Religious leaders from all sides of national-religious spectrum strongly condemn Jewish ‘acts of revenge’ against Arab targets. Chief military rabbi urges yeshiva heads to act against phenomenon
ed note–This is as blatent a lie as one could tell concerning the real nature of Judaism. We present here just A FEW small excerpts of the Torah, specifically those that instruct the Jews to do EXACTLY what has been done here in the so-called ‘price tag’ attacks.
“And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, ‘Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan, then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places, and ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it. ” Numbers 33:50-56
“And when the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou…And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them…Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son…For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly…But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire…For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. Deuteronomy 7:1-8
Chief Military Rabbi Brigadier-General Rafi Peretz has demanded that hesder yeshiva rabbis condemn “price tag” activities and act against them, in light of the torching of a mosque in the northern Arab village of Tuba Zangaria and the desecration of Arab graves in Jaffa.
Peretz spoke Sunday during a conference organized by the Hesder Yeshivot Association for dozens of yeshiva heads. “The ‘price tag’ phenomenon must be strongly condemned,” he said. “I expected yeshiva heads to act against this phenomenon.”
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Rabbi Haim Drukman, a member of the Hesder Yeshivot Association’s management, who attended the event, joined in on the IDF rabbi’s remarks, saying that “price tag” activities were “strictly prohibited”.
Two of the most senior Religious Zionism rabbis, Ramat Gan Rabbi Yaakov Ariel and Safed Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, issued a joint statement of condemnation against the recent incidents.
“We heard about the torching of the mosque in Tuba Zangaria and the desecration of graves in Jaffa. These acts are prohibited and completely contradict the way of Torah, and therefore we believe and hope that they were not committed by Jews.”
Another issue discussed during the conference was women’s singing in the IDF, following the dismissal of cadets from an officers’ course after walking out of a military event in protest of female soldiers’ performance.
“The starting point is working together with the army,” said Rabbi Peretz, stating that “nothing will come between me and the army, even if the world turns over.”
He sought to appease the rabbis by saying that the religious public’s absolute loyalty to the IDF was clear to the army leaders. The yeshiva heads, on their part, expressed their support for the Military Rabbinate’s way of handling the affair, following criticism voiced against the army rabbi in recent weeks.
The Hesder Yeshivot Association issued a statement saying that the rabbis fully support the Military Rabbinate and its chief in terms of halachic issues in the IDF and handling “sensitive issues which have been on the agenda recently.”
Rabbi Drukman added, “The Military Rabbinate institutions in the IDF must be strengthened rather than weakened. The Military Rabbinate headed by Rabbi Peretz has reached significant achievements in a variety of fields related to the integration of Halacha into the IDF.
“We have no other Military Rabbinate, and therefore we must all unite and offer our support for the handling of the complex reality it faces in light of the sensitive issues surrounding the relations between Halacha and the army.”
