The Ignorance and Arrogance of Rabbi Avi Shafran
I was not surprised by the vile views expressed by Rabbi Avi Shafran, spokesman for Agudath Israel of America. I was surprised that he decided at this most sensitive time to publically blame Jews for the crime of trying to pray on the Temple Mount. There is no doubt that such an attitude both legitimizes and strengthens Arab violence with a rabbinic stamp of approval! In my eyes, Shafran’s comments border on the criminal and he should be condemned by all!
In a recent article posted in Ha’aretz, Rabbi Shafran tries to place the blame of Arab violence on Jews who ascend to the Temple Mount in accordance with Jewish Law. He makes several astounding statements in his article, which distort history, …show more content…
I should note that the closest students of Rabbi Goren deny that the conversation ever took place. I heard directly from Rabbi Goren’s personal driver that the conversation never happened. Moshe Dayan, who was an extremely anti-Religious Jew and did not want to even liberate the Old City and certainly had no intention of ever harming the Dome of the rock. In fact, when Dayan reached the Mount and witnessed the glorious sight of an Israeli flag unfurled over the Dome of the Rock itself, he demanded its immediate removal. Dayan shamefully went into the Al Aqsa Mosque took off his shoes and forfeited the greatest Jewish victory since the time of the Maccabees by granting the Arabs full control of the holy Mount. “The Temple Mount is in our Hands”, was over within three short days and the great betrayal had begun.
I should mention that Dayan tried to pull the same stunt in Hebron at the Cave of the Patriarchs, but in the holy Cave all the Rabbis backed Rabbi Shlomo Goren and the Torah stayed in and the flag of our freedom stood high and proud over the …show more content…
Rabbi Goren wrote a very detailed and comprehensive book titled “The Temple Mount”, which is replete with detailed maps and Rabbinic and biblical sources. With the former Chief Rabbi’s work, plus the illegal Arab digs that have taken place over the past 15 years, we know definitively where one may or may not tread on the Mount. Also, according to all rabbinic opinions it is forbidden for non-Jews to tread on the spot of the Temple as
I was not surprised by the vile views expressed by Rabbi Avi Shafran, spokesman for Agudath Israel of America. I was surprised that he decided at this most sensitive time to publically blame Jews for the crime of trying to pray on the Temple Mount. There is no doubt that such an attitude both legitimizes and strengthens Arab violence with a rabbinic stamp of approval! In my eyes, Shafran’s comments border on the criminal and he should be condemned by all!
In a recent article posted in Ha’aretz, Rabbi Shafran tries to place the blame of Arab violence on Jews who ascend to the Temple Mount in accordance with Jewish Law. He makes several astounding statements in his article, which distort history, …show more content…
I should note that the closest students of Rabbi Goren deny that the conversation ever took place. I heard directly from Rabbi Goren’s personal driver that the conversation never happened. Moshe Dayan, who was an extremely anti-Religious Jew and did not want to even liberate the Old City and certainly had no intention of ever harming the Dome of the rock. In fact, when Dayan reached the Mount and witnessed the glorious sight of an Israeli flag unfurled over the Dome of the Rock itself, he demanded its immediate removal. Dayan shamefully went into the Al Aqsa Mosque took off his shoes and forfeited the greatest Jewish victory since the time of the Maccabees by granting the Arabs full control of the holy Mount. “The Temple Mount is in our Hands”, was over within three short days and the great betrayal had begun.
I should mention that Dayan tried to pull the same stunt in Hebron at the Cave of the Patriarchs, but in the holy Cave all the Rabbis backed Rabbi Shlomo Goren and the Torah stayed in and the flag of our freedom stood high and proud over the …show more content…
Rabbi Goren wrote a very detailed and comprehensive book titled “The Temple Mount”, which is replete with detailed maps and Rabbinic and biblical sources. With the former Chief Rabbi’s work, plus the illegal Arab digs that have taken place over the past 15 years, we know definitively where one may or may not tread on the Mount. Also, according to all rabbinic opinions it is forbidden for non-Jews to tread on the spot of the Temple as