The Torah Trumps Trump
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| U. S. President-Elect Donald Trump |
Don’t get me wrong.
The theoretically better candidate won the recent U. S. Presidential election. What bothers me is the insistence of Jews on the Left, as well as on the Right, to place their focus on human powers, and even more so, non-Jewish powers, for their salvation, instead of making an intellectually honest examination of what HaShem really wants from us, and then making it happen, to the best of our ability.
Halakhah (Torah Law) is not the rocket science many “rabbis” want us to think it is. This is not about different understandings and interpretations, and me pushing the ones I happen to like on you. We simply need to examine the [uncensored] sources, listen to refutations of them, and check which point of view stands up to scrutiny.
If we do this, using uncensored sources, and freeing ourselves from hashqafah (in this case: preconceived notions) and distorted notions, based on our feelings, then I believe it will be revealed to you
The Torah touches every aspect of our lives, not just “shabbos and kashrus shailos.” It covers everything from running a truly Jewish government, running a Jewish military, fighting a war in a Jewish manner, and relating to non-Jews, both in times of war and peace, whether Israeli politicians and their State “religious” yes men, like it or not.
There is no separating any particular aspects of our lives from Torah. We cannot call one thing halakhah, and another thing “politics,” letting so-called “rabbis” off the hook from their responsibility to teach the truth.
So, what does this all have to do with the outcome of the recent U. S. Presidential elections?