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If that is not the most incredible statement. He hates Charedim. The former head of defense hates Charedim. He won't join in any coaltion that includes Charedim. It's astonishing. Do Charedim factor so much in his life? Do Charedim have any real power? Who owns the banks, runs the universities, leads the military, manages the corporations, sits on the High Court, publishes the newspapers? It's not Charedim. Charedim are a relatively powerless group, a low income group. There's some control over marriage licensing and public bus schedules on Shabbos. Not much more that. It is relatively minor. But this creature hates Charedim so much that he'll hold up the government formation once again even though Likud is all set to annex half of area C. He'll put a hold on that, even though he wants it too, just because he hates Charedim so much. It's not rational. Reminds us of you know who.
It's pretty weird. Esav? Amalek? You tell me.
Rav Avigdor Miller on Amalek’s Brotherly Impudence
Q:
Why did Amalek attack the Jewish people when they knew that Hashem had just performed remarkable miracles for them?
A:
Now we have to know who Amalek was. Amalek wasn’t such a wicked nation as we think. The fact is, the children of Yisro all throughout history associated with Amalek; they lived together with them. You remember when Shaul came to battle against Amalek, he had to send a messenger to the Bnei Keini warning them to separate from Amalek because he’s going to war against them now. Now, the Bnei Keini, children of Yisro, they wouldn’t live with Amalek if Amalek was that bad.
The answer is this:
Amalek was a brother. Amalek was the children of Eisav and nobody is an enemy like a
brother who turns sour. The worst enemies that we have
are Jews that turn bad. Who were the ones who battled that the Nazis should
be recognized by the Supreme Court as a legitimate
organization? Jews! The ACLU, the American Criminal Liberties
Union, they got fifty thousand dollars from a Jew named Neier for that
purpose. And the United Hebrew Federations of Los Angeles gave their first
annual award to Neier. So the Federation of Charities gave their first
annual award to Neier for a special service to the Jewish people. And
he was the one who gave fifty thousand dollars to get the Nazis
recognized.
Throughout history,
our worst enemies have been Jews. You have to know that. In the
communist upheaval, when the Bolsheviks took over, we suffered from the
Jewish communists more than from anybody else. They were the ones that
sent Reb Dovid Rappaport to his death; a gadol baTorah, the Tzemach Dovid, a rosh yeshiva.
They packed him off to a concentration camp where he died.
They sent off tzaddikim, gedolim to their deaths. They were the worst
ones. Trotsky, yimach
shmo v’zichro, Leon Trotsky was one of the worst enemies of the
Jewish people.
And therefore we have
to remember that Amalek was a brother. Amalek was Esav’s grandson – he
was a brother of the Jewish people and therefore he had more sinah than anybody
else. So all the nations heard, שמעו עמים ירגזון
– The nations heard and
they trembled. But Amalek was a brother and therefore he
mustered enough impudence to attack the Am
Yisroel. He wanted to show – “It’s nothing.” He wanted
to demonstrate to the nations, “Don’t be impressed by these people;
they’re frummies.
We know them. My grandfather had business with their ancestor,
Yaakov. He’s a crook. He’s a ramai.”
And that’s why they went out to fight against our people and nobody else did.
Because a brother who is no good is the worst enemy.
TAPE # 268 (June 1979) |
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