Sunday, May 10, 2009

A lot of people come up to me and say,
"Yitzchak Zev Soloveichik, as the most authentic, and accepted representative of Brisk and the Soloveichik family today, what is Brisk's stance on Zionism?"
This is a very difficult Question to answer because Briskers are very simmilar to other factions in the Torah world where there is legitimate disagreements on many fundamental issues. The smart Briskers (commonly known as and henceforth referred to as "American Briskers") are generally in favor of the idea that the Jews should establish an independent settlement and government in Eretz Yisroel. This is based on the fact that The Holy One Blessed Be He gave us the land of Israel for this express purpose and command us to do so. The Brisker not falling under the above mentioned classification (henceforth and more commonly known as the Israeli Briskers) would respond "Hold on just one minute, lets not confuse Torah and Daas Torah." Just because the Torah commands us to do something that doesn’t mean we should actually do it. What do our Rabbis tell us? After all, who are we to try to understand that which is clearly stated in the Torah when some of our lesser teachers (hence forth known as "Gdolim" for the sake of the common vernacular.) tells us that they have decided something contrary to G-d's eternal commandments to the Jewish people on earth embodied by the Torah given to Moshe Rabbanu on Har Sini? This concept is known as Daas Torah, the central idea being that Daas Torah is the Guide by which we should lead our lives lest we wander astray following the precepts of the Ol Malchus Shamayim we accepted when we said NaAsseh ViNishma."
I hope that this clears some things up for anybody reading this.

5 comments:

  1. I hope you burn in hell!!!

    Charadie

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  2. as you can see charadie is not the brightest guy on the planet. i was wondering if you could write on you profile or on this blog your geneology back to reb chaim.
    thanks
    farmer bob

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  3. I hope You Die

    Rocco Lampoon

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  4. Dear Rabbi,
    With tears in my eyes I read your holy fearless words of truth. Your family must be so proud of such a spokesman! You remind me of the great Sages of the past with your incisive and articulate responses. I hope you can find more time to continue enlightening us.
    Humbly,
    klaus

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  5. I don't understand this answer. Seems like the respondent is skating around the question.

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