Phony "Rabbis" Stage Fast For Arabs In Gaza

According to The Jerusalem Post, a group of American impostor “Rabbis” are staging a Jewish fast for Gaza. The article states:

led by rabbis Brian Walt, former executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights-North America and Brant Rosen of the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston, Illinois, is taken from the Jewish tradition of holding a communal fast in times of crisis.

Well, it looks like Rabbi Brenda is at it again! Jews against Judaism. In actuality when we fast here in Israel, it is for the sins of people like this-these vile people who attempt to use their false teaching as a weapon against the Torah community and Israel as a whole.

Their website states:

The Talmud teaches,
On three things the world stands: on justice, on truth, and on peace (Mishnah Avot 1:18).

Wowee! The Talmud? There is no section “Avot,” or fathers, in the Talmud-in either the Bavli or the Yerushalmi! Perhaps they meant to say “Mishna Avot.” The Amoraim who compiled the Talmud never chose to comment on פרקי אבות (Chapters of Our Fathers). However this brings up a related topic-the obsession of the heretical movements in “Judaism” with Pirkei Avot. They have created a new religion, actually, called “Pirkei Avot!” The unfortunate irony is that the forefathers of the Jewish people עה”ש would be fasting and crying (maybe they are) knowing that Jews are using religious rituals as a method of helping the enemies of Israel. Perhaps this is even a kind of idolatry!

Another mistake that these “Rabbis” made was a mistranslation of a quote from Pirkei Avot:

On three things the world stands: on justice, on truth, and on peace (Mishnah Avot 1:18).

Here, the word din דין, from the verb “la-dun”-to judge, is actually translated judgment. In fact justice, tsedek צדק, is a totally different word with a different root in Hebrew! These are “Rabbis!” Check out the Pinas Kehati English translation of the Misha to verify this. The original Hebrew is below.

משנה מסכת אבות פרק א

על שלשה דברים העולם עומד, על הדין ועל האמת ועל השלום, שנאמר (זכריה ח) אמת ומשפט שלום שפטו בשעריכם

Are these people aware that Sderot and others areas in the south of Israel were under siege for years? Where were they? I don’t see one Sephardic name on that list. However, the south of Israel-Ashkelon, Sderot, Ashdod are filled will Mizrachi Jews-poorer Jews put, by the government of Israel (by their own admission) into far away places with desolate economies. And now a group of snotty, ignorant, self-righteous “Jewish leaders” from North America are going to stage a fast for those who have been tormenting them for years-even after the withdraw from and illegal destruction of Jewish houses in Gaza (the ethnic cleansing of Gaza).

Recently, I went to a lecture in Ramat Shlomo of Rabbi Moshe Shapira שליט”א in which he said that the greatest evidence of truth is when lies bow and prostrate themselves before truth and admit to their falsehood. Here in Israel, we are waiting for that day to come!

Justin White
Jerusalem, Israel
July 2009