
During the struggle to recently pass the budget in the Knesset last month, Israeli Prime Minister Naftoli Bennett offered Meir Porush and Yisroel Eichler of UTJ a huge sum of money for yeshivos and organizations if they would abstain from voting to ensure it passed, since the budget’s failure would have spelled the automatic collapse of the Bennett/Lapid coalition.
The Agudah Moetzes torpedoed the deal, saying there must be no collaboration with the anti-religious government despite the huge monetary loss in turning down the offer.
It has been revealed that the offer was for $390 million, including $51 million for yeshivos, $40 million for dormitories, $34 million for special education, $21 million for seminaries, $14 million for shiurim, and millions for other activities of the Torah world.
{Matzav.com Israel}
I don’t need to agree with our Gedolei Yisroel to accept their decisions. I often don’t. Here, they are so right. They can certainly explain their conclusions much better than I can. But it’s worth a try.
Bribery is not a good thing. Buying votes is fundamentally dishonest. Both the giver and receiver of a bribe have a problem.
Our Chazal tell us אל תתחבר לרשע. Simple application of a Mishnah.
Cooperating with the Bennett regime is tacit to approving it and endorsing it.
What is the point? He is by time in Hashems kingdom. Take the offer. There is zero bias in breaking into an election cycle to think you nod better that Hashem provides.
This is century fit. And we can make dry the feeling that Israel has bad adult hundred years for motive.
A citizen has a face. A century has a yeshiva.
Hello, the government was making millions available to yeshivot. Real people would benefit. The results, people yidden have to suffer.
You, can support these yidden. Put your money where your mouth is.
B h, the Israel government is a government by the people for the people.
As this article says:
The Yeshivas would have gotten millions. Thousands of yidden lives would of been easier. Torah would be spread and more good would of happened.
But nooooooooo
Not everything is money.
Is every promise kept? You never heard of double crossing? If they had gone against the Torah and accepted this they would never have gotten the money.
What is the point if spreading Torah if people aren’t going to follow its admonitions such as “Don’t take bribes”?
source please?
Read the matzav article. Foyla mentch vos du bist.
Matzav Israel is not a source.
Trump offered me 10 million dollars
(Matzav Mar largo)
where is the evidence in this report that this happened?
This reminds me of the joke about the lady who wants to show off to her bridge club pals, who are over at her home playing bridge (rummikup?), how she can boss her husband around. So she calls him over and says “Henry, get under the table.” He submissively complies, evoking derisive laughter from the ladies. After the laughter subsides, she says, “OK Henry, you can come out now.” Realizing he’s being made a fool out of, he shouts angrily, “No, I won’t come out! I’ll show you who’s boss!”
… v’hameivin yovin …
Voice of Reason, I have news for you. You do need to accept what our gedolim say. Thats called emunas chachomim. And they certainly don’t need your approval! You may be a talmid chochom, but your knowledge cannot compare to what our gedolim say!
Don’t believe everything you read. Money talks.
The secular Israeli press is always attacking chareidim that all they try to do is squeeze money out of hardworking secular Israeli citizens and have no ideology just money… money… money. Here they made sure to bury this piece of news. Meantime, Mansour Abbas is doing the squeezing now and that’s OK because it is undemocratic to criticize an Arab.
The less the Zionists fund Torah, the sooner that heretical movement and its entities will finally disappear into the dustbin of history.
On another note, this reminds me of a story with the Brisker Rav. A Rav came to him and said that the Zionist leader David Green (a.k.a. Ben-Gurion) offered him a lot of money for his yeshiva on condition that during the upcoming elections this Rav would confirm receipt of the money. That’s it.
So he went to ask the Brisker Rav to ask if he should take the money. The Brisker Rav asked him to return the next day. So he did.
The Brisker Rav said that there is no question that the Zionists’ objective is to destroy Torah. So, regardless of how innocuous this seems, since David Green is a better businessman than we are, then you should turn down the money. So he did.