Of Two Related Rabbinic Campaigns

  • One, we are told to vote.
  • Two, we are told to give tzedakah to the poor.

And yet, the practical result of socialist policies is to create the poor, crushed people we must then support…

Rabbis have brazenly supported the rich eating the poor since at least the Cantonist Decrees (the Malbim, Rabbi Yisrael Salanter and the like are the exceptions to prove the rule). See more here.