I missed where the Rebbe said he supports land for peace. In the video I posted he stated that a Jew must not surrender an inch of land because it will endanger Jewish life, not save it. Tell me how you believe that the Lubavitch Rebbe supported land for peace...
It is clear from listening to all the Rebbes discussions on the topic he would not support giving land for peace. This is because he believed that by giving our land this would reveal weakness which would result in the lives of Jews being placed in danger. It is the OPPOSITE of the land for peace scenario which Rabbi Yosef proposed (that giving land would save lives).
Listen to the Rebbe again and tell me how :
INTRODUCTION:
The Rebbe's approach to Israels security was built on the position of Jewish law that protecting lives must be the only concern of an arrangement, to the exclusion of any other considerations at all.
Here in 1980 shortly after Israel surrendered the Sinai the Rebbe urges the government NOT TO MOVE FORWARD with further concessions.
The Rebbe:
Because we live in a time of intense spiritual darkness, there are some Jews who mistakenly believe that they can achieve peace through an approach contrary to Torah, contrary to an explicit ruling in the Code of Jewish law, in the Laws of Shabbat, Chapter 329: If non-Jews beseige a Jewish villiage - approaching the border of any Jewish area, whether in the Holy Land or in the Diaspora, for the Talmud cites an example of the city of Nehardea, in Babylon - and the non-Jew state that they come only to pilfer straw, and then leave, since there is the slightest reason to suspect that their true intent is conquest - even if it's just a suspicion, and all the more so when they declare it openly - then because this makes the entire land vulnerable to attack, G-d forbid - no matter whether in the Diaspora or in the Holy Land itself, Jewish law mandates that Jews arm themselves for war, even on Shabbos.
Jews must stand steadfast in this way, this is the only way to bring true 'Peace upon the Land' - "Your fear and dread will be upon them," for we go out with "G-d's mighty arm," not relying on our own strength but upon the strength of the Code of Jewish Law. And this fear and dread will ultimately breed respect, for "All the nations of the earth will see that G-d's Name is upon you, and they will fear you" - they will revere the Jewish people.
Although we take a firm, uncompromising stance, showing that we possess physical weaponry, this is because G-d desires that during this exile we operate according to the natural order and take the necessary steps to deter non-Jews from harming Jews, from harming Jewish observance, and from harming even one single Jew, and from harming Jewish property - doing so, again, in the way Jewish law requires of us.
This is the approach that will cause the nations to respect us.Regardless of what they may have declared a short while earlier, it will be transformed: "Contrive a scheme, but it will be foiled; conspire a plot, but it will not materialize, for G-d is with us" - because we proceed with the authority of Jewish law.
We must unashamedly explain before all the nations that true, we are "scattered and divided amongst the nations" because we are in exile; but why are we in exile? - Only because G-d sent us there. No non-Jewish nation has any inherent power to harm a Jew; they are only in exile because G-d wills it so.
And so we are preparing ourselves at any moment, to immediately be redeemed.Through complete observance of Torah the cause of exile is annulled - for the exile was caused by only one thing: "Because of our sins, we were exiled from our Land." And at the very moment that we annul the cause of the exile, just as "G-d did not delay them in exile for even the blink of an eye," as occured during the Exodus from Egypt, likewise G-d declares, "I will show you miracles" in our exodus from this exile. But even during the exile, the one and only way for G-d to grant 'Peace upon the land' - a true peace without apprehension, where "You will sleep without fear," a lasting peace, which will be good for Jews, and the only peace that will be good for non-Jews as well - such a peace can only be attained through the path laid out by Torah, for "All her paths are peaceful," and "Torah was given to make peace in the world," as Maimonides rules explicitly in his code of Jewish law.
This is the one and only way to bring about peace in the world. "The word of our G-d endures forever." All the schemes, Heaven fofend, compromise the integrity of the Land - the complete Holy Land, "The Land which G-d's eyes are always upon, from the beginning of the year to the end" - these schemes compromise the integrity of Torah as well, the completeness of Torah, which has been laid before us as a 'set table,' as clear rulings in Jewish law.
This includes how to identify the 'beginning of the redemption' Moshiach must be the one to usher in this period, only after he influences the entire Jewish people to return to Torah observance, for Moshiach will toil and he will succeed, to bring all Jews back to full observance of Torah and Mitzvot - and this is the truest meaning of "He will fight the wars of G-d, and succeed."
This is the one and only way to leave exile. Still, G-d declares that even whilst we remain in exile, he is the "Protector of Israel," Who "neither slumbers, nor sleeps." And he has shown us the clear path to reveal this protection openly - through complete adherence to Torah and Mitzvot, including Torah's ruling on security, discussed above.
This will effectively deter our opponents, for as mentioned, we go "With G-d's mighty arm," "They will fall silent like stone" - they will stand still in their place like stone; "Fear and dread will fall upon them" - they will withdraw their pressure, and each one of them will return to his place, allowing the Jewish people to peacefully fulfill their mission to make a dwelling place for G-d in this world.
Topic: Land for Peace and HaRav Ovadia Yosef (Read 5070 times)