Rabbi Mendel Kaplan is the founder and spiritual leader of Chabad @ Flamingo in Thornhill, Ontario, he also serves as a Chaplain of the York Regional Police Service
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May 11, 2011
To DR. Schertzman, MD, BetarIlit, Israel
You know Dr.Schetrzman I would have received your message a lot better if you would have omitted your insult to me in public, by indulging in calling me ignorant, ignoring where a person is coming from. Actually I did live in Israel twice. Once as a teen and once married with a child. As a teen, I lived through the war of Yom Kippur, where members of my close family were wounded and others died, with many others Kedoshim, because an Israeli government that knowing of the impending attack, prefered to spill jewish blood, instead of offend american and european politicians and the "Holy"UN. Just like today, the israeli government prefers to murder religious jews in Itamar instead of claiming sovereignty over the Jewish God given Land, reacquired through more Jewish blood during the 67, 73 and endless conflicts, like the destitute religious Jews of Gush Katif As an MD in Hadassah in 1998 making, 40 shekel/hour, it was hard to eat & to take care of ill parents back in usa.
Rivka NYC, NY
May 11, 2011
To Rivka
Jews are governed by halacha. There is a mitzvah to live in eretz yisrael. This is not dependent on current politics or miracles like yam suf. Your question shows unfortunately a great level of ignorance on the whole topic. For your information the Jewish community of Israel today is the largest Jewish community. Soon most Jews will be in Israel. About 80% are classified as either traditional to very religious. Are you waiting for a personal invitation from GD or an economic collapse in America?
Tuvia Schertzman,MD Betar Ilit, Israel
May 6, 2011
How to know when to go to Israel, safely?
Are there now or are there going to be, please G_d soon, any Signs, "Otiot" that we Jews can see/feel, or, you, Rabbis, can truly know of as imponderables of the time to leave "Galut" to go Home to Israel, all of us, as Yetsiat Mizraim was? Could it be that the time has already come, but because of the fear to live in a secular/arab worshiping governed Jewish state, we fear to go, especially when we see how useless the Israeli police and army, are in defending the Jewish People? especially the Jews that Keep Torah and live in or near the most Holy Jewish sites?
Actually I did live in Israel twice.
Once as a teen and once married with a child.
As a teen, I lived through the war of Yom Kippur, where members of my close family were wounded and others died, with many others Kedoshim, because an Israeli government that knowing of the impending attack, prefered to spill jewish blood, instead of offend american and european politicians and the "Holy"UN.
Just like today, the israeli government prefers to murder religious jews in Itamar instead of claiming sovereignty over the Jewish God given Land, reacquired through more Jewish blood during the 67, 73 and endless conflicts, like the destitute religious Jews of Gush Katif
As an MD in Hadassah in 1998 making, 40 shekel/hour, it was hard to eat & to take care of ill parents back in usa.
NYC, NY
Betar Ilit, Israel
Could it be that the time has already come,
but because of the fear to live in a secular/arab worshiping governed Jewish state, we fear to go, especially when we see how useless the Israeli police and army, are in defending the Jewish People?
especially the Jews that Keep Torah and live in or near the most Holy Jewish sites?
NYC, NY