Feiglin on the Real Reason to Throw out Bibi

Not Because of Corruption: By Moshe Feiglin

When a famous rabbi joins the agenda dictated by Netanyahu nemesis Eldad Yaniv, he doesn’t turn himself into a soldier in the service of morality. Just the opposite. He and those who follow him turn themselves into soldiers in the service of the disgusting manipulations of the most filthy, despicable creatures in our midst.

The same rabbi supported executing the orders to drive the residents of Gush Katif from their homes. In other words, he indirectly enabled the moral abomination that no corruption can equal. In my eyes, this rabbi’s moral compass is completely off course.

Rightist Yoaz Hendel, who is heading an anti-corruption demonstration scheduled for Saturday night, is right when he talks about the danger of corruption, but he is mixing the important with the unimportant. Corruption and dishonesty have always been here. They are always serious problems, they must always be fought – and I did so without fear when I was an MK.

It is good that the corruption in Netanyahu’s back yard is being investigated and it is good that the public doesn’t like it. However, the level of corruption is currently much lower than it was in the days of Sharon, Barak and Peres. I do not remember demonstrations against corruption then, featuring rabbis, journalist and MKs.

In Israel, corruption is a geographical matter. When it is in the Right’s territory, it is a national agenda. When it is in the Left’s… the offenders are pampered.

Netanyahu’s personal conduct is objectionable. He has to go home, but not because of corruption. He has to go home because the strategy of “Let’s just make it to twelve o’clock tonight and we’ll see what happens tomorrow” – or in other words, the total lack of any strategy other than personal survival, has turned the man into a strategic catastrophe for the State of Israel.

The man who explained years ago that his main objective was to neutralize the Iranian nuclear threat, passed the responsibility for that to Obama – and destroyed the Iranian nuclear reactor with his speeches. Netanyahu is responsible for the fact that not only will Iran have nuclear capabilities, but they will be sitting on our border, a short distance from Tel Aviv.

Netanyahu is the man who removed the metal detectors so that the Arabs would return to the Temple Mount. He is the man who prevented the move of the US embassy to Jerusalem (no – it did not move) and VP Pence’s speech at the Western Wall (did you really think that Pence didn’t come because of Rabbi Rabinovitz?). He is the man who neutralized any effective bills limiting the power of the High Court. He is a man with no vision – and he must go home.

 Because when a nation has no vision, it becomes corrupt. The time has come for leadership with vision. If the demonstrations against Netanyahu will ultimately depose him, I will not be sorry. But I cannot lie to myself and participate in them.

From Jewish Israel, here.

‘But Who Created God?!’

Have you ever (been) asked this question?
Hyehudi to the rescue…
The first Hakdamah (introduction) is God cannot be proved.
… The metaphysical naturalist cannot defeat hard solipsism, and cannot induct logical induction itself… Ergo, anything he says and/or thinks (including “Good morning”) is either viciously circular or violates the law of non-contradiction.
Finally, I would say this:
‘If God created the world, who created God?’ is an expression of reverent amazement masquerading as a logical paradox. Since the simple meaning of the word “God” indicates “uncreated”, it is as though one said “But love is too wonderful to be real!”, or “How could anything be so beautiful!”
God with a beginning is an oxymoron and violates the law of non-contradiction. So the supposed “question” is but a special case of the infinite regress, which rejects all claims to human knowledge (again, by the way, bumping against the law of non-contradiction). With nothing to stand on, one can always ask “why?” and “wherefore?”
Good luck with that…
[This article refers to the standalone question “But who created God?” If you heard the question in the course of playing with “Everything that has a beginning has a sufficient cause”, etc. etc., it’s your own mess; don’t ask me to clean it up. Again, God’s existence cannot be proved (but read our anti-atheist Hebrew ebook to win such arguments, anyway).]

Why Does Nobody Want to Marry Gerrer Chassidim?

Mishna Sotah 3:4:

רבי יהושע אומר, רוצה אשה בקב ותפלות מתשעה קבין ופרישות. הוא היה אומר, חסיד שוטה, ורשע ערום, ואשה פרושה, ומכות פרושין, הרי אלו מכלי עולם.

Rabbi Bartenura idem:

רוצה אשה בקב, ליזון מזונות מועטים, ויהא תשמיש מצוי לה. מתשעה קבין ופרישות, לפרוש מן התשמיש, כו’.