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Teshuvos Ibra, chapter 9, section 1: The State of Israel Siman 106: Our obligation regarding Eretz Yisroel I would like to make a short introduction about the relationship of religious Jews to the government. Chazal have already commanded us that we must give honor to the government and even in the government of Eretz Yisrael,…

Rabbi Ovadiah Hedaya (Shailos Uteshuvos Yaskil Avdi, v. 5, second introduction, paragraph 3, published in 1958) argues that the state was permitted based on Rabbi Chaim Vital’s statement in his introduction to Etz Chaim, that the oath only applied for one thousand years from the destruction of the Temple. The Satmar Rebbe (Vayoel Moshe 70-72)…

STATEMENT BY THE COUNCIL OF THE ASHKENASIC JEWISH COMMUNITY JERUSALEM Presented to UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PALESTINE Jerusalem July 1947 – 1 – The Orthodox Jewish Community of Jerusalem which is organised as the Vaad Hair Ha-Ashkenasi ( Council of the Ashkenasic Jewish Community of Jerusalem) has the honour of extending its hearty and…

The Chazon Ish said: Who in our time is considered a frumme apikoros (a religious heretic)? Anyone who claims that it is the fault of the rabbis that 6 million Jews were murdered in Europe, and anyone who celebrates Independence Day (Mishkenos Haro’im, p. 1197) The Zionist Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Rabbi Unterman, showed…

This week we present a collection of Divrei Torah and stories on the subject of following the majority. Follow the majority opinion. (Shemos 23:2) At the Knessia Gedolah of Agudath Israel in Marienbad, 1937, the central topic of discussion was the recent proposal of England’s Peel Commission to partition Palestine, designating a piece for a…

The belief in the coming of moshiach is one of the thirteen principles in which every Jew must believe: to look forward to and wait for that great time when he will come. Therefore, one should not be in doubt about this even for a moment, but rather he must believe clearly that the word…

In the summer of 1937, the third convention (knessiah) of Agudath Israel was held in Marienbad. It was attended by hundreds of rabbis, heads of yeshivas and grand rabbis of Chassidic communities from a number of countries. Rabbi Aharon Kotler attended this convention. The central topic of discussion was the recent proposal of Britain’s Peel…

From The Jewish Observer, October 1977 “Holocaust” – A Study Of The Term, And The Epoch It Is Meant To Describe, from a discourse by Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner Shlit”a, translated by Chaim Feuerman and Yaakov Feitman Yeshiva and dayschool principals from across the nation posed the questions to RABBI YITZCHOK HUTNER שליטא, Rosh HaYeshiva of Mesivta Rabbi Chaim…

It happened in the fledgling Slabodka Yeshiva in Bnei Brak. The war was still raging in Europe; the angel of death had almost full reign in the killing fields of Europe. As Lithuania was being decimated Rabbi Isaac Sher resolved to rebuild from scratch in the Holy Land, and founded the Slabodka Yeshiva in Bnei…

Rabbi Shneur Kotler said, “People call the Satmar Rav’s ideas a shitah, but it is not. He proves in Vayoel Moshe that this is what Shas and poskim, Rishonim and Acharonim all held. What he holds is what all gedolei Yisroel once held. On the contrary, our Agudah shitah is a new shitah: that in…