Rabbi Miller
says that we should take the hostility of the Arabs as a message that G-d is
trying to tell us something:
The question is what should we do about the
message of the hostility of the Arabs. Now, it doesn’t mean that we should
therefore walk across the borders with outstretched arms and embrace the Arabs
because most likely they’ll greet you with gunfire. But there is a message that
we have things to do inside. We have a lot of things to do inside, and maybe
for instance we have to start pressing for the observance of Shabbos in the
land of Israel. (Perhaps), the Torah says mechaleleha mos yumos, those
who profane the Shabbos will be put to death. The Torah says that. And the
Gemara says af al pi she’batlu Sandedrin, although we don’t have a Sanhedrin
to execute sinners today (...) the din still goes on, the judgment is still
carried out. So maybe when men fall at the borders or when a hand grenade is
thrown into a bus or other ways people are killed maybe we should think, we
should suspect, it’s a reasonable suspicion, maybe Ha-Kadosh Baruch Hu
is carrying out what He said He would do. If buses travel on Shabbos and
if the ministry of work gives out permits to so many factories, so many
factories are open today in Eretz Yisrael on Shabbos, a lot of
factories, with permission of the government. In the land of Israel, you should
profane the Shabbos?[1]
Bringing more
trouble are those who seek to “wipe out any form, any vestige of a she’eirus
of Ya’hadus in Eretz Yisrael.”[2]
Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch cautions similarly: “The authorities here in Eretz
Yisrael are blind to the fact that they themselves are exposing the Jewish
nation to danger by enacting decrees against the Torah.”[3]
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