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Do you know how many prophecies of doom about the end of the State of Israel I have heard during these 34 years?
There was the Gulf War. They told us that the State of Israel was going to be destroyed by Saddam Hussein's chemical missiles. Today’s youth do not even know who he is.
After Rabin's assassination, there was also talk of a civil war here, that the country was going to be torn apart.
There was, of course, the Oslo Accords and the expulsion from Gush Katif, which the theory was that everything should be given to the Arabs because the Palestinians were going to conquer the State of Israel any second.
There was an economic crisis, a social protest, people decided that if Berlin is the cheapest place to buy a Milky, then the country is collapsing.
There was the corona crisis not long ago. Remember? The media scared us, we were all going to die.
Even now, there is some rain in the State of Israel, and they call it "Hurricane Barbara", what a hurricane. Always drama.
Every morning we put on tefillin, "it shall be a sign for you on your hand and a remembrance between your eyes". "For with a powerful hand the Lord took you out of Egypt." We keep coming out of the tight places. We've been through Pharaoh, we will also get through this. There will not be a civil war here!
The bottom line is that despite all the prophecies of doom, the State of Israel is becoming a better and better place from year to year:
Economically, we have a wonderful standard of living. Ask your parents, ask your grandparents - how they used to live here before and how they live here now.
From a security point of view, the State of Israel is an empire today. Once they feared that Syria and Jordan would conquer Israel, today all the Arab countries and the Gulf nations are making peace with Israel. Why? Because of our beautiful eyes? No, because the State of Israel is a superpower.
Socially, too, an absolute majority of the Jewish people love each other. A civil war occurs when there are two equal sides. Here, there is a solid majority that wants tradition and nationalism and a small minority that thinks that if it pumps lies into the media then it will change reality; this is the same worldview that thinks that likes for an emotional post will turn black into white and white into black. I don't know exactly how this legal reform will pass, with amendments, without amendments - but I promise you that we will get through that as well. In a year's time, we will be sitting here, trying to remember what it was all about.
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(based on ruling 85031 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
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(based on ruling 85031 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
(based on ruling 85031 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
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Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 263 (address at the laying of the cornerstone of the Yeshiva Chakla’it in Kfar Haroeh)
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Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 263 (address at the cornerstone laying for the Yeshiva Chakla’it in Kfar Haroeh – 1938)
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 263 (address at the cornerstone laying for the Yeshiva Chakla’it in Kfar Haroeh – 1938)
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P'ninat Mishpat P'ninat Mishpat: Complaints about Contractor’s Work – part II
(based on ruling 83037.1 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
(based on ruling 83037.1 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
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Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 690
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