While saying over the vort on this week’s Parsha HaShevua, a few thoughts occured to this author which are presented here.
One thought is about Ehud Olmert’s latest term for disengagement = expulsion (convergence, consolidation), ‘realignment.’
It would seem that Olmert looks at Medinat Yisrael as an out-of-alignment auto. Apparently those “crazy believing Jews” with their connection to Eretz Yisrael, have kareemed over too many speed-bumps and thrown the national auto out of alignment. Ergo, the latest name for Olmert’s hope — Expulsion of more Jews shall henceforth be known as “realignment”, until the rocket-scientists come up with still another synonym.
The second thought is based on a revisit of an Israel National News report about Modi’in’s Kiryat Sefer community and a Shushan Purim story;
Construction & Occupancy Suspended in Modiin Illit Neighborhood
Excerpts; March 16, 2006
The State Prosecutor’s office informed the High Court on Wednesday, during a hearing on the matter, that the State will not resume construction in the Matityahu neighborhood of Modi’in Illit (formerly known as Kiryat Sefer).
The announcement is in keeping with a Supreme Court interim ruling of two months ago. The order stated that construction on some 33 high-rise buildings must be halted, and that new residents – some of whom have already paid for their apartments – may not move in.
Peace Now claims it is not demanding that the buildings be razed. “It’s not our job to find a solution,” a spokesperson said. “We simply saw a law that had been broken, and therefore filed a suit in court. It’s the government’s job to find a solution.”
Asked if Peace Now would be satisfied with a ruling allowing the existing buildings to be occupied and ordering a halt to further construction, she said no, but refused to divulge further details.
The State Prosecution is considering launching a criminal investigation against the private contracting companies that built in the neighborhood.
This author recalls back to Shushan Purim and a visit made to a friend, a former Chaverusa. Having paricipated the Rav’s annual Gala Purim Bash, this author arrived at the friend’s to find that he was at a neighbor’s apartment. So, upon arriving at the neighbor’s and after being introduced to him, the neighbor, seeing this author in an orange Gush Katif cap, asked the following;
“Do you live in the ‘sh’tachim’? Strike one; as it is widely known that ‘sh’tachim’ is a derogatory term used by the left and by the regime to delegitimize and dehumanize the communities of Yehuda and Shomron and their residents. Response; “No, I live in Beit Shemesh.”
So the intrepid host goes further; “Why don’t you live in the ‘sh’tachim’? I wouldn’t live there. What do you think I am, crazy?” Strike two on the smug, elibriated Chareidi.
Why is this story related here? Going back to Yom P’kuda in mid-August last year, the Chareidi community collectively was found to have approached those days with a business-as-usual, seemingly uncaring attitude. As with any other day, they were either in Beis Medrash or the Shopping areas were full, business brisk, just like any other day, as if they were separate, distinct and totally divorced from the entire gut-wrenching, heart-rending tragedy of a Medinat Yisrael who expells Jews from a part of Eretz Yisrael, stealing their homes, land, possessions from them at legalized gunpoint.
Indeed, their Rabbanim commanded them not to even take part in the giant vigil of Tefillos 3 days before the expulsion began. Vivid in this author’s recollection is the fact that the political party to which many of these people subcribe; Aguda, otherwise known as “Gimmel”, represent themselves and purport to be “the party of the Gedolim”, joined Sharon’s coalition for a few hundred million shekels, thus facilitating the votes that carried the Expulsion into law.
To those of the Chareidi segment of Religious Jewry who went about their lives, business as usual, there must have been a great deal of shock when, 1 1/2 months after non-Chareidi religious Jews were both brought to leave their residences in Shalhevet neighorhood in Chevron under false pretenses; a broken agreement by the regime and after the police brutality tragedy in Amona, the Left went to court attempting to destroy another Jewish community, this time a Kiryat Sefer, Chareidi community.
Should the “Barak’s World” High Court of Justice, which ” … makes decisions: not by interpreting the law, but by creating new laws in the Knesset’s stead,” rule in a way permitting the regime to do to the Chareidim of Kiryat Sefer what they did in Gush Katif, in Chevron’s Shalhevet neighborhood and in Beit Shapira as well as in Amona, this author has no doubts that Beis Medrashim will empty all over Israel, that business won’t be brisk in the shopping areas, but that tens of thousands of Chareidim will be shoulder-to-shoulder with their fellows to prevent Chas V’Chalila, an uprooting.
And we, ALL religious Jews are, of principle, mandated to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Chareidim, even given the deep disagreements that we may have with them on various levels, to prevent such an act from taking place.
The reasons are two-fold; 1/ That they are our brothers, this is the Land of Israel and the preservation of their homes, properties and possession must be equally as important to us as those of our brethren from Gush Katif, of the 4 Shomron towns, of Amona, Shalhevet and Beit Shapira; 2/ the rule, the Halachic concept that when one encounters his friend whose donkey is overburdened and is collapsing under it’s load and when he also encounters his enemy who donkey is similarly overburdened and is collapsing under it’s load, he is commanded Halachically to first help his enemy.
One can only hope that the time speedily comes when non-Chareidim religious Jews can look to the Chareidim for the type of assistance expressed here. For at that moment, the unity of B’nei Yisrael will become reality. The Ge’ula will truly be close at hand! MB
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