Tuesday, November 9, 2021

The Halacha of Rodef and the Rabin Shooting by Rabbi Chaim Jachter

 https://www.koltorah.org/halachah/the-halacha-of-rodef-and-the-rabin-shooting-by-rabbi-chaim-jachter-1

  The rules of Rodef, however, apply even in the absence of a Sanhedrin (Rambam Hilchot Rotze’ach 1:6-13 and Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat 425).  In fact, the Rama applies the Halacha of Rodef to one who engages in forgeries.  Government authorities in the past imposed severe collective punishments (including executions) upon the Jewish communities in which a Jewish forger resided.  Thus, the forger endangers the community and is treated with the severity of a Rodef.

Rabin’s assassin had no Halachic basis to shoot Prime Minister Rabin.  Professor Schochetman notes that the shooting caused grave damage to the opposition to the Oslo process.  Moreover, it caused a profound Chillul Hashem whose impact we experience even nine years after the shooting.  Professor Schochetman (paraphrasing Teshuvot Chavot Yair 138) correctly describes the shooting of Yitzchak Rabin as "an foreign, evil, and bitter act." It is foreign to the Jewish people, it has no Halachic basis, it is morally reprehensible, and it has had bitter ramifications for Israeli society.

23 comments:

  1. Nobody supports the shooting of Rabin. Netanyahu said we change governments by ballots and not bullets. In any case, Rabin was a political disaster, and his assassination /murder only strengthed the left and oslo

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  2. I believe, that Rabin was not the victim of an angry young man, Yigal Amir, but of a high-level political hit.

    He was likely murdered by people from his own camp; those who ostensibly were very close to him, and who afterwards worked very hard to cover their tracks.

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  3. It's entirely possible. People who want to believe in conspiracies miss the practical - it's not what happened but how you deal with what happened that matters.
    For our blogmaster, this is quite relevant. Let's say the 2020 election was indeed stolen and there is a giant conspiracy theory covering it up. The task for Republicans isn't to try and expend energy to expose it. The folks who created the conspiracy will have already anticipated that and moved to frustrate them. The task for Republicans is to prep for 2022 and regain their losses.
    Same with Rabin. He was shot. Whether it was a lone gunman, or a setup with an actual Mossad agent pulling the trigger, it's the response - preventing Rabin's people from using it to push through the Oslo disaster - was what mattered.

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  4. the theory is that Rabin was disillusioned, and he was also unpopular. They wanted to do a spoof assassination attempt, so Amir fired blanks. Rabin ws seen walking into his car unharmed. Later on he was dead with 3 shots and not 2. Also the journey from Kikar malchei Yisrael (Now Kikar rabin) to ichilov hospital took 20 minnutes, whereas it is only a 3 or 4 minute journey.
    All this according to Barry Chamish.

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  5. Here's just one tidbit, which seems to point to a cover-up.

    In the transcript of Yigal Amir's sentence, Judge Edmund Levy sets the time of the murder around 21:45. The same goes for the Shamgar Committee: "About 9:50 p.m." This time is very consistent with the arrival of Yitzhak Rabin to the hospital: 21:52, but does not correspond at all with the dry facts: Yigal Amir was already in custody at 21:30 !!! (The time can be seen on the watch, of one of the arresting officers).

    https://rotter.net/User_files/forum/5dc1b87c28a82f5b.jpg

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  6. Rabin is seen on film, showing no signs of pain upon being shot by Amir. He appears startled, and painlessly turns his head toward the direction of the shot. A person with the injuries he was later shown to have, should have displayed some pain and, if as claimed by hospital surgeons, his spine was shattered, he should have fallen on the spot. Yet Rabin "somehow" walked on his own strength to his limousine, an improbable or impossible feat.

    Notes written by doctors who examined Rabin at the hospital reveal that he was shot at point-blank range -- though the supposed assassin never get closer than six feet away.

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  7. I can make it even deeper. Peres wanted to be prime minister. Rabin had been the prime minister candidate in the previous election because polls showed that if Peres was, Labour would lose. So imagine Peres, the man who would be king. First he negotiates Oslo (in defiance of Israeli law), then forces it on Rabin, and then suddenly he watches as Oslo falls apart, his new bestie Yassir, y"sh, turns out to be - gasp! - a terrorist and Israelis are looking back to the right for leadership.
    So an assassination gets him everything. He gets to be PM, the right gets to be blamed, Oslo gets to continue.

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  8. More on my theory of Laban in parsha ויצא
    Laban, rotten scoundrel fraud, fooled even Jacob but not Rachel. Only Rachel knew Laban had idols.

    “And Laban said: It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the first-born. Fulfil the week of this one מלא שבועה זאת, and we will give thee the other also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.” (Genesis 29:26-27). Laban does only proper actions, the elder before the younger.

    Laban discusses the law with Jacob. Laban says that the marriage week must be full and not part of the 7th day counts as a whole day. No, Fulfil the week of this one מלא שבועה זאת.

    “And Laban said: Very well, let it be as you say הן לו יהי כדברך. And he removed that day the he-goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the dark ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons. And he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks ויעקב רעה את צאן לבן הנותרת.” (Genesis 30:34-36)

    Ordinarily very few streaked and spotted sheep and goats would come out from pure white sheep and goats. Yacov did the “And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink. And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.” (Idid. 38-39). God did a miracle for Jacob to become rich.

    Laban reneged on his word by transferring spotted and streaked to his sons. Laban looks good here: “Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been on my side, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and gave judgment yesternight. And Laban answered and said unto Jacob: The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine; and what can I do this day for these my daughters, or for their children whom they have borne? And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.” (Ibid.31:42-44).

    Hertz Chumash p. 116: “Laban is unable to answer Jacob’s reproaches, and therefore repeats the claim based on primitive usage, whereby the head of the family is the nominal possessor of all that belonged to its members. He then pretends to be solicitous for the welfare of his daughters and grandchildren.”

    I started today to return to conversations on the WSJ:
    “Opinion Who Bombed Iraq’s Mustafa al-Kadhimi? I live in Israel a supporter of Netanyahu and Trump. Surely it was the Iran-supported Shiite militias who bombed the prime minister of Iraq. Fascinating: “The major losers were the pro-Iran element. The Fatah Alliance, representing the bulk of the pro-Iranian militias, achieved only 17 seats. In the previous parliament, they held 48.” I see hope for Iraq. Trump did the hit January 2020 on Soleimani. Nov 9, 2021 2:35 AM 12 Likes”

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  9. Rabbi Chatzkal Sarna, Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin and Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach signed a document on 20 Tevet, 5709, (1949) than king God for granting them the privilege of witnessing “the first buds of t he beginning of the redemption through the establishment of the State of Israel” (referenced by Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef in Yabia Omer Orach Chayim 6:41).

    https://www.jpost.com/opinion/op-ed-contributors/why-haredim-should-be-zionists

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  10. And that proves what? That they weren't prophets?

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  11. Dov Lipman is not your best quality source!
    I just posted the original tshuva - tell me what this proves?

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  12. What are you there for, the good weather?

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  13. Not for theological reasons -It really is much nicer than Brooklyn

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  14. It is quite telling that our blogmaster has been completely silent about the subsequent unraveling of the "Russian collusion" narrative despite the news reporting very recently that it was all based on lies and the entire investigation was a complete fraud.

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  15. "rightwing media"
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/politics/igor-danchenko-arrested-steele-dossier.html
    Literally the source of your collusion fantasy, arrested for lying to FBI.
    There is no way to spin that. The whole thing was a hoax and you got fooled

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  16. Torah thought on parsha ויצא “And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean (lit. stole the mind of Laban the Armenian, similar in v. 26) , in that he told him not that he fled” (Genesis 31:20) “And Laban said to Jacob: ‘What hast thou done, that thou hast outwitted me, and carried away my daughters as though captives of the sword? Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and outwit me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp;” (Ibid 31:26-27).

    בראשית פרשת ויצא פרק לא פסוק כ
    וַיִּגְנֹב יַעֲקֹב אֶת לֵב לָבָן הָאֲרַמִּי עַל בְּלִי הִגִּיד לוֹ כִּי בֹרֵחַ הוּא:
    בראשית פרשת ויצא פרק לא פסוק כו
    וַיֹּאמֶר לָבָן לְיַעֲקֹב מֶה עָשִׂיתָ וַתִּגְנֹב אֶת לְבָבִי וַתְּנַהֵג אֶת בְּנֹתַי כִּשְׁבֻיוֹת חָרֶב:
    רש"י בראשית פרשת ויצא פרק לא פסוק כו
    כשביות חרב - כל חיל הבא למלחמה קרוי חרב:
    בראשית פרשת ויצא פרק לא פסוק כז
    לָמָּה נַחְבֵּאתָ לִבְרֹחַ וַתִּגְנֹב אֹתִי וְלֹא הִגַּדְתָּ לִּי וָאֲשַׁלֵּחֲךָ בְּשִׂמְחָה וּבְשִׁרִים בְּתֹף וּבְכִנּוֹר:
    רש"י בראשית פרשת ויצא פרק לא פסוק כז
    ותגנב אתי - גנבת את דעתי:
    קהלת רבה (וילנא) פרשה א
    הלב נגנב שנא' (שם /בראשית/ לא) ויגנוב יעקב את לב לבן,

    My theory. Laban had a big drop in his polls with Jacob וַיִּגְנֹב יַעֲקֹב אֶת לֵב לָבָן הָאֲרַמִּי עַל בְּלִי הִגִּיד לוֹ כִּי בֹרֵחַ הוּא:. Laban was angry that Jacob caused his polls to dive: וַיֹּאמֶר לָבָן לְיַעֲקֹב מֶה עָשִׂיתָ וַתִּגְנֹב אֶת לְבָבִי וַתְּנַהֵג אֶת בְּנֹתַי כִּשְׁבֻיוֹת חָרֶב.

    Laban, rotten scoundrel fraud, was a master in virtue signally and in fake news. Laban fooled Jacob and everyone, except the Matriarchs: “Are we not accounted by him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our price. For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children’s. Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.” (Genesis 31:15-16).

    Had Jacob told Laban Jacob was returning to Israel, Laban וָאֲשַׁלֵּחֲךָ בְּשִׂמְחָה וּבְשִׁרִים בְּתֹף וּבְכִנּוֹר. My theory fits the plain reading f the text.

    Thank God, Jacob, always believing in everyone goodness even Laban, God sent angels to watch over Jacob. Beautiful. KA, Garnel, IsraelReader---like even if you don’t agree?

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  17. A Trump talking point? I haven't heard from Trump in months, ever since he was banned from social media. What I comment comes from my brain, but since you have no answers, I must be under a Trumpian abduction. The Steele dossier was a fraud. If you were insane enough to be fooled by it and believe it, don't take it out on me.

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  18. Thanks KA for the uptick.
    Abraham had high hopes, that failed, for Ishmael
    Isaac had high hopes, that failed, for Esau
    Jacob had high hopes, that failed, for Laban

    The Matriarchs had more bina and a higher level of prophecy. My theory. We need to reconsider Ishmael, Esau, and Laban. On a plain level they look righteous. Our Sages portray them as rotten scoundrel frauds. What are the evidences, the sources, the witnesses to support our Sages ?

    Hillary Clinton, Comey, Adam Shiff, Mueller---on a plain level they look righteous. Why the deep dive of polls of Biden/Harris ?

    If the modern Ishmael, Esau, and Laban become good---mashiach, 3rd Temple.

    The Patriarchs wanted mashiach now. The Patriarchs thought Ishmael, Esau, and Laban good. The Matriarchs disagreed. Our Sages took the side of the Matriarchs.

    The Matriarchs dominated their husbands with the help of God. We need today the Patriarchs approach of love acceptance goodness to all. There must be no investigations of Comey, Adam Shiff, and Mueller.

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  19. “the Rabin Shooting ” Why is it important what happened---the assassination of Rabin? Allow me my letter to the NYS Court of Appeals Nov 10:

    "2. Exhibit A: Proof Jerusalem College Hired me EEJ 17 1 January-March 1991 states: Jerusalem College of Technology, 21 Havaad Haleumi Street, Jerusalem, Israel. Yes I was one a one way El Al flight to Israel with Susan, my wife at the time. This is proof I was not abandoning Susan. Susan abandoned me by reneging on her promises to live with me in Jerusalem.

    3. Exhibit B: Best Researcher Award on New Science Inventions May 2021 is proof I am a successful research scientist with a good record. Fordham University refused to give me a PhD degree for no good reason. CUNY gave me a PhD degree June 11, 1991. Thank you God in heaven.

    4.Exhibit C: Letter Supreme Court of the US October 19, 2021 states: please correct and resubmit as soon as possible. The NYS court of Appeals asked me never to call again, but I may write---click. The Supreme Court of the US takes my phone calls, tells me the contents of letters to me, and is friendly to me. I haven't heard from the Court, TIAA, or Susan in a long time.

    9..Based on evidence in these papers I request the Court to immediately suspend Judge Eric I. Prus right to practice law in NYS.”

    Today I received a letter dated October 26, 2021 from the NYS State Court of Appeals: “Re: Aranoff v Aranoff Mo. No. 2021-850 Dear Mr. Aranoff: Your letters dated October 17, 2021, October 20, 2021 and October 22, 2021 have been received and are before the Court...cc: Susan Aranoff”

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  20. The Gra aliyah who formed the old yishuv came for theological reasons. Economy was much harsher in those days.

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  21. CUNY being better recognised than Fordham

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