rabbi Kahane speak to Christians and even go on Christian talk radio?" you may be asking.  Irrelevant. Christian strategies have changed drastically, just like their predecessor Esau changed his strategies in the Torah, and his descendants have continued to do so through out history, in order to overpower Ya'aqov (Israel).

"If you [Christians] want to support us, support us from afar. If you want to come to Israel and missionize [which, of course, McGlothlin doesn't mention] we'll have to...."
-Rabbi Meir Kahane hy"d

מי שמבין יבין.

I wonder if Gerald McGlothlin knows of this quote from the Rav.

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Notes: 
1. Sources are purposefully absent on this post, although easy enough to find on ones own. Although it is permissible to teach Christians Written Torah, it is, for the most part, forbidden to teach them Oral Torah.

2. Aren't there Jewish traditions regarding reincarnation? Yes, but there completely different from those of Christians.

מדינת ישראל כאילו דמוקרטית / Israel the DeMOCKracy

ה׳ לחודש השנים עשר תשע״ח

English follows the Hebrew.

בשבוע שעבר הייתי באוטובוס בתל-אביב בדרך לפגישה, ובמקרה, אני שמעתי טיפות מאיזה שיחה בין שני דוברי אנגלית.

כמובן, אני לא ניסיתי לשמוע את השיחה שלהם, וגם הם לא דיברו בקול רם כל-כך חזק -- כמו האמריקאים המדברים בקול רם חזק באוטובוס תוך כדי הם מתלוננים על הישראלים [ילידי הארץ] שהם טענים שמדברים בקול רם חזק באוטובוס.

בכל אופן, כשאני קמתי כדי לרדת מהאוטובוס, פניתי לבחור שאני שמעתי בשיחה. כנראה הוא החילוני אבל בימים האלה אי אפשר לדעת במאה אחוז. אני אמרתי לו, "סלח לי, אני פשוט רציתי להגיד לך שאני מסכים עם מה שאתה אמרת".

הוא עולה חדש אוסטרלי, והוא אמר לחבר שלו שלא ממש אכפת לו מאוסטרליה, אלא אכפת לו על ישראל כי ישראל הבית שלו ואוסטרליה כבר לא הבית שלו.

הוא חייך, וכנראה הוא גר בארץ תקופת זמן די ארוכה מפני הוא לא הופתע כשמי שהוא לא מכיר פנה אליו ככה. וככה אהחנו נוהגים כאן בארץ. אנשים מדברים באוטובוס אחד עם השני אפילו שלא מכירים. 

הבחור הזה המשיך לדבר והתלונן על שחיתות שלטונית בישראל, ועל איך דבר כזה פוגע בישראל, ושהוא מקווה שהשחיתות הזאת תסתלק מהממשלה.

עניתי לו, "... אני מסכים איתך לחלוטין, אבל למרות שאני מעריך את תקומת המדינה שנתנה לי (לנו) לגור בארץ, השלטון הזה קיים באופן זמני בלבד, מפני בשסופו של דבר ממלכת ישראל תחזור".

(אנחנו היהודים הדתיים מתפללים שלוש פעמים כל יום...

״את צמח דוד, מהרה תצמיח, וקרנו, תרום בישועתך. ברוך אתה ה׳, מצמיח קרן הישועה.״

...או בנוסח דומה כזה, נכון?)

לפי הפרצוף של הבחור, נראה לי שהוא הופתע לגמרי בגלל מה שאני אמרתי.

החלטתי להציל אותו, ואז חייכתי מיד והוספתי, "אם אתה לא מסכים, אז אני ממליץ לך להוליד הרבה ילדים, כדי שיוכלו להצביע בבחירות קולות כנגד הקולות של הילדים שלי שיצביעו להפוך את מערכת הממשלתית שלנו מדמוקרטיה במערכת תורנית".

הוא נראה להרגע. ואז, כשירדתי מהאוטובוס, הוספתי עוד דבר, "לפחות אנחנו יכולים להסכים שזה מגניב ששני אנשים שלא מכירים בכלל יכולים לדבר בשיחה באוטובוס".

הוא חייך, ואני ירדתי מהאוטובוס, ואולי לא נתראה לעולם בעתיד...  

בטח שאני לא מאמין שמערכת הממשלתית שלנו תהפוך להיות מערכת תורנית דרך הבחירות. וברור לי שממשלת מדינת ישראל אינה דמוקרטיה אמיתית בכלל; אלא היא כאילו דמוקרטיה.

כל פעם שיהודי שומר תורה ומצוות מתחיל לעלות על הקרקע תוך כדי פועל לפי הכללים, כוחות השלטון פשוט משנות את הכללים, זורקים אותו על הרצפה ומסלקים אותו מהמשחק. זאת אומרת למנוע אותו מלעלות לתפקיד חשוב במנהיגות.

אנשי מפלגת [כאילו] ימינית ״תחיה״, בסיוע בית המשפט העליון, הצליחו להחרים את הרב מאיר כהנא הי"ד ומפלגת ״כך״ שלו.

ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו שינה את כללים של מפלגת הליכוד, וכתוצאה מכך היא מניעת ח"כ לשעבר משה פייגלין מלהיכנס לכנסת פעם שניה.

גם חברי הכנסת אלי ישי ויוני שטבון נמנעו מלהיכנס לכנסת, יחד עם ברוך מרזל, כשהשופט הלא-יהודית התעקש להדבק בכללים מגוחכים ומיושנים לגבי ספירת קולות בבחירות. אם אני זוכר נכון, בית המשפט העליון הישראלי תמך בו. רוב הקולות שנפסלו היו מצביעים למפלגת ישי ושטבון.

לכן, כאשר אנחנו, העם היהודי, סוף סוף נסתדר, נתאחד, ונתארגן, ונתקדם באופן משמעותי בכיוון למערכת ממשלה המבוססת על התורה, לא נראה לי שיתנו לנו להצליח דרך הקלפי.

*הדעה שלי המבוססת על הספר אם הבנים שמחה על ידי הרב יששכר שלמה טייכטל

I was on the bus in Tel-Aviv on the way to a meeting, and caught pieces of a conversation some English speakers were having in back of me.

Now, of course, I wasn't trying to overhear their conversation, and they weren't speaking to loudly either. You know? Like when Americans are speaking too loudly on the bus,...complaining about how [native] Israelis speak too loudly on the bus? (A-hem!) But, that's another topic for another post on another day...

Anyway, as my stop approached and I got up to move toward the door, I looked over to the, apparently secular (but you never know), young man who had been talking, and said, "Excuse me. I just wanted to tell you I agreed with what you were saying."

He cracked a smile, and must have been in Israel for a while, since the intrusion from out of the blue didn't seem to phase him.

He was from Australia, and had said that he didn't really care about Australia, but cared about Israel. Australia wasn't his home.

I told that was what he said that I agreed with.

He continued with complaints about governmental corruption in Israel, how it hurts Israel, and how he hoped it would get cleaned up,... or something like that.

I replied that "...I certainly agreed with that as well, but that even though I had appreciation for the State -- after all, I would be able to live in the Land of Israel if it hadn't been for the State -- the State was only temporary. Eventually, it will be replaced by the Kingdom of Israel."

After all, don't religious ("Orthodox") Jews pray for the return of a kind from the line of David, ie. Mashi'ah?

From his puzzled face, it seemed to me that this caught him off guard.

I decided to let him off the hook, immediately smiled, and added that, "...if don't agree, then I suggest you have lots of children,... so that they can counter the votes of my children. Otherwise, we will eventually democratically vote in this Torah system of government."

And with that, he he seemed to relax. Then, as I was getting off the bus, I added, "At least we can agree that it's cool that two total strangers can have a conversation on the bus."

He smiled

Now, of course, I don't believe that we will be able to vote in a change in system of government. After all, the State of Israel isn't really a democracy; it's a deMOCKracy.

Every time someone begins to gain ground while playing by the rules, the powers that be simply change the rules, and oust him.

The "right-wing" Techiya Party, with the help of the Israeli Supreme Court ousted Rabbi Meir Kahane hy"d.

Prime Minister Netanyahu got the rules changed with the Likud Party, resulting in the prevention of former MK Moshe Feiglin from re-entering the Knesset.

MKs Eli Yishai and Yoni Chetboun were also prevented from re-entering the Knesset, along with Baruch Marzel, when the non-Jewish, elections judge insisted on sticking with ridiculous, outdated rules regarding the counting of ballots. If I remember correctly, the Israeli Supreme Court backed him. The vast majority of disqualified ballots would have been votes for Yishai and Chetboun's party.

So, when we the Jewish People finally get our act together, unify, and move in a significant way toward a Torah-based government, I sincerely doubt that DEMONcratic voting will be successful.

My guess is that the left-wing of the Erev Rav will whip out their foreign passports and get on a place to somewhere,...to anywhere but here.

*my take on Em HaBanim Smeicha by Rabbi Yissachar Shlomo Teichtel.

למה דוד חי חסדאי יושב בכלא? / Why is David Chai Chasdai Sitting in Jail?

כ״ב לחודש החמישי תשע״ז

English follows the Hebrew.

כולנו עם עצורי ציון:

"All of us are with
the Prisoners of Zion"

בית משפט העליון החליט להשאיר את דוד חי חסדאי במעצר עד תום הליכים בבית סוהר מאחורי סורג ובריח וכל "חטאו"

הוא שדיבר עם חבריו שנאסר עליו לדבר איתם מצד השב"כ בצו מנהלי צו המתנהל ללא משפט וללא הצגת ראיות,

דוד חי מצטרף לעוד נערים יהודים שיושבים בבתי סוהר בחשד שדיברו עם חבריהם והפרו בכך את הצו מנהלי שקיבלו ללא שעשו כל פשע!!!

#די_לצווים_מנהליים
#די_להתעלל_ביהודים

דוד חי חסדאי
David Chai Chasdai

עשר אגורות (2¢):
זאת לא פעם הראשונה נערים יהודים נמצאים בכלא בגלל הדיבורים עם חברים.

מאיר אטינגר נכלא בגלל המאמרים שהוא כתב, וכנראה גם מפני שהוא נכד של הרב מאיר כהנא הי״ד. וגם אסרו לו לדבר עם חברים שלו.

בשנת תשס״ו/2006 חודשים אחרי הממשלה גירשה את כמעט 10,000 יהודים מביתם ומאדמתם בחבל עזה ובצפון השומרון, שלוש נערות יהודיות מכפר תפוח ישבו בכלא בגלל ההשתתפות שלהן בהפגנות נגד הגירוש, וגם לא אמורות להשתחרר עד תום התהליכים ״מפני שהן ידברו עם תושבי הישוב שלהן.״ ומה היתה הבעיה אם הן היו מדברות עם השכנים שלהן? אולי הן יצליחו להשפיע להם.

אוי ואבוי!

אולי מי שעדיין טוען שמדינת ישראל היא מדינה יהודית ״דמוקרטית״ יתעורר כבר לראות שזה בכלל לא נכון, ובנוסף אין דבר כזה ״זכות לדיבור חופשי.״

לצערי, כנראה שלא.

All of us are with the Prisoners of Zion:
The Israeli Supreme Court has decided to leave David Chai Hasdai in detention until final court proceedings imprisoned behind bars for all of his "offenses."

David Chai spoke with friends he was forbidden to by the Shabba"k (Israeli secret police), which was implemented without any court ruling nor any presentation of evidence.

David Chai joins other Jewish boys who are sitting in jail on suspicion of talking to their friends and thereby violating the administrative order they received without having committed any crime!!!

#NoMoreAdministrativeDetention
#NoMoreAbuseofJewishChildren

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
This is not the first time we have seen Jewish youth imprisoned for exercising their right to free speech, such as speaking to their friends.


Meir Ettinger was imprisoned for the articles he wrote, and probably also because he is Rabbi Meir Kahane's hy"d grandson. He was also forbidden from speaking with a list of 100 of his friends and acquaintances.


In the year תשס״ו/2006, months after the Israeli Government expelled almost 10,000 Jews from their homes and land in Gaza and the Northern Shomron (Samaria), three teenage girls from K'far Tapu'ah sat in prison because of their participation in demonstrations against the expulsion, and were also not supposed to be released until final court proceedings "because they will talk with the other residents of their town." And what was the problem if they were to speak with their neighbors? Because they might have influence over them.

OMG! (eyes rolling)

Perhaps those who still claim that the State of Israel is a Jewish, democratic state will wake up and see that this is not at all the case, and that there is no such thing here as "freedom of speech."

Unfortunately, the probably won't.

The Truth About the Black Non-Hebrews

י״ח לחודש הרביעי תשע״ז

The Black Hebrews are actually the Black NON-Hebrews. Let's call 'em what they really are, because they are certainly NOT Jewish.

"The Black Non-Hebrews include thugs who beat up Jewish senior citizens in the '70's in Chicago. They came to Liberia, were kicked out of Liberia, and settled in Dimona in the Negev Desert. They have been allowed to stay here, only because they threatened mass-suicide, until the Israeli government caved."

-paraphrased from Rabbi Me'ir Kahane hy"d, in a response to a question about this community on talk radio.

Currently, they enjoy defacto autonomy. New members appear to come to Israel at will, or with their leadership's permission. Some now live in Tel-Aviv and other cities.

They make up observances according to their leaders' decisions and "interpretations:"

Fasting on Shabboth

Polygyny, in defiance of Israeli Law, while Jews are prohibited from this practice

Tying a blue braid on their [closed] shirts and pants as if these were tzitziyoth

Making a new date for Pesah

They are a complete mockery of Torah and Israel. They are koferim (deniers of some or all of the Torah), just like the Christians and Muslims (Mishneh Torah, Laws of Repentance 3:17).

Once, I confronted one of their youth, selling CD's next to the central bus station in Jerusalem. He was very clear when he yelled back at me, proclaiming that they are the "real" Israelites, and that we are the fakes,...and he was talking about all of us, not just one particular subgroup.

Of course, there are now several infiltrators into Israel from Africa, who lay claim to our heritage and birthright, and wander around South Tel-Aviv and other areas in Israel, threatening Jews.

That all being said, there are some who have successfully escaped this community, have come to realize the lies they were living, and have gone through proper conversion.

Read more about the Black Non-Hebrews at Tomer Devorah.

Do Jews Really Want to Destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque?

ערב שבת קודש פר׳ פקודי
ראש החודש השנים עשר ב׳ תשע״ו

YNET: Netanyahu mentions Mufti al-Husseini in speech
The Prime Minister spoke at an event marking the 100th birthday of late PM Yitzhak Shamir. He compared today's Palestinian terrorism to that of the 1920s, saying, "The Mufti claimed the Jews were going to destroy al-Aqsa."

Itamar Eichner: 02.29.16

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned the Mufti Amin al-Husseini Sunday night at a speech in Jerusalem, comparing Arab incitement of the 1920s to the incitement of the current terror wave.

During his speech at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center marking what would have been late former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's 100th birthday, Netanyahu said that the "terrorism in the '20s, when my grandfather came to Israel, was also fed by the claim of Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini that the Jews were going to destroy the al-Aqsa mosque and build the third temple in its stead. Sound familiar to you?"

Last October, Netanyahu instigated controversy when he said, in a speech at the World Zionist Congress, that the Mufti inspired the Nazi final solution during a meeting with Adolf Hitler. According to that speech, Hitler intended on expelling the Jews from Europe rather than exterminating them, but his mind was changed, at least in part, by al-Husseini. After his words were widely condemned, the PM recanted.

This time, Netanyahu said, "the incitement is ongoing, and terror waves come and go, and the attempts to explain it with the despair and frustration of Palestinians are incorrect. That statement absolves them of responsibility for their actions, for their terror that has been accompanying us for almost 100 years, before the establishment of the state and before there were territories and settlements, when there was a diplomatic process and when there wasn’t. (cont.)

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
The Prime Minister was wrong to recant his statement about the Mufti's incitement and role in the Holocaust.

Grand Mufti Al-Husseini with Hitler ysh"w
May their names and memories be blotted out!

He was also way off when he said that "their [Arab] terror that has been accompanying us for almost 100 years." Just read the Tana"kh (The Bible) and Jewish accounts of history following it, and you will see that ever since the birth of the Arabs' forefather Yishma'el, who is described as פרא אדם, a "wild man" (Gen. ), the People of Israel have suffered at their hands.

The Prime Minister was right about how "...the incitement is ongoing, and terror waves come and go...."

It is all part of the same cycle...

(Click on the image to enlarge it.)

...which is why it is so frustrating that the Prime Minister, just like all of his predecessors, refuses to do all that is necessary to achieve a permanent end to Arab terror from within Israel,...ALL of Israel.

Now regarding the Jews' desire to destroy the mosques, aren't religious Jews supposed to believe that the Beth HaMiqdash (the Temple) will be re-built? Don't we pray three times a day for the coming of the Mashi'ah, who will rebuild the Beth HaMiqdash, if we fail to do so before his arrival?

Well, the answer to this question can be found in a humorous story I once heard...

Rabbi Meir Kahane hy"d (left) was asked this very question regarding the mosques on Har HaBayith, and the rebuilding of the Beth HaMiqdash. Rabbi Kahane's response to this was not to bother to destroy the mosques, and just build the Beth HaMiqdash in between them. Why? Because if the mosques were destroyed (somehow), then the State would just end up building the Arabs bigger and better ones.

And there you have it, the perfect summary of both the State of Israel, and the state of Israel, more worried about how the non-Jewish, "international community" sees us, than how we see ourselves, let alone how The Almighty, sees us.

We are afraid, afraid of the State, afraid of the goyim. Even though we are only supposed to fear The Almighty,...The Holy One, Blessed Be He.

Torture is Acceptable When it is Against Jewish Dissidents

י״א לחודש העשירי תשע״ו

Arutz 7: ISA 'sexually harassed' Duma suspect
Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir demands immediate end to investigation after suspect confesses under duress, calls for investigation into ISA.

Yoni Kempinski, 12/22/2015

Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is representing Jewish suspects arrested over the Duma arson attack in July, announced Tuesday morning that the main suspect provided evidence that the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) sexually harassed him during the course of their interrogations.

"The sexual harassment against my client damages all that is sacred to him, his values of Torah observance and the commandments," Ben-Gvir stated, adding that his client had been sleep-deprived for an extended period of time.

"After the interrogators passed the initial stages of interrogation and my client stuck to the truth, they simply received a license to kill," he continued, adding that the interrogators may have sodomized him. "At some point four thugs entered his room, beat him, and tied him to his bed."

"The descriptions are shocking and appalling: they tied him upside down and beat him again and again, until he screamed 'Enough! Leave me alone, let me go, I didn't do anything!'" Ben-Gvir said. "They broke him. I believe very much that there are doubts that any confession he made are usable in court. They beat him into a shadow of a person." 

"The things my client said have no weight, because any person in this situation would admit to anything," he added. "I think that each and every citizen of Israel would admit the charges against him in this case."(cont.)

What does the Prime Minister say to this?

PM Binyamin Netanyahu

YNET: Netanyahu backs Shin Bet as right-wing protests continue
Ministers Bennett, Shaked and Ya'alon also come out in defense of the Israel Security Agency amid allegations of torture of Jewish suspects in Duma arson; 15 protesters arrested during demonstrations against Shin Bet. 

YNET reporters, new agencies: 12.22.15

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement of support on Tuesday to the Shin Bet, condemning criticism of the agency surrounding allegations of torture used against the Jewish suspects arrested in connection with the arson in Duma that claimed the lives of three members of the Dawabsheh family. 

Yoram Cohen, ISA Head
Is that a kippah on his head?

"Director Yoram Cohen and his personnel are doing important and excellent work for the people of Israel and for the security of Israel. I find the attacks on them to be unacceptable," Netanyahu said. 

Jewish extremists have for years vandalized or set fire to Palestinian property, as well as mosques, churches, the offices of left-wing Israeli groups and even Israeli military bases. The so-called "price tag" attacks seek to exact a cost for Israeli steps seen as favoring the Palestinians. (cont.)

Well, YNET has certainly gotten that wrong. Jews want a Torah State Kingdom, not an assimilationist, Erev Rav-controled State, hellbent on battling against the Torah, destroying anything even remotely recognizeable as Jewish within the Divinely Promised Land of Israel.

Palestinians Arabs are only a small part of it.

The Prime Minister continued...

He called for the end of the "cynical political incitement against the Shin Bet and its people, who are acting in accordance with the law, with a close and strict legal guidance, and the investigation they are conducting is meant to bring uncurbed terrorists to justice."

Acting in accordance with the law? Which "law" would that be?

Here is a photo of a segment of a court transcript from the December 16, 2015 hearing of one of the imprisoned boys...

@AriWaxman

Translation:
Q: Do you need any medical treatment?
A: For my back, maybe.
Q: What is going to happen now, is that your lawyer will come in and ask questions!
A: I can't anymore (cries).
Q: They have requested an additional extension of detention a few more days. I should hear from your parents and your lawyer?
A: But they don't know what they're doing to me there, and entire night of abuse. I said to them they will kill me, and don't do that to me. Give me poison. I beg your honor, [I] can't anymore. (suspect cries)Q: I will hear the lawyer and the investigative unit's representative, and before I decide, I will call you. 

Now, watch this video demonstration video from HaKol HaYehudi (The Jewish Voice), and see if you agree if these practices are "in accordance with the law."



Previous news reports indicated that the torture included being kicked in the genitals, until one of the boys could not feel anything. The message here is clear. The Erev Rav not only wants to castrate the power of their emunah (faith), but wants to stop them from procreating,...literally. This is what following the Torah, and giving it precedence of State law, will get you!

If the victims of ISA abuse had been Arabs, we were never hear the end of it. In fact, the ISA recently came out bragging at how well it treated, the now dead, Hezbollah leader Samir Kuntar while he was in custody.

And speaking of Minister Naftali Bennett...

Naftali Bennett losing his kippah and working his magic!

כיפה: בנט על חקירת עצורי דומא: הכל במסגרת החוק

שר החינוך תוקף את אנשי תג מחיר: "זה טרור שמטרתו לקעקע את יסודות המדינה. הם מנסים לחולל מלחמת גוג ומגוג. צריכים להפעיל נגדם יד קשה"

אפרת קרסנר, כיפה י טבת תשע"ו, 22/12/2015 

שר החינוך התייחס גם לעדויות על התנהלות החקירות בשב"כ ואמר כי כל החקירה מפוקחת ומבוקרת "שמענו המון דברים ואני יכול לומר שהפעולות שמבוצעות הן פעולות בבקרה ובפיקוח משפטי צמוד ובמטרה למנוע את הפיגוע הבא. אנחנו יודעים לסמוך על השב"כ, השב"כ מגן עלינו יום יום מפני אלפי פיגועים פוטנציאליים וצריך לסמוך עליו גם בפעולה הזאת".

Kippah: Bennett concerning the investigation of the Duma detainees: Everything is within the law
The Education Minister attacked those with "price tag:" "This is terror which aims to destroy the foundations of the state. They are trying to bring about the War of Gog and Magog. [We] need to work against them harshly.

Efrat Krasner, 10 Teveth 5776, 22/12/15 

...The Minister of Education also addressed to evidence of the handling of the interrogations by the ISA and said that the investigation is monitored and controlled, "We have heard a lot of things and I can say that the actions implemented are actions under tight legal control and supervision to prevent the next attack. We know [we can] trust the ISA, the ISA protects us every day from thousands of potential attacks and [you] need to trust it on this [course] of action as well...."

(Tip: The Jewish Libertarian)

Bennett, who just approved the building of a new Arab College (as if that's going to appease them) uses the most ridiculous, circular reasoning here.

Defense Minister Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon

Defense Minister Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon has already criticized Jews protesting the, now cancelled, destruction of a synagogue in Giv'ath Ze'ev, for wanting a Torah state. Apparently, he believes to be a bad thing.

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked seems to think she knows some about Torah by randomly citing דרך ארץ קדמה לתורה "Appropriate behavior takes precedence over Torah." And I suppose that she thinks that it is OK not to keep Shabbath, too, as long as she behaves appropriately. Guess what. A Jew keeping Shabbath IS appropriate behavior. Food for thought.

And speaking of Torah, there is story regarding the outlawing of Rabbi Kahane's Kach Party in the 1980's. Then Supreme Court Justice Menachem Elon, father of Christian-loving, former MK Rabbi Benny Elon, and Beth Din convicted, sexual manipulator Moti Elon, told Rabbi Kahane hy"d that he did not know what Torah he followed, and that they followed different Torahs.

Israeli Supreme Court Justices

I wonder what "Torah" Bennett and Cohen follow. Honesty, it seems more and more, that they are just making up as they go along, meticulously replacing the Land of Israel with the State, the Torah with Israeli State Law, and the Supreme Court as the Sanhedrin, most of the justices disqualified from serving on a proper, Jewish court.

The Israeli Supreme Court, which supposedly has oversight over the ISA's treatment of those in its custody, is to blame. Just another battle in its anti-Torah agenda for Jewish People.

Actually, I take that back. They're all culpable, standing so proudly next to the flag of the State of Israel, none of them appearing to be experiencing any shame over this. What does that tell you about the "holy" State of Israel? Or worse, what does this tell you of the current spiritual state of the Jews allowing this to happen, even supporting it?

Please pray for the safety, recovery, and freedom of the following Jewish political dissidents being held prisoners:

Meir David Chai Ettinger

Mordechai Eliyahu Meyer

Evyatar Slonim

Binyamin Richter

Yehudah Savir

Nachman Tuito

Shlomo Tuito

Moshe Orbach

Yinon Reuveni

Guest Post: Our Defense to the World

כ״א לחודש השמיני תשע״ו

Moshe Schwartz

My fascination with how hasbara and pro Israel activism works has reached epic levels as of late. I never understood the groveling like mentality that lacks both pride and dignity. When I see other nations and cultures around the world and how they justify on the most basic of levels their existence we can surely learn a lesson from them. Take for example Muslims and their countries. They do not try to justify to the world their claim using any international law other then to distract or delay. They simply say this is ours because Islam says so. Another example would be Xian claims to anything and everything based on their religious texts. Although they have become more civilized and refined the foundational principle for them as well this is our claim because our texts say so. On a side note this is why the missionary issue here is actual secondary when it comes to Xian issues here in Israel. The next case we can look at is just as simplistic. What about those who have no religion? What about the atheist? Well their claim to anything is just as simple. Their claim is based on sociological premises whether one end of the political spectrum or the other. This would include any system of secularized government might be over simplifying things but perhaps the problem is many have over complicated and over analyzed things. Perhaps we can learn from everyone else in this instance and stick to the basic foundational principle. The original concept sort of speak. If the world does not understand should that mean we should look for lesser explanations that divert from where our plumb line originated? Surely not. It seems we always cry why doesn't the world get it even when we explain things on their terms and even if they do our message has become diluted or distorted.
I have spoken many times to many Jews who employ the standard Hasbara protocol and ask them why not just be more transparent and in effect more honest about what Israel was, is and will be? The typical response is because we need their support and this is the only way we can achieve it. So let me get this straight. When Arafat spoke English to the world and Arabic to his people we found that unacceptable yet we essentially use the exact same tactic of subterfuge?

Here is a strange and out of date concept for most involved in pro Israel advocacy and especially for my fellow Jews. Get ready because we might even lose support from many of our "friends" and even fellow Jews for being honest. Israel was promised to us Jews by Hashem under a conditional promise. The blueprint on how we should govern Israel is not to be found in any document established by Herzl or Ben Gurion or the Knesset. The blueprint for an actual Jewish homeland and not a state for the Jews can be found in our Torah and even explained by men who understood it much better then anyone in government such as the Rishonim and Chazal. Our right to live in Israel is not based on we are currently a democratic nation or some notion of indigenous rights or by approval of the UN. If this was the case then it is no Jewish right and indeed we have no reason to complain about our current situations as we wonder why we do not control our Holy sites. Or why our government does not look out for Jews. Our why we have blatant and obvious enemies in our government. If the activist community that is pro Israel continues to try to water down and dilute Israel and if we continue to support this pathetic undignified Hasbara then it should be no surprise to anyone why the world is not only against but has no respect for a Jewish Israel. Let us not try to reason with the world on their level anymore. We have tried that route far too long. If we can support and actively promote a Jewish homeland instead of a homeland for Jews how can we even expect the world to? And if they do not that is between them and Hashem, if we do not it is between us and Hashem.

So let em ask how successful has all this activism for Israel been for actually promoting a Jewish Israel and if you are an activist for Israel whether Jew or not do you water down or dilute a Jewish Israel just to make it palatable for people who would never support a Jewish Israel? If you do then congratulations you are officially part of Hasbara. You are one of the Hasbara folks that look to elevate a State for Jews that promotes anything as long as their is loyalty to the State first and if we are lucky you will throw some Jewish scraps in the mix. Yes, I know ultimately this is what you can sell to the world because the last thing any non Jew would want that supports the State of Israel is a Jewish Israel.

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*My thanks and appreciation especially to Donny Fuchs and Nathaniel Feingold for numerous conversations on the phone and their ideas have also inspired me to write this. Without saying my main inspiration is simply the Torah. Lastly but definitely not least is the Rav who through his writings gave me clarity on this matter and many others, Rav Meir Kahane Z"L.*

On Rabbi Meir Kahane's 25 Yartzeit: Torah vs. State

י״ט לחודש השמיני תשע״ו

Rabbi Meir Kahane hy"d

This Shabboth marked 25 years since the murder of Rabbi Meir David Kahane hy"d, at the hands of the FBI-handled El Sayyid Nosair.

For this year's yartzeit, I will take the opportunity to give you some of my impressions of Rabbi Kahane, based on a prompt from a friend on Facebook.

I love when I hear Israeli activists "talk tough" but stay away from Rav Meir Kahane's words because they view them as extreme. News flash, most of what Kahane said was about core Jewish values from the Torah. I guess all these activists know what is better for Israel.....*sigh*.

During this string, the issue of "coexistence" came up.

Rabbi Kahane’s position against coexistence was not based on emotions, as is so often the case in Western “progressive” culture, in other words the culture of American and European galuth (exile). His position was, and is, based on Torah reasoning, devoid of emotional influence. His emotions expressed in his speeches were due to his passion for the truth, and frustration over the inability of the Jewish People to see it.

Almost no one has been able to refute his halakhic (Torah legal) claims, falling back on name-calling and demonizing instead. Those who have attempted to do so, have done so with questionable arguments, or with arguments which have not held up to halakhic scrutiny.

Rav Kahane’s greatest “crime” was to quote Biblical verses and halakhic statements from the podium in the Knesseth. My favorite was his mention of the Ramba”m’s Laws of Kings and their Wars, chapter 3.

י [ט] ...ואין צריך לומר אם גזר המלך לבטל מצוה, שאין שומעין לו.

10 [9] ...needless to say, if the King rules the cancelling of a mitzvah, one does not heed him.

The mention of this is not just about whether non-Jews may reside in Eretz Yisra'el (Land of Israel), or marry Jews, issues for which Rabbi Kahane was particularly known, but any situation in which a strirah (conflict) exists between Torah Law and State laws, such as the giving away for Land and the throwing of Jews out of their homes. 

Many mamlakhtim (die-hard State loyalists) have been taught that the Knesseth is a stand-in for the King today. So qal we'homer (even more so) does this halakhah apply.

In 2005, even “mainstream” rabbis such as Rabbi Avraham Shapira ztz”l, the late Rosh Yeshivah of Merkaz HaRav told soldiers not only to sit in jail, before throwing Jews out of their homes, but to be proud doing so. But the mamlakhti “rabbis” with the money and powerful publicity machine, not to mention the support from the government, quashed Rabbi Shapira's message, and continue to do the same to any rabbi attempting to point such conflicts between the Torah and the State. Thus most Jews outside of Jerusalem never heard that he said this, and when they finally did, most would not believe it.

It is no wonder that years before, Rabbi Kahane once said that sitting in jail for the sake of Am Yisrael (Torah, Eretz Yisrael, etc.) should be a requirement for being called “rabbi.” Machon HaMiqdash (Temple Institute's) Rabbi Yisra'el Ariel was one who fulfilled this requirement.

The very popular mamlakhti rabbi, Shlomo Aviner, who helped to throw Jews out of their homes in Azza (Gaza/Gush Qatif), referred to Rabbi Kahane as a “walking Sefer Torah.” I guess he was right about something.

Rabbi Kahane attempted to work within the system to facilitate the process of infusing Torah into the State of Israel, already in existence. In the end, he discovered that this was not going to work. Play by the rules, make gains, and the those in control simply change the rules.

Years later Moshe Feiglin (Likud), would also find this out the hard way. In the last election, MK's Eli Yishai and Yoni Chetboun (Yachad) were prevented from re-entering the Knesseth, because of thousands of fake balloting cards being smuggled into polling booths to replace the real ones. And so all of these votes, 12,000 of them were disqualified,…by the Arab judge, supervising the "fairness" of the elections.

Israeli democracy, or rather deMOCKracy, was time and again revealed to be nothing more than a hypocritical instrument in the maintenance of the citizens' loyalty to the State, above all other loyalties.

The Arab who killed Rabbi Meir Kahane may have done so, because of how he felt. The Arabs who killed Rabbi Binyamin Kahane may have done so for the same reasons. And the same could be said about the Arabs now threatening Rabbi Kahane's imprisoned grandson, Meir Ettinger. But in actuality, these Arabs are not trying to kill Jews, they particularly hate. Rather, they are attempting to kill the truth.

As the Ramba"m states...

הל׳ תשובה ג,יז
שלושה הן הכופרים בתורה: ...(3) והאומר שהבורא החליף מצוה זו במצוה אחרת, וכבר בטלה תורה זו, אף על פי שהיא הייתה מעם ה', כגון הנוצריים וההגריים...

Laws of Repentance 3:17
These three are deniers of the Torah: ...(3) and the one who says that the Creator has changed this mitzvah for another mitzvah, and has already cancelled this Torah, even though was from HaShem, such as the Christians and the Muslims, each of these denies the Torah.

Rabbi Kahane also warned Christian missionaries to stay away from Eretz Yisra'el.

The basis for the negative mitzvah of לא ישבו בארצך ("they will not settle in your Land") is to prevent kefirah (denial) of the truth from being present in the Land and influencing us negatively.

But, Rabbi Kahane's message was not just about about the dangers of coexistence with goyim, how it would not only not work, but how it would be the end of us. Rabbi Kahane's message went even further, and concerned the importance of Jews living according to Jewish principles (ie. Torah), and not the Western/non-Jewish principles we picked up over the last 1,700 years in the golah (exile).

As I write this, I wonder when Jews will realize the dangers of further attempts at coexistence between Torah and State.

With the Israeli Supreme Court calling the shots on one hand, and the Israeli Government using them as an excuse, if not overtly battling against Torah principles themselves, and the mamlakhti "rabbis" standing by to keep the wool pulled over our eyes, defending of their holy State, it seems to be a fairly futile cause, attempting to combine the two.

Unfortunately this is the state (and the State) in which we are currently living.

There is a conflict, and we are all going to have to choose.

Meir (ben Tovah) Ettinger, is sitting in administrative detention, without being charged, let alone having been indicted or convicted of any crime, because he has chosen loyalty to HaShem and His Holy Torah, rather than the State.