{"id":1165,"date":"2006-05-02T20:03:10","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T18:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/02\/the-yom-hatzmaot-dilemma\/"},"modified":"2006-05-02T20:06:05","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T18:06:05","slug":"the-yom-hatzmaot-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/02\/the-yom-hatzmaot-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yom Hatzma&#8217;ot Dilemma &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news.php3?id=102932\"><strong>Beit El&#8217;s Rabbi: Independence Day &#8211; A Day for Expressing Joy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news.php3?id=102937\"><strong>Independence Day Leaves Some in Religious Camp Bewildered<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Commentary;<\/p>\n<p>This author agrees that Eretz Yisrael, Mein ha Shemayim;  that the Jewish State also  (There is a quote somewhere that said basically that had a Jewish state been left to Chareidi Rabbonim, it would not have come into existence, Pikuach Nefesh &#8212; too dangerous). <\/p>\n<p>But <em>whichever regime is in power in recent years, <\/em>, i.e. Barak, or Sharon or now Olmert. it <em>has hijacked the Bracha and used it toward it&#8217;s own self- glorification seemingly proclaiming that it was them, Hashem out of the picture, who brought Medinat Yisrael into existence<\/em> such that this author can&#8217;t and, presumably many more of us, cannot be seen as using this day as a sign of re-allegiance with an evil regime who equates itself with Divine formation of Medinat Yisrael.   For that reason, this author cannot recite Hallel; cannot connect, nor can permit myself to be perceived as connecting the prevailing regime&#8217;s evil with the Kindness of Hashem.    MB<\/p>\n<p>More suitable expressions of HaKaras HaTov to HaKodosh Borchu are events such as that reported in the article below;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news.php3?id=102938\"><strong>Atzmona Evacuees to Inaugurate New Synagogue on Independence Day<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beit El&#8217;s Rabbi: Independence Day &#8211; A Day for Expressing Joy Independence Day Leaves Some in Religious Camp Bewildered Commentary; This author agrees that Eretz Yisrael, Mein ha Shemayim; that the Jewish State also (There is a quote somewhere that said basically that had a Jewish state been left to Chareidi Rabbonim, it would not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}