Thus Speaketh Daas Torah

"Religious Zionists are idiotic murderous Torah-hating Amalekites!"

For those who love to be dazzled by the Gedolim of Keren Olam HaTorah, or for those who are wondering if they should be dazzled, let’s share some of their recent insights and comments about the Jews of Israel during the Nine Days.

First we have HaRav Chaim Mordechai Ausband, Rosh Yeshiva of the prestigous Ateres Shlomo yeshivah (I inserted some minor comments):

“...We’ve gone through WWII and the Spanish Inquisition, but we are still Cholas Ahava for Hashem, and we continue to learn Torah m’toch d’chak (I’m not sure what he means by that; never were so many Torah students subsidized by others as in Israel today). In E”Y they have made it so difficult so that we will get to a point where we can’t go on anymore, much worse than simply learning m’toch d’chak which always has been the case, they want it to be far more difficult than that. They are working openly toward this goal - they want us to die from hunger (!!!) and so that we won’t have any food for our children... They are stealing money from us, it’s not their money to withhold from us. (The government is stealing money from charedim? Charedim withdraw far more from the public coffers than they put in!) More than half of the taxes go to the government to fund the police (actually less than 4%), so that they can take all that money and be rodef us and drag the yeshivaleit out of their beds and throw them into jail... (Actually the police arrest far fewer charedi draft-dodgers than non-charedi draft-dodgers, even though there are vastly more charedi draft-dodgers.)

“By government offices and courts, and in the streets, there is a great hatred against Bnei Torah. (Nobody hates Bnei Torah; there is only resentment against those who learn Torah rather than helping with the war.) I’m not talking about the frei, I’m talking about the Mizrachists. (Mizrachists certainly don’t hate Bnei Torah; they just believe that charedim are not genuine Bnei Torah, since they don’t do what the Torah says.) They are right now heading the war against us. By the entrance to Bnei Brak, the Mizrachi recently made protests holding up signs which said ‘Your brothers are going out to war, and you are sitting?’ They discovered new pesukim - I don’t know how they found about it, probably they got it from a newspaper. They don’t know from Anochi Hashem or from V’ohavta es Hashem, but this posuk they know. (So he has nothing to say regarding the message of the passuk other than to insult the Dati Leumi community as not knowing Tanach?!) A yungerman from Yerushalayim had to get to the hospital, and by Gush Tziyon where the Mizrachists live, he was waiting for a ‘tremp’, but none of the Mizrachists who drove by would stop for him to take him. They will not stop their car for a yungerman - since we do not want to take part in their war. (Their war?!)

“Greater is the hatred of an am ha’aretz to talmidei chochomim, than the hatred that the goyim have toward Yisroel” (Pesachim 49a). The Israeli Government is the Eirev Rav who are from zera Amalek - and that’s coupled together with the hatred of the am ha’aretz to the talmid chochom. A goy hates a Yid even if he wouldn’t be Amalek, but these wicked people have the hatred from Amalek, the hatred from the Eirev Rav and the hatred from the am ha’aretz - all together. They have the coupled hatred of Amaleki-am h’aretz in them. Of course, we have always had nothing to do with Mizrachi - but now they are going after our neshamos and bothering the frum Yidden and don’t want to leave us alone. (Is there not even the teensy-weeniest possibility that there is an IDF manpower crisis causing a crushing burden on the reservists and we want charedi to help rather than do nothing and demand money for it?)

“Rashi (in Shelach) brings, ‘Once a person abandons Torah study, immediately he goes to idol worship.’ They want us not only to leave the Gemara and leave the Beis Midrash and kollel (just for a short time to help us, they are welcome to right back afterwards) but also to immediately embrace the same avodah zarah that they serve. (What avodah zarah is that - saving lives?!) This is what we are seeing now. They will do everything so that we won’t learn. What do they care if someone isn’t a Mizrachi, what do they care if someone wants to be a Ben Torah?! (Erm, because endless thousands of people are collapsing under the burden of endless reserve duty?) All they want is to make sure that we won’t be in the Beis Midrash. You can see how anyone who isn’t in the Beis Midrash becomes a hater of the Torah...”

Now, should you think that this vile and slanderous diatribe is only from an aberrant figure or a second-tier Gadol, here’s a video of the number one in the Charedi Litvishe world, Rav Dov Landau himself, addressing the Roshei Yeshivah of Mir who are chuckling along:

Here, the “Gadol HaDor” declares that dati-leumi Jews are a bunch of “foolish” “evil” “murderers” who send soldiers to kill Arabs not for the sake of protecting lives, but just for the “glory of the state.” It’s not clear on what basis he slanders the entire Dati Leumi community in this way, nor what he thinks about who is actually engaged in missions to save the lives of people in Israel, or even if he does think about it at all. Remember, this is the same person who said that it would have been better had the state not come into existence, and millions of Jews fleeing Europe could have lived here in peace with the Arabs.

If anyone thinks that the charedi world is correct in platforming these people as wise, moral leaders, they need their heads examining. And if anyone cannot call this out for the evil drivel that it is, they are moral cowards.