Roger Froikin @rkefraim wrote, "FACT: THERE IS ONE JEWISH PEOPLE, ONE JEWISH NATION, UNITED BY ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE SYSTEM OF BELIEF AND THOUGHT. TORAH, WITHOUT WHICH THERE WOULD BE NO JEWISH PEOPLE, NO JEWISH RELIGION, NO JEWISH STATE. 1)
When former High Court Judge Aharon Barak stated in his recent TV Interview that he knew nothing of Torah and had no interest in knowing anything about it or Talmud,
When Lapid decided to eliminate Torah from the Curriculum of the schools, as Prime Minister, 2)
they ignore one important thing ---- Without that Torah that they choose to dispose of, there would be no Jewish people and no Jewish State that they claim they are defending. 3)
The simple fact is that had our ancestors felt the way Aharon Barak feels, had they thrown away Torah and Jewish history, had they believed it was irrelevant to them, 4)
there would have been no reason to have a Jewish state because there would have been no Jews to live in it and value it.
The World does not need another secular version of Croatia or Austria in the Middle East. 5)
Every Jew alive today is a miracle - in that he or she the inheritor of Torah - while in many times in history a large number of Jews, in some eras a majority, either were assimilated and lost to the Jewish People, or murdered.
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But the Jewish People need and deserve better than what Barak, Lapid and Gantz and Michaeli or assimilationist Jewish leaders in the Diaspora think the nation should be. Because an Israel without Torah will eventually have no reason to exist and will fade away. 7)
I am not saying the Jewish nation needs to conform to one interpretation of personal dress and behavior, or even how one chooses to believe. A good argument could be made that both Jewish extremes of observance are too infected with the consequences of Diaspora conditions & 8)
customs to be a model for a people. But I am saying that Torah, and study of Torah must be central, must be respected, and must inform Jewish culture, or neither the Jewish Nation nor the State of Israel will be with us in 50-100 years. 9)
Simple? So it might be worth actually trying to understand the lessons of Torah, both as a work about moral and civilized behavior and as a spiritual thing, rather than arrogantly and ignorantly tossing it away like Aharon Barak." 10)