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The Torah study is dedicatedin the memory of
Asher Ben Haim
The scouts sent by Moshe to tour the Promised Land returned with a terrifying report. The inhabitants of the land are formidably huge - giants - similar in proportion to the fruits of the land. "There is but one conclusion," they said. "One must be a giant in order to live in the Holy Land. There is no place for us, little grasshoppers, in a land that demands stature and nobility. Better that we live a quiet, secure life as grasshoppers in the wilderness than to aspire to great moral and spiritual heights."
Interestingly, Targum Onkelos translates chagavim, "grasshoppers," as kamtzin. The Talmud (Gittin 55a) attributes the destruction of the Second Temple to petty, little people who looked upon others with disdain and contempt. Such is the tragic story of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza.
To be a giant or to be a grasshopper? That is the question!
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Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
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