Feiglin Echoes Yeshayahu Leibowitz

We Work for G-d: A Torah Thought for Parashat Shemini by Moshe Feiglin

And  Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them.

            2 And there came forth fire from before the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

(From this week’s Torah portion, Shemini, Leviticus 10: 1-2)

And when they came to the threshing-floor of Nacon, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen stumbled.

            7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.

(From this week’s haftarah, Samuel B, 6:6-7)

It turns out that the holy service of G-d is a very exacting undertaking. Even if you are completely righteous and have only good intentions, it is best to strictly adhere to instructions – and then, after a lot of study and experience – to approach holiness.

The sons of Aaron brought a foreign offering, which G-d did not command them to do. But why did they have to die? Isn’t there more than one way to be a Jew?

And Uzzah? King David also couldn’t understand why he was killed. All that he wanted to do was to save the Ark of the Covenant from falling after the oxen stumbled. He paid for it with his life.

The holy service of G-d is not about personal whims – even if they stem from positive intentions. Today, a person who decides to serve G-d in a way that was not commanded (in other words, to serve himself) has nothing to worry about. No fire will descend from the heavens to burn him. G-d will not suddenly appear and smite him. But the fact that G-d is concealed does not mean that He does not exist. We must always remember that we work for Him, and He does not work for us.

Shabbat Shalom,

Moshe Feiglin

From Jewish Israel, here.

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From Shofar, here.

The Founders of the State of Israel and their Role in the Nazi Holocaust

The Holocaust Victims Accuse

“Serufay. Ha Kivshbnim Maashimim” (“The Holocaust Victims Accuse”), serves as an attempt to show, by means of testimonies, documents and reports, how Zionism and its high-level organizations brought a catastrophe upon our people during the era of the Nazi holocaust. “Serufay Ha Kivshonim Maashimim” is a collection of nine essays which were printed in “Digleinu” in the years 1961—64 under the heading, “Ani Maashim – Min HaMaitzar” (I Accuse – From the Depths”). The fruit of the pen of Reb. Moshe Shonfeld, it constitutes a continuation of the revelations of the gaon and tzaddik, Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandel, who devoted his life to saving his brothers, and endlessly alerted the Jewish world. But there was no one listening to him. Several paragraphs incorporated into the first nine essays and the last essay in its entirety are being published here for the first time.

The reading material in the pamphlet before us is very bitter, but it is essential that we look into it and absorb it in order to know the secular enemy and to understand his character and nature.

The essays printed in the booklet include just a small part of a serious accusation, which exposes the leaders of Zionism as war criminals, who contributed their share to the destruction of six million of our people. In the archives of the Goodman Family in London, Eisz Of Zurich Sternbuch of Montreux and Griffel and Weissmandel in the United States, are hidden documents and reports which are hair-raising and are waiting to be brought to light. Therefore, one must end the pamphlet with, “finished, but not ended”, in the hope that these matters will be completed. This is our obligation to millions of victims, as well as to clarify our consciousness and our world outlook.

The Kotzker Rebbe said, “who increases knowledge, increases pain; even though he will add pain, a person must increase his knowledge.”

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