Non-hasidic Ashkenazi haredi supreme leader Rabbi Aaron Yehuda Leib Steinman has decided that purported increased hatred of haredim by non-haredi Jews and especially the Government of Israel is caused by a decree from God, and no amount of lobbying the government or advocacy by haredim will change it
Rabbi Aaron Yehuda Leib Steinman
Haredi Leader Who Said All Things Being Equal, Haredim Really Should Murder Government Leaders Now Say Increased “Hatred” Against Haredim By The Government Is a Decree From God That Haredim Can’t Fix – So Don't Bother Trying
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessaih.com
Non-hasidic Ashkenazi haredi supreme leader Rabbi Aaron Yehuda Leib Steinman has decided that purported increased hatred of haredim by non-haredi Jews and especially the Government of Israel is caused by a decree from God, and no amount of lobbying the government or advocacy by haredim will change it, Yeshiva World reported.
(“The increase in hatred [against haredim] in our time is a gezera [decree] from Heaven. Lobbying and advocacy on our behalf is futile,” Steinman said.
)“עליית מפלס השנאה בתקופתנו, הוא גזירה משמים”, אמר, “פעולת השתדלנות וההסברה – מאמצי סרק”(
All haredim can do, Steinman said, is to increase our their prayer and Torah study. A fire is extinguished with water, Steinman said, and the ‘water’ need to extinguish this hatred is Torah and prayer.
In the past few months, Steinman has explicitly equated Israeli political leaders with Amalek, the biblical arch enemy of the Jewish people that Jews are commanded to wipe out in every generation.
And he was recently quoted by a leading haredi rabbi as having said that haredim should really murder Israeli government leaders. The only reason Steinman said he did not order this war to start, however, was that he was unsure of who would be the “general,” who would be qualified to lead it. But if he knew the answer to that question, Steinman said, the knives would come out and the government’s leaders would be murdered.
Steinman’s words closely parallel the words of other haredi leaders who have regularly equated the government or specific government leaders with Amalek, similar to the slurs and attacks against the government and the prime minister leading up to the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. But in that case the incitement to murder Rabin and other government leaders came primarily from Zionist Orthodox and Chabad rabbis like Avraham Hecht.
Today that incitement comes from haredi rabbinic and political leadership – including Steinman.
Steinman and other haredi leaders are upset that haredim are being asked to work rather than study Torah full time well into late middle age, and that they are being forced to serve in the IDF like all other Jewish Israelis.
Until now, many haredim have subsisted on government welfare, government subsidies, and charity while refusing to serve in the IDF or join the workforce.
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