11 Marcheshvan 5787
Yahrtzeit of Rachel Imeinu
On the Universal Zionist podcast, attorney Michael Decker tells Rabbi Tuly Weisz that Israel offers far more pathways for non-Jewish friends than most people realize, and that demand has never been higher.Most people assume the gates to Israel open only for Jews. Michael Decker spends his working life proving otherwise.Decker runs Decker, Pex, Levi Law Firm, one of the largest immigration firms in Israel and the address many non-Jews turn to when they want legal status in the Jewish state. His firm handles visas to the United States, European passports for descendants of Jews, and a steady flow of cases for people who want to live, work, study, or invest in Israel. Since October 7th, the flow has become a flood....A Visa for the Ger ToshavThis summer, Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan and Binyamin Regional Council head Israel Ganz announced honorary citizenship for Christian Zionists who stand with Judea and Samaria. The gesture was symbolic, and they asked Weisz to explore how to give it legal force.That research led him to rabbis in Israel who propose a visa for the ger toshav (resident non-Jew), the biblical category of a non-Jew who lives among Israel and keeps the seven Noahide laws.“Israel, even according to the Torah, was not only for the Jewish people,” Weisz said. “When Abraham lived here, it wasn’t only Jews here. When King David and King Saul were here, there were a lot of non-Jews.”The Bible commands Israel to love the stranger in its midst:“The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your G-d” (Leviticus 19:34). [A perverse distortion of the Torah as this refers to converts.]
The same framework draws a hard line. A community that rejects the basic universal code, that supports murder and terror, has no right to live in the land. Decker endorsed the idea and called for legitimate government pressure to make it policy.Weisz sees strategic value as well. Twelve countries recently moved against Israel over Judea and Samaria, largely to placate domestic constituencies. “If they knew there were thousands and thousands of people who had a legal connection to the State of Israel, it would make it much harder for countries to punish Israel,” he argued.For Weisz, Israel’s Christians are the textbook ger toshav. They believe in the G-d of the Bible and the Ten Commandments. “Strengthening the relationship with the gerei toshav here in Israel will only strengthen the Jewish nature and Jewish identity of Israel,” he said.
The conditions [for attaining ger toshav status] are as follows: 1) acceptance of the status of resident alien [non-citizen], with abandonment of idolatry and acceptance of the seven Noahide laws; 2) tribute; 3) servitude. ...without [servitude and tribute] a non-Jew cannot live in Eretz Yisrael. ("The Non-Jew in Eretz Yisrael," R. Kahane)
...Tribute and servitude were intended to underscore the inequality between Israel and the nations in Eretz Yisrael, and they must accept both. Accepting just one will not help them, for only through both will their submission be proven. ...A non-Jew dwelling in Eretz Yisrael must be an alien without ownership or mastery over the Land. (See Hilchot Melachim 6:1)
When all of the requirements are properly presented to the candidates (assuming they will be, but I would not bet on it!), how many will be willing to agree to this? It is very foreign to modern cultural norms to be forced to act submissively to anyone. They believe they are our equals or maybe even a little bit better, as many errant Jews like to tell them.
This is one reason the Druze do not qualify for ger toshav status...
Druze revolt: Why a tiny, loyal community is so infuriated by nation-state law
From the rooftop of Tel Aviv’s 12-story municipality building, the Druze community’s multi-colored flag and its elder members’ traditional headdresses were visible, and repeated chants of “equality” were audible.
Some tens of thousands of Israeli Druze and their supporters had nearly filled one of the city’s largest public spaces, Rabin Square, to protest the Knesset’s approval of the quasi-constitutional nation-state law.
“I feel like I have been abandoned by the government,” said Nimr, a middle-aged Druze soldier, who has served in the IDF for 26 years, alluding to the new law while sitting atop a speaker and clutching his community’s flag.
The nation-state law, which the Knesset passed with a 62-55 vote on July 19, enshrined Israel as “the national home of the Jewish people,” recognized Jewish holidays and days of remembrance and declared Hebrew the state’s national language.
The legislation included no reference to the equality of all Israeli citizens akin to the one made in Israel’s Declaration of Independence — which pledged that the nascent state would “ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex” — and it appeared to grant the Arabic language a lesser status than that of Hebrew.
Samir al-Asa’d, a 51-year-old retired lieutenant colonel who served in the military for 22 years, said that the law has let him down.
“Israel is my country,” declared As’ad, one of many organizers of the Saturday night protest, which drew a crowd of at least 50,000 Israelis — Druze and others. “I am proud to be an Israeli, but this law made me feel humiliated.”
Additionally, and perhaps even more importantly...
"We do not accept candidates for ger toshav except when the Jubilee is operative." (Hilchot Avoda Zarah 10:6)
Yovel is not currently "operative." (See HERE.)
The catch to the catch is, there is nothing preventing these Torah distorters from ignoring the halachah and doing as they please (except Hashem).
The ultimate idolatry is to place your own thoughts and feelings above the commands of HKB"H. As the prophet tells us (Shmuel Alef 15.22): "Behold, to obey is better than a peace-offering; to hearken is better than the fat of rams."
We knew that instinctively when we responded to Hashem's offer of the Torah with the words: "Na'aseh n'nishma."
Nissim Black said something that caught my attention. During his podcast, he said...
"They're doing everything they can to sever the relationship
with God-loving, Bible-believing Chr*stians and their connection
not only to the people of Israel but to the Land of Israel."
He seems to think that the Noahide issue and the concomitance of the Chr*stianity-as-idolatry question are very negative things, but as we said from the beginning...
"This is from Hashem, that which is wondrous in our eyes."
No doubt HKB"H has caused it to "go viral" in order to do just that - drive a wedge between Jews and Chr*stians. This illicit love affair has gone on way too long already.
But, there could be another reason, too. We know that the world as we've known it until now is about to end. The "viral" global message went out to the gentiles, what they need to know to get right with Hashem before free will comes to an end. And Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, acting as the two witnesses, have warned the gentiles of the penalty of violation of the Seven Laws, paving the way to their righteous judgment. Time just got a lot shorter.
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There used to be a commercial on TV in the olden days: "You deserve a break today." In reward for following me through all the smelly stuff to reach this point, you deserve a break from the antics of the Erev Rav and their partners in crime.
I want you to have the chance to bask in the real, unadulterated, 100% pure EMET!!! So, with this final video, we will wrap this subject up. The Final Word being: 1) Chr*stianity is without question idolatry, so Chr*stians cannot be considered as Noahides or gerei toshav, and 2) no one may legally be accepted as a ger toshav until the Yovel is reinstated, likely after Mashiach comes.
The Prohibition of Idolatry




