Mere Rhetoric is Mean to Religious Jews
A Chabad Rabbi is urging religious Jews to give up on Israel:
Shalom Dov Wolpe, a Chabad rabbi, argues in a new book that the disengagement is proof that religious Zionists should abandon their faith in the state of Israel as a vehicle for ultimate spiritual redemption. In Between Light and Dark, Wolpe states, in an I-told-you-so way, that the disengagement proved Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the last Chabad-Lubavitch rebbe, was right about rejecting Zionism as a way of hastening the messianic era.
Yeah - things could get really bad. If the relationship between ultra-Orthodox Jews and the State of Israel keeps declining, some ultra-Orthodox Jews might evenstop serving in the army... start disproportionately utilizing social entitlements... nevermind.
That was inappropriate. There are plenty of extremely patriotic religious Zionists. Just not this guy.
Shalom Dov Wolpe, a Chabad rabbi, argues in a new book that the disengagement is proof that religious Zionists should abandon their faith in the state of Israel as a vehicle for ultimate spiritual redemption. In Between Light and Dark, Wolpe states, in an I-told-you-so way, that the disengagement proved Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the last Chabad-Lubavitch rebbe, was right about rejecting Zionism as a way of hastening the messianic era.
Yeah - things could get really bad. If the relationship between ultra-Orthodox Jews and the State of Israel keeps declining, some ultra-Orthodox Jews might even
That was inappropriate. There are plenty of extremely patriotic religious Zionists. Just not this guy.
