[Avodah] Sobering Thoughts as Israel's Independence Day Approaches

[Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org]

possibilities---

1. the whole enterprise is  evil,  and the sitra achra will go to all 
lengths to fool the frum jews who  'fell for it'.  ie  in this scenario 
the NK-satmar position is the correct one ,   the DL  jews  fell in , the 
zionists are the erev rav/tools of the satan ; and all the non-frum jews 
don't come into the cheshbon

2. be'itta achishena. at a time when 90 % of jews fell away  from the 
torah derech,   the  frum jews  had not enough merit  to bring mashiach. 
but churban always is followed  by respite. here, the task was to build  a 
 sheerit lapleita. some saw this a holy task , others parve.   in any case 
,  it  was  sufficient  cause  to cause  irreversible theological and 
practical pirud between supposedly torah jews --allowing all sides to hate 
 their brethren leshem shamayim.
this  removes all sides' zchyos ,and it is truly chessed that it is 
allowed to stand

3. using the bilaam-iyov-yitro  analogy, it would seem that one extreme or 
the other should be the correct answer [ ie  either a holy enterprise or 
the work of the devil].  those  taking  the iyovian approach  of 
shev-val-tedaber  clearly  are asking for  trouble...

i am sure  there are a million other choices, though  the RBSO  has yet  a 
different  playbook....


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