Satmar Rebbe attacks Israeli government, "apikorsim"

As on every year, Satmar chassidim eagerly await the traditional drosha of the Satmar Rebbe during Chol Hamoed, in the large Beis Midrash of the Hasidus in Williamsburg.

After the usual drosha - he speaks on current issues. This year, the speech addressed what is happening in Israel.

At the beginning of his words he reinforced the matter of Torah study, and said: "Our generation has no advice to escape the yetzer hora, only through the study of Torah, and there is no advice on education of children if not particularly through regular Torah study. A child growing up in a home where he found that his father comes home after a tiring day's work, and leaves him in favor of his regular learning, is different than a boy who sees his father prepared to cancel his regular limud for trivial things."

Finally, he addressed the most pressing issue these days, the recruiting of yeshiva students, and strongly criticized the Israeli government:

"These days they formed a government in Israel that includes only apikorsim and ruffians and contains no haredi Jew at all, which caused new decrees.

"First, is the core curriculum about which my uncle the Rebbe Divrei Yoel zt"l said 40 years ago, that no one delude himself that the Zionists give free money, for one day they will be required to study in Talmud Torah schools and educational institutions the content they see fit, then it will be very difficult to disconnect from them because they adapted to the pleasures of budgets. "

Here the Rebbe went on to explain to the public abroad the severity of recruiting of yeshiva students: "This is an economic decree on individuals who enjoy state funds, such as the National Insurance ','Income Security', and discounts on municipal fees, which will be a bigger test that every Jew himself will be forced to pass, even if the institutions will disconnect from government funds.

Feeding treifos
"Therefore," the Rebbe stressed, "as in 5714 when the decree of recruiting girls was a threat, my uncle the Divrei Yoel zt"l initiated a large demonstration, in cooperation with the wide haredi spectrum, I too, after leading rabbis from Eretz Yisroel shlita asked me, am planning to work in the coming days towards a huge rally of tens of thousands of Jews against the Zionist state, and its intention to recruit the yeshiva students, which will cause a Kidush Hashem. I'm sure my uncle the Rebbe zt"l will be pleased in Olam Ha'emes, from the Kidush Hashem which will be caused, with G-d's help, "concluded the Rebbe.

The Rebbe also dealt with the kashrus of eating and said: "Many probably heard the shocking story, that in Los Angeles they found a shop selling non-kosher meat with a kosher stamp. But we have to do our own inspections here in these parts, for it's been three years now that they find in chicken testing, problems of treifos in 'tsomes hagidin' (junction of tendons). "

The Rebbe also hinted about those, who despite these findings, continue to ignore them as if they did not exist: "Some people because of lust for victory are willing to continue to eat treif poultry, and the old saying says that 'when a Belzer chossid in Galicia polished his shoes, a signal of enlightenment and progress, a Berlin Jew deteriorated to the point of apostasy (equivalent to the famous saying, that all of Israel are one piece and when the tzaddik descends from his level, the common people also fall from theirs, while the Jew on the lowest level might also abandon his faith). "

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