You Know the Vort of ‘Pnei Hador’? Kissinger Was the Dog!
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You don’t know the vort? Here:
Among the phenomena that will take place just before the coming of the Messiah, the Talmud (Sanhedrin 97a and Sotah 49b) lists pnei hador kipnei hakelev, literally: “the face of the generation will be like the face of the dog” — very cryptic. Some translate pnei hador as “the leaders of the generation,” which renders the phrase as: “the leaders of the generation will be like the face of a dog” — still quite puzzling. Among the most incisive readings is that of the legendary Rav Elchonon Wasserman citing Rav Yisrael Salanter: A dog may run ahead of its master, but when there is a fork in the road it waits to see which way the master prefers, and then runs ahead again — until the next fork in the road. Physically, the dog is in front, but he is not leading. The master, though he is behind, is actually leading.
So it is with today’s political leaders. They wait for the latest poll results before making policy pronouncements. They are not leaders but followers… of the polls. (They should be called poll-iticians, not politicians.)