Missing pages
Yesterday I quoted Rav Teichtel’s derush on the parsha of orlah where he argues that for yishuv ha’aretz we need people who are learners who will work the land. The same idea appears in Aim HaBanim Smeicha.
I wanted to double-check what he said before posting it, so since I wasn’t home I looked up the derashos on hebrewbooks.org. Lo and behold, the copy of the derashos posted there is missing that entire section.
I hate to jump to the conclusion that it was censored out to as avoid the obvious Zionist message. Anyone who knows Rav Teichtel’s work knows he wrote Eim HaBanim Smeicha and was a Zionist. So why take out that section?
I am waiting for the day when someone publishes an edition of Divrei Yoel with all the anti-Zionist propaganda removed so that those of us who disagree with that hashkafa can just read the torah without wasting time on the other stuff.
From Divrei Chaim, here.