When I say "Kookist" philosophy, I may be doing a serious disservice to Rabbi Kook. All I really know about it has come from inferior sources - those translated into English and censored by his students. However, I also know that the gedolei hador of his generation had complaints against him and judging by the fruit of his teachings produced by subsequent generations, something failed somewhere.
As I understand it, this was the source of the idea that sinat chinam can only be rectified by ahavat chinam. The Religious Zionists made this a primary pillar of their nationalist hashkafah and fulfilled it by uniting as much as possible with anti-Torah elements of society, excusing their rebellion against God by labeling them tinokot shenishbu - like children kidnapped at birth and raised with no knowledge of being Jewish.
Unfortunately, it did nothing to solve the inherent problem of sinat chinam as, in my experience, the baseless hatred was simply transferred from the secular Jews to the Hareidi Jews, who really were the blameless ones, in my view. The hatred towards Hareidim really was "baseless" while hatred of rebels against God's Torah is a mitzvah.
Misplaced ahavah is just as dangerous as misplaced sinah!
Nowhere is this more evident than in the electoral process that passes for democratic rule in the State of Israel. How many so-called National "Religious" Jews vote with anti-Torah parties for what they likely judge to be pragmatic reasons, thereby enabling the continued strangle-hold the Erev Rav have over us?
March 13, 2020. . . In the third round of Knesset elections, the party representing religious Zionism once again failed at the ballot box. Its opening position was promising: “Yamina” recruited a young, attractive and dynamic team of men and women, devoid of outside interests and with clear leadership potential, drawn from the various shades of religious Zionism.They enjoyed a one-time opportunity, albeit brief, to exert significant influence on the national scene by gaining control of a number of key ministries – defense, education, transport and (until recently) justice. But somehow the public was unimpressed, and gave them the cold shoulder at the polls.We must admit that there is a vast gulf between the very meager support the party received at the polls and the pretensions, rhetoric and sense of self-importance of the sector’s politicians. The outright support of leading rabbis and educators who, alas, made an irresponsible decision to get their hands dirty in the political quagmire, proved to be of no avail. Even the hope of attracting nonreligious nationalist voters was dashed. The cruel fact is that organized religious Zionism won only six mandates, or 5% of Knesset seats.
After survey respondents were asked for whom they would vote if new Knesset elections were held today, Netanyahu’s Likud emerged with 23 mandates (24 in the previous poll), National Unity, 20 (20), Yesh Atid, 16 (15), Yisrael Beiteinu, 15 (15), The Democrats, 11 (12), Shas, 10 (9), Otzma Yehudit, 8 (9), United Torah Judaism, 7 (7), Hadash-Ta’al, 6 (6), and Ra’am – 4 (4).The Religious Zionist Party, New Hope-United Right, and Balad remained below the electoral threshold.
Once thing this war has shown from the very beginning is more gas lighting from the Erev Rav. Just like the scamdemic where we saw how the national religious was the first group in the country to implement the government's tyrannical policies, even, joining the false accusations that Charedim spread the virus quickly because of their dense living conditions. This war was nothing more as a way of pitting the national religious against the Charedim and getting the rest of society to join in. As you said, they cozy up to the irreligious, even those who completely hate the Torah. After years of reading about Rav Kook and supporting his ideas, Baruch Hashem our eyes were opened. In this video clip Rav Avigdor Miller talks about why the gedolim had issues with him - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiLeOTV9trg
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the link AK - Rav Miller on Rav Kook
DeleteThis makes it sound like the State is an entity in and of itself and the people are either deemed good for it or bad for it. R"l.
ReplyDelete. . . Prof. Shai Stern, head of the Institute, concluded: “The State of Israel is standing at an important juxtaposition in its relations with the charedi community. ( Source)
It will be nice if sfaradim and ashkenazim will unite, honestly, there are not so much difference left, let's make a gift to Hashem, to our Father
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DeleteAgain, excellent post & comments. What I admire & respect most with the Tomer Devorah posts and ideaology is that you get right to the point, to the truth. Hard to find that elsewhere, except for a few sites.
ReplyDeleteMy opinion in respect to this major problem from the very start is/was
exactly what you write and I believe that for instance, the religious zionists as well as the rest of observant Jewry subconsciously, seem to veer to the outside secular world's prominence, in a way, the
dominance of the worldview and they put G-D aside, c'v. In other words, with all their emunah/bitachon in HKB'H, there is a subconsciousness that they are such a minority that they need to hold on to others, rather than putting their complete faith in Hashem.
So, rather than uniting together as G-D fearing Jews with the knowledge that only with H's Help will they succeed, their egos and
their faulty emunah takes over. What a shame, but maybe it's working that way because H' is always in control and hastening the undoiing of the State, for Moshiach's arrival. The form of governments, whether
republics or parliaments cannot really work and only the leadership
of the King of kings can work; that is Moshiach, the servant of
the Almighty King of the Universe.
emmess
That's very encouraging. Thank you. Chodesh tov!
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