Have none of these Sephardi Rabbis contemplaed the theological implications of the Book of Job on our People? This is the second time this iugly idea has come about. Theory: in progressing the arguement that one element of Am Yisrael, through their actions, are responsible for HaShem’s wrath on us as a whole, and in accepting that the Beis haMikdash fell due to this (via Sinas Chinam), in saying such things now they risk it happening again…
Have they no Yirat Malkut? Let alone shame? Maybe my outlook is flawed, but I just wanna say to Mordechai Eliyahu, “Don’t be hatin’.”
tug of the tzitzits to JTA:
‘Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, a former Sephardi chief rabbi, told a fervently Orthodox radio station last week that Jews as a whole were not to blame for the Holocaust, “but the Reform movement started in Germany, those who changed the religion began in Germany. And because it is written that God was angered, even He did not differentiate among the righteous, and it was done.”‘
Smicha doesn’t mean that you have any common sense.
To me, baseless hatred of other Jews marks our people’s sufferings. All you need is love, sayeth the Beatles!
its just odd to me that these chief israeli sephardic rabbis keep repeating the same thing. what next, the Blood Libel?
Nothing that a real college education couldn’t improve