Judge Caprio, may he rest in peace

 

Rabbi Avigdor Miller on false Judaism, from Sing You Righteous

 44. A. What kind of Judaism are you urging?

G. There is but one kind. Reform and Conservative “Judaism” are not Judaism, and Zionism is the opposite of the Torah. In some ways, these are even further than Christianity from the truth.

45. A. How is that possible?

G. The Reformers are actually atheists. Not only do they disbelieve in a Torah given by G-d, but even G-d is to them merely a word which they use 1) to mimic the gentiles and 2) to appease their conscience. The “Conservatives” are also muddle-headed men who are Reformers, or opportunists who swim with the tide. Many are actually atheists, and thus are inferior to the idolaters and followers of the spurious religions. The Zionists claim no form of religion.

46 A. Does Zionism, or the State of Israel, present an ideology which could preserve Jewish identity?

G. Even if it did, this would be a purely artificial ideology and could not appeal to a rational and truth-seeking mind. What right do atheists have to claim a land, unless by force of arms? It is not an ideology but an organization, and it cannot logically demand allegiance. There is no reason, according to such an artificial ideology why Jews should not lose themselves among the gentiles by assimilation and that is why a number of their leaders took gentile wives. It is (a) logical result of this lack of rational foundation that so many of the Israeli-born youth leave the country and are lost among the nations. The State of Israel presents the greatest peril to Jewish existence in history.

47. A. How is that possible?

G. Never before were Jews under the power of such a group of Jewish atheists. The Yevsekzia (Jewish communists) in Russia combated Judaism and urged assimilation, and they ruined millions of souls. But the leaders of the State of Israel speak Hebrew and proclaim themselves the true Jews, and they declare that no belief in G-d and in a Torah is necessary to be a genuine Jew.

48. A. Then gentiles who settle in the State of Israel and support it are also to be considered as Jews. 

G. This is precisely what the Government of Israel is doing. To facilitate matters, they have arranged (by means of the “religious” Zionists) for easy conversion-procedures whereby non-Jews are certified as genuine Jews. Thus the world becomes flooded not only with Jewish atheists who speak Hebrew and are supremely confident in the genuine Jewishness, but also with an unlimited number of true gentiles who speak Hebrew and are certified as Jews by the Israeli government. What Haman and Titus could not do, the Israelis are attempting: the first could only attempt to destroy the physical existence of Israel, but the State of Israel is attempting to counterfeit the term Jew and to erase all boundaries between Jew and non-Jew. No true seeker is deceived by these men; it is only the self-seekers or those who seek to escape from the Torah who have any interest in Zionism or secular Hebraism. The assimilated Jew seeks a sedative for his conscience, and he therefore welcomes Zionism and Israel as an easy and meaningless substitute for true Judaism. 

Actually, the State of Israel solves nothing. All "problems" remain the same, and new ones are created. For example: 1) The Arabian lands have been rendered uninhabitable for Jews; 2) constant wars with neighbors must be waged, incurring huge military expenditures and loss of many lives, in addition to constant peril; 3) it has exacerbated Jew-hatred in the nations, due to Arab influence and also to embroilment with the foreign policy of the nations; 4) and the proponents of the State of Israel attempt to kindle a fire under the Jews in all lands in order to make their position untenable so that they emigrate to augment the population of the new State. (For example, Ben Gurion's statement in the N.Y. Times 4/22/1963. "Jews are in truth a separate element in the midst of the peoples among whom they live an element that cannot be completely absorbed by any nation. For this reason no nation can calmly tolerate it in its midst").

Rabbi Avigdor Miller,  Sing You Righteous, #44-48

inciting the public against the chareidim

 

הרב דב לנדאו הזכיר כמה נורא זה שאנשים עם כיפות סרוגות מסיתים את הציבור נגד החרדים בקריאתם לגייס בחורים ואברכים לישיבה. הרב שטרנבוך השיב שככל שנדבר איתם פחות, כך זה בריא יותר. בנו של הרב שטרנבוך נזכר שכאשר הרב שטרנבוך היה ילד בלונדון, בנים יהודים למדו או בבית ספר לא יהודי או בבית ספר יהודי שנוהל על ידי המזרחי. הרב אלחנן וסרמן פסק שבנים יהודים צריכים להעדיף ללמוד בבית ספר לא יהודי. (הרב לנדאו התפעל מפסיקה זו).

Rav Dov Landau mentioned how terrible it was that people with knitted yarmulkas were inciting the public against the chareidim with their call to recruit yeshiva bochurim and avrechim.

Rav Sternbuch responded that the less we talk to them, the healthier it is. Rav Sternbuch’s son recalled that when Rav Sternbuch was a boy in London, Jewish boys attended either a non-Jewish school or a Jewish school run by the Mizrachi (“religious Zionists”). Rav Elchonon Wasserman ruled that Jewish boys should rather attend the non-Jewish school. (Rav Landau marveled at this ruling).

when the majority oppresses the minority

 A victorious majority will be the first to become unfaithful to its own cause. It has triumphed; it is, after all the majority. Its cause is now safe and secure. Its struggle is a matter of the past, and therefore can be ignored. Let minds and spirits now turn to new aspirations, new perceptions. The ancient truth for which that majority struggles so hard and whose victory had cost them so dearly now stands safe beneath the palladium of this very majority…And so the triumphant majority considers it sufficient to preserve, or if possible to increase, the numbers of its adherents. But the spiritual content of the triumphant truth is no longer cultivated; it is slowly forgotten. It will still survive as a resounding word as a name inscribed upon the banner of the majority; it will pass as a shallow watchword from generation to generation. But its core is empty, or in may instances is filled with ideas of a different character. (page 239)

However, precisely such complete dedication to its cause may easily lead the minority into intellectual one-sidedness. This may well stunt to a degree the development of the minority’s unique intellectual life. Furthermore, it may make that minority incapable of representing its cause effectively to the outside world. Thus, such one-sidedeness in a minority may do grave damage to the very cause that the minority seeks to preserve and to promote. The richer the minority’s cause, the more will the minority treasure it. But then it may easily come to regard all other knowledge in “outside” domains as unnecessary, or even as utterly worthless. It may reject all intellectual activity in any field outside its own as an offense against its own cause, as an inroad upon the devotion properly due to that cause and and infringement on its prerogatives.

Such a one-sided attitude does not stop at mere disregard for other intellectual endeavors. Once this attitude has taken hold in the Jewish minority, that minority will be unable to form a proper judgment and a true image of those intellectual pursuits which are not cultivated in its own ranks but pursued mainly by its opponents. Then, as a result of simple ignorance, the minority will begin to fear that which at first it merely neglected out of disdain. Consequently, the minority will begin to suspect the existence of an intrinsic close relationship between these “outside” intellectual pursuits and those principles to which the Jewish minority stands in opposition. (page 247)

R Hirsch Collected Writings Vol II

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