The Birth of the Zionist Movement

It says, in 1943 when the Jews were starving to death in the ghettos of Europe and a couple of thousand of them were being sent to the gas chambers on a daily basis Yitzhak Greenbaum says the following. When they asked me if I can use the money for our organization, Keren Hayesod to save Jewish people from being killed cuz you could have bought Jews cuz the Nazis needed money. So they were willing to sell Jews. >> [music] >> So it's can we use the money to save some Jews from being sent to the gas chambers? He says, "No. And I say again, no. We have to be strong that everything that we're doing is just for the sake of Zionism." This all started with Moses Mendelssohn. Moses Mendelssohn got punished measure for measure. All of his kids became cofrim. Some of them even converted to Christianity. Eventually, the Enlightenment movement became the stepping stone for Zionism. Which we'll talk a little bit about now. About what actually that means. Why is there Why is the connection between them important? Rabbi Wasserman says that the fruits of this ideal quickly ripened. The sons of its adherents became complete cofrim. All of people that followed this mentality of uh be a Jew in your tent and a man in the streets all of their children became heretics. Similar to what's happening to modern Orthodoxy now. Modern Orthodoxy is one generation away from being reformed. If that much. The idea was an undermining of the fundamentals of the Torah. The Torah warned us that the Jews must be separated from the nations in their whole way of living. As it says in Parshat Kedoshim Vayikra chapter 20 verse 26 Hashem says to Am Yisrael, "And I have separated you from the nations to be mine." Keep that verse in mind as we will go back to it throughout this shoe of what does it mean that Hashem says, "Be separate from the nations?" Because that's the symbol that you are mine. Now Rabbi Wasserman also has a different maamar a different a uh sefer that he wrote which is called Kovetz Maamarim. In Chelek Aleph Amud Rabbi Wasserman Hakadosh writes the following. Says the kinghood, the leadership, the control of Yisrael Am Yisrael, Eretz Yisrael, the real one is the highest merit of all. Whoever's going to be the king the leader of Am Yisrael is going to be the biggest tzaddik in the world. Moshe Rabbeinu was the biggest tzaddik in the world. Yehoshua bin Nun after him was the biggest tzaddik in the world. The leaders always the biggest tzaddikim in the world. Why? Hashem picks the biggest tzaddik in the world. He doesn't make any mistakes. At the time uh Shaul became the first king, official king of Am Yisrael, he was the biggest tzaddik in the world to the extent where the pasuk says that when Shaul became a king, he was like a 1-year-old baby. So you say, "What? He was only 1 year old?" No, he was already a teenager, but he had the sins of a 1-year-old. Zero sins. 20 years in the world, never sinned a single time in his life. That's how much of a tzaddik he was. David Hamelech that followed him, obviously everybody knows the righteousness of David Hamelech. And so and so forth. So to have such position, Hakadosh Baruch Hu gives to the biggest tzaddikim. So Rabbi Wasserman says, "To have this Of course it's going to come to the biggest tzaddikim. But the tzionim, the Zionists are the biggest reshaim," he says. They're the most obligatory. They're the ones that have the most sins. And anyone that believes that Hashem will give the highest merit to the biggest sinner is either stupid, tipesh or is making fun of the sages. Anyone that thinks that the Zionists that ran the country at its, you know, 1948 time frame or that are still running the country to a certain extent now anyone that thinks that that's that's our Mashiach, that Bibi Netanyahu and his buddies and his enemies, all of these lefty liberals and atheist mentality people if you think they're the righteous they're our Mashiachs, they're our leaders, they're either an idiot with a stamp from Rabbi Wasserman Rabbi Wasserman says, "I'm going to send you a certificate to your house." Idiot for thinking that. Or you're just a person that makes fun of the sages, makes fun of the Torah. It cannot be a you cannot be a chacham. So whenever he says, "Oh yeah, go Bibi, go this one, go that one, that's our" Rabbi Wasserman, going to send you a postcard. With a stamp on it. Why? Medinat Yisrael chilonit u'malchut Yisrael hamiyuchelet hen tartei d'satri. The he says that the secular Israel led by the secular government is the opposite in essence of what the Torah wants. So then people ask, "Why do you have so much against the Zionists?" Well, let's see who we have what we have about them. We've talked about this in the past. We have some new ones that I mentioned in Hebrew and people asked me to mention it in English. A Sofer Chaim Azaz who was one of the big big wigs in Zionism, lived from 1898 to says that Zionism and Judaism are not one thing. In fact, there are two completely different things. In fact, they contradict each other. A person when a person cannot be a Jew, he becomes a Zionist. Meaning, when he doesn't want to keep Torah and Mitzvot what do you do? NO, NO, I'M A ZIONIST. I'M A ZIONIST SUPPORTER. Hence the reason, by the way, in small little sugayim in in parentheses, that's why there are many Christian Zionists. It's not because they love the Jews. It's because they like the Jews to be their customers for Christianity. They like to convert them and missionize against them. So they say, "NO, WE'RE ZIONISTS. WE'RE ZIONISTS. YEAH, we support Israel." Yeah, you're investing in Israel. It's marketing so you convert all of them, chas v'shalom. That's what you're doing. So all of these people that work with the Christians, the so-called Orthodox rabbis like Riskin that we mentioned on Sunday, Machshimo, and his students, Ephraim and Mr. Robinson, and other organizations, CCJ, and all of these people that work with Christians like Miller, Bisderashai, and Dweck, all of these people, Abotai, these are 100% erev rav. There's no question about it. Why? You cannot work with the enemy and still be considered a friend. You say, "Well, what do you mean? But the Christians are nice to us." How are they nice to us? What? They stopped killing us in the streets for a little while? What are they nice to us about? So now instead of killing us in the streets, they're just killing our neshamos by converting a half a million Jews in the last 20 years. It's actually better off they kill people than convert people. Which may be starting soon, unfortunately. So the point is, Abotai, is that people have a mistake a mistaken understanding of what a friend really is. Why? Because they don't know what it means to be a Jew. They think that by being a Zionist that makes you a Jew. Now, people also think that being a Zionist means that, you know, you are you know, if you're not a Zionist, you're anti-Eretz Yisrael. This is wrong. Every Jew should be a supporter of Eretz Yisrael. There are Jews there. The most amount of Jews in the world that live live in Eretz Yisrael. Everyone should be a supporter of Eretz Yisrael and the Jews that are there, including the secular ones for the sake of them doing teshuvah. But to be a supporter of the government, the the secular mentality, the lefty liberalism, the the anti-Torah mentality, no, that's it's it's you pretty much have to be an anti-Torah to be a supporter of that. To be a religious Zionist is a little bit of an oxymoron. That's why even sometimes religious Zionists themselves do not know where to put themselves. Why? Because it's very confusing. Why? Because many of their heroes are the people we're going to talk about today. You see, these people are 100% worse than Hitler. With no exception. In fact, let's read more about them. Chaim Weizmann told us that Zionism and Judaism are two different things and he continues and he says, "Zionism begins when Judaism is destroyed." So, anyone that thinks that the founders of Zionism were pro-Judaism is mistaken. Here we see from Chaim Weizmann, the author in a It was in Musaf Haaretz a night published in Elul of 1943. And he also finalizes this part. I'm not reading every word cuz it's too long. He says that make sure you understand and pay attention that Zionism is not a continuation of Judaism. It's not even a new version of it. It has nothing to do with it and it's in essence uh something that's there to destroy Judaism. Now, Menachem Ussishkin, one of the again, the one of the uh big big wigs in Zionism, one of the roshim, one of the heads in the beginning. He says, "What's the difference between a big war and a small war in Israel?" What's the difference between Jews dying in the exile versus Jews dying in Israel? He says that the the ones that are dying in outside, they're they're not really significant to us. They're not really important to us. If Jews dies in Europe or they die in America or anywhere else, we don't really care so much about them. Because there was no significance to their life in the first place. There's no point to their life in the first place. But the ones that died in in our country, in Eretz Yisrael, we they're they're important to us. Meaning, if you didn't live in Eretz Yisrael, your life simply did not matter to one of the founders of Zionism. Written in a sefer called Shoah Mishamaim, heavenly holocaust. Another one, Yosef Chaim Brenner in a also in a sefer called Shoah Mishamaim. He was a author of Ish Vedid Ha He was a Ish Vedid Ha'avoda. He was a uh uh inspi- inspiration and a one of the uh friends of Zionism lived from 1881 to 1921. And this is his opinion about Jewish people. He says so, our our uh you know, the Jews in essence are insignificant in comparison to the rest of the world. "What do you want from the anti-Semites?" He's asking, "What do you want from the anti-Semites? What do you have something against them?" "Why don't you understand what's clearly understandable? The reason why they hate Jews is because Jews are filth. Jews are waste of life. Jews are disgusting. They're not even people. They're like injured dogs. But the Europeans are are choking them without any mercy, they're destroying something that's disgusting anyway. They should be respected for doing such a thing." Because us Jews we're not He's a Jew. He's not a He's not a Nazi. He acts like a Nazi, but he's not a Nazi. He says, "Because because we are not even people. We're not even people." Written in Shoah Mishamaim, page 79. What is he What is he like? What is this filth of a human being, Yosef Chaim Brenner? What is he like? He says that we we are the filth of all of the ghettos. We are filth of the world. But me for myself, my book is the New Testament. He says, "It's It's the bone of our bones. It's the blood It's the flesh of our of our bodies. New Testament. Zionism." Makes fun of the way Jewish people look with their beards and their payots. Says that they're second level second rate citizens with no merits whatsoever and no rights. They shouldn't have any rights. We go to his buddy, Yitzhak Gruenbaum. He was responsible for Hatzalah. And he was also the secretary in the government of Ben-Gurion. When Ben-Gurion was the prime minister. Lived from 1879 to 1970. And says in 1943, when the Jews were starving to death in the ghettos of Europe, and a couple of thousand of them were being sent to the gas chambers on a daily basis, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Yimach Shmo, says the following. He says, "When they asked me if I can use the money for our organization, Keren Hayesod, to save Jewish people from being killed, cuz you could have bought Jews, cuz the Nazis needed money. So, they were willing to sell Jews. So, can we use some money to save some Jews from being sent to the gas chambers?" There was a specific a uh deals that were discussed. In one case, there was a deal with I believe it was 2,600 or 2,900 Jews that were offered to them. "Can we use it to save 26,000 2,600 Jews?" He says, "No. And I say again, no. We have to be strong that everything that we're doing is just for the sake of Zionism. That's going to bring our salvation, not these filthy animals like his buddy called them." Says, "When they offer me to to save Jews in Europe or to be given the land of Israel, I clearly will pick Israel." Meaning, he'd rather have a piece of land than 6 million people. Showing you how much of a pro-Jew this person was. And if they were giving them, let's say, a less Jews in Eretz Yisrael versus a lot more Jews outside, says less Jews in Eretz Yisrael. Why? Again, did not like Jewish people. Was a anti-Semite like the rest of them.