Zionists Are Evil, Amalek, Must Be Fought, Satmar Rebbe Says
"[T]here is no stricter prohibition in the Torah than [than the one
forbidding] participating in the elections. The ideas of Zionism include
all the heresy and apostasy.…The Zionists came from the seed of Amalek. There has never been such a sect that caused so much damage to the Jewish people…The Zionists are real Amaleks, and therefore every Jew must engage in an all-out war against them.”
Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum the Williamsburg Satmar Rebbe
The Williamsburg Satmar Rebbe Zalman Leib Teitelbaum spoke to more than 10,000 haredim in Jerusalem Sunday night. He ordered then not to vote in today's elections and vehemently attacked the State of Israel and Zionism.
Here are some excerpts as translated by Ynet:
"[T]here is no stricter prohibition in the Torah than [than the one forbidding] participating in the elections. The ideas of Zionism include all the heresy and apostasy. Refuting the decree of the Diaspora, Providence and the coming of the Messiah…The government is apostasy and heresy, and a revolt against God's divinity," he added, "and those who help enter the government are part of it, accessories. This must not be done under any circumstances."…
"One mustn't ask for money from the State," he ruled. "Yeshiva students should go to jail rather than agree to compromises. The real fighters are those who give up on the state budgets and are willing to live in poverty."
"How can a Jew who stood on Mount Sinai violate the oath he committed to there? What the haredi representatives are doing at the Knesset is a great defamation of God. A great destruction. There is no greater defamation of God… It leads to the hatred of Jews in the entire world."
The rebbe also slammed the government seeking to draft yeshiva students, saying that "the draft decree aims to make us forget all the other troubles Zionism has inflicted on us. We must fight it uncompromisingly so that such ideas won't even cross their minds."
He referred to the State of Israel and its Zionist residents as "the generation's Amalek" [the biblical arch enemy of the Jewish people and the rabbinic paradigm for all future enemies of the Jewish people] and likened haredi Knesset members to "Pharaoh's parliament."
"The Zionists came from the seed of Amalek. There has never been such a sect that caused so much damage to the Jewish people… Seclusion saved Jerusalem from being the remote city, like all other cities swept away by the impure state…
"We did not see in the entire Torah a greater offense than voting in the elections, which cancels the entire Torah," he added. "I am certain that all the rabbis who permitted (voting for Knesset) in the past, would admit today that they made a fatal mistake."We see the activity of the haredi representatives, which is against the Torah. The Israeli parliament is like Pharaoh's parliament. Whoever votes in the elections sends representatives to this Amalek parliament…This is a riffraff government. The Zionists are real Amaleks, and therefore every Jew must engage in an all-out war against them.”…
The evil lurks in him,as the saying goes it takes one to know one,if he sees evil in others then he himself is evil,they have nothing in life just to always finding new enemies since they are jobless and have all the time on their all those who dont work have a meaningless life boredem brings on insanity and hate.
Posted by: jancsibacsi | January 22, 2013 at 09:26 AM
The Zionists came from the seed of Amalek. There has never been such a sect that caused so much damage to the Jewish people…
To me it looks like he is describing himself and his cult he should know.
Posted by: jancsibacsi | January 22, 2013 at 09:30 AM
Is this amalek include kastner, the tziyoni that saved the life of yoel tietelbuam? While yoel tietelbaum sat on the train to be saved, he told his chasidim to stay in hungry rather then go to Israel.
Posted by: Apple Juice | January 22, 2013 at 09:31 AM
"[T]here is no stricter prohibition in the Torah than [than the one forbidding] participating in the elections. The ideas of Zionism include all the heresy and apostasy.…
And all this time I thought eating lettuce with bugs was the worst.
Posted by: Office of the Chief Rabbi | January 22, 2013 at 09:38 AM
"How can a Jew who stood on Mount Sinai violate the oath he committed to there?"
I guarantee you that this ignorant Rumanian peasant's ancestors were busy fucking goats and sacrificing their ugly wives to the Rumanaian "sun god" while the Children Of Israel were at Sinai receiving the Torah.
Posted by: R. Wisler | January 22, 2013 at 09:52 AM
hey zalman you pig, dont you have any child rapists you need to support and defend?
Posted by: ah-pee-chorus | January 22, 2013 at 10:22 AM
Wow! This Rebbe has so much emunah, I wish I was like him. If only HaKadosh Baruch Hu would bestow this on more Yidden.
Posted by: YTHM | January 22, 2013 at 10:31 AM
> "[T]here is no stricter prohibition in the Torah than [than the one forbidding] participating in the elections.
No, it's not being an asshole, something this guy violates every time he opens his mouth.
(BTW Shmarya, have you had your thyroid checked lately?)
Posted by: Garnel Ironheart | January 22, 2013 at 10:35 AM
YTHM. Teitelbaum's rant is just an example of cognitive dissonance relating to the failure of Ultraorthodoxy to prevent the Holocaust and the fear that refusing to assimilate may have helped bring it about. You should not wish for HKBH to bestow mental problems of Yidden.
Posted by: Barry | January 22, 2013 at 11:01 AM
every Jew must engage in an all-out war against them
Is this not incitement to violence? At what point do we arrest guys like this or bar them from entering the country?
If we truly care about democracy and freedom of speech, we have to know how to put responsible limits on it. Otherwise, guys like Teitlbaum (like militant Muslim clerics), who are anti-freedom, know our weakness and are only too happy to exploit it.
Posted by: Atheodox Jew | January 22, 2013 at 11:04 AM
The worst avaira in the Torah is following the avodah zara called SATMAR. Its worse then what shabtai tzvi did.
Posted by: x yoli from willi | January 22, 2013 at 11:09 AM
WEBBS gets 103 years.
Shmarya. Get up from that girl and do some work.
Posted by: webbs | January 22, 2013 at 11:14 AM
To Efraim: Crowds don't mean anything.It doesn't mean they're following a virtuous leader. Iran's late Ayatollah Khomeini had tens millions of followers who obeyed every word of his. This Satanic leader had up to a million Iranians,even children, die in the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s. Another wicked leader, the Satmar Rebbe - who attacks Weberman's innocent victims - is also able to fool his followers.
Posted by: Jacob Mendlovic | January 22, 2013 at 11:24 AM
Weberman just got 103 years! Maybe Bennett should fly in to Williamsburg and offer $1000 to every chossid who swears to keep his shwantz in his pants!
Posted by: Mr. Nowhere | January 22, 2013 at 11:29 AM
Everybody comedown I heard the entire speech .He said that the CHOFATZ CHIEAM said that the Zionim are the amulakim of this generation.
Posted by: MARK | January 22, 2013 at 11:29 AM
I wonder if Satmar secretly gets money from Iran.
Scotty may be overweight, but at least he doesn't wear a big dead animal on his head like a Cossack.
Posted by: Yochanan Lavie | January 22, 2013 at 11:32 AM
To Efraim: Crowds don't mean anything.It doesn't mean they're following a virtuous leader. Iran's late Ayatollah Khomeini had tens of millions of followers who obeyed every word of his. This Satanic leader had up to a million Iranians,even children, die in the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s. Another wicked leader,the Satmar Rebbe - who attacks Weberman's innocent victims - is also able to fool his followers.
Posted by: Jacob Mendlovic | January 22, 2013 at 11:33 AM
200,000 girls turned up in Mexico City to see Justin Bieber.
Apparently 500,000 Israelis attended a 1974 concert by the Kaveret although I suspect that was exaggerated.
Posted by: Barry | January 22, 2013 at 11:50 AM
The Nuremberg Rally was also a smash hit.
Posted by: Yochanan Lavie | January 22, 2013 at 11:53 AM
He is telling his followers to kill Israelis and that they must be wiped out down to the last child. Is there any reason he should walk free?
Posted by: A. Nuran | January 22, 2013 at 12:13 PM
rome stood by while the jews fought amongst themselves while jerusalem was destroyed.[josephus?] nothing seems to change with these jewish jew haters'What does Hashem want from me says a satmar. that's easy to decide . kill all zionists.
Posted by: contra apion | January 22, 2013 at 12:15 PM
Besides the incitement to violence that he makes, i think it is a good idea for the hairy-dim not to vote.
That way they will have little or no political clout.
And those talking about Shmarya in derogatory terms should really look in the mirror at their ugly selves.
Posted by: BeenThereDoneThat | January 22, 2013 at 01:11 PM
200,000 girls turned up in Mexico City to see Justin Bieber.
Apparently 500,000 Israelis attended a 1974 concert by the Kaveret although I suspect that was exaggerated.
Posted by: Barry | January 22, 2013 at 11:50 AM
ac/dc can get 10,000 in about 10 minutes they must be more holy that satmar rebbie
Posted by: seymour | January 22, 2013 at 01:35 PM
if he didn't wear spectacles, i would have thought it's a picture of tamerlan or attils the hun. khazar? gee, i don't know. maybe a reject from the hordes of gengis khan!
Posted by: Yosef ben Matitya | January 22, 2013 at 02:14 PM
I guarantee you that this ignorant Rumanian peasant's ancestors were busy fucking goats and sacrificing their ugly wives to the Rumanaian "sun god" while the Children Of Israel were at Sinai receiving the Torah.
Posted by: R. Wisler
Hahaha,excellently said!I bet you are Hungarian or have Hungarian ancestry.Only Hungarians speak about Rumenians like this!
Posted by: Abu Jihad Schneerson | January 22, 2013 at 06:39 PM
The Satmar are such an abomination to world Jewry that I regret that they draw breath in this world.
Posted by: elliot j. stamler | January 22, 2013 at 06:48 PM
The Jewish layperson, the secular who works for a living, the real simple Jew who only wants to stay out of trouble must he made to understand that the Satmar Hasidic cult is the enemy within. That the only discernible difference between a Satmar and an Arab jihadist is the uniform they wear. The Jewish people turned a blind eye to the Satmar menace and allowed the cancer to grow, now look what's become of this pernicious cult of satanic sorcerers.
More important than this is understanding how these black hatted sons of bitches came to wield this power to begin with. It must be understood that Satmar are emissaries of Alamek, and use symbol-switching orwellianiam and iron-fisted tyranny to bring about its satanic design.
All Jews must be made to understand that the Satmar has sided with our enemies, because their leaders cut themselves a deal. This is what Hasidic Judaism and the teachings of the Besht has brought us to.
Get comfortable with the idea of fighting black-hats, because they are the enemies of Hashem, of Israel, of America, of western civilization, of common sense, of liberty, of the rule of law.
They are filth that must be disposed of, nothing more.
Posted by: Korbendallas72 | January 22, 2013 at 09:56 PM
Thanks, Evan.
Posted by: Shmarya Rosenberg | January 22, 2013 at 10:57 PM
"[T]here is no stricter prohibition in the Torah than [than the one forbidding] participating in the elections."
Say what? What is that even *based* on?
Seriously, aside from any opinion on the matter -- what is the rationale for claiming halacha even has anything to say about elections?
Posted by: Missing the Gaon ztz'l | January 23, 2013 at 05:31 AM
Reminds me of Barry Shein.
Posted by: Yet Another Anonymous Coward | January 24, 2013 at 09:55 AM
Thanks to Mr. Teitelbaum's interference with the Israeli election, as well as defying so many authentic Rabbis, has influenced me to become an even more ardent & proud & active Zionist.
I shall meticulously observe both Yom ha'Atzmaut & Yom Yerusholayim, to spite Mr. Teitelbaum.
Furthermore, to spite Mr. Teitelbaum, in Adar I am taking an unexpected trip to Israel, to boost the Israeli economy, and patronize El Al.
But I must credit these Satmars for 1 thing which I also do as they:- We both are not members of Agudah Isreal of America, both of us due to irreconcilable differences with the views & policies of Agudas Yisroel.
Posted by: Realistic | January 24, 2013 at 09:02 PM
ZALMAN THE IMPIOUS.a minion from hades
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