Rav Yaakov Galinsky vs Zionism (A BeEzrat HaShem Inc. Film)

0:09Rav Galinsky, alav haShalom, was one of the giants of his generation and surely thereafter. A giant in Torah from Novardok. In Novardok, one of the things that they learned is that it's critical for a person to run away from anything to do with pride. So anytime somebody would give him honor, especially since he was so famous and a scholar, he would literally do things that were ridiculous just to bring shame to himself and make sure that they were not giving him any honor. Of course, if somebody doesn't deserve honor and they get honor, them bringing shame to themselves is not really such a big deal. They don't deserve it in the first place. When someone really does deserve honor and he's getting it, but yet he runs away from it, that's significant. So, for example, when he went to one wedding and they wanted him to speak, they told him, "The tzaddik, the kadosh, the this, the that," all the compliments that they gave him. And they gave him the microphone. So he didn't like the honor of the game. So he took the microphone and he started putting it in his ear as if he had never seen a microphone. After already giving thousands of lectures and knowing everything there is about microphones, he put it in his ear. "What? Can you hear me? Can you hear me?" as if he's some fool.

1:11So the people were laughing and, you know, having a good time. And he was enjoying the fact that he made himself look like a fool. And then, after that, he says, "Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce to you the tzaddik, the kadosh, the chacham, the giant in Torah, the this, the that, Yankele Galinsky." Meaning, who is he? He's introducing himself. Everybody's looking, he's laughing. Why? He goes... It's funny, right? I found it funny also. Why are you guys giving me all these compliments? What am I, the chatan? You just gave me a bunch of compliments for no reason? Hey, let's teach Torah. Why are you giving me all these compliments? This Rav Galinsky, HaKadosh, HaTahor, he was around during the time of the Zionists that they were doing everything possible to destroy Judaism. And one of the things they would do is they would go to different places to encourage people to make Aliyah to Eretz Yisrael. As soon as the people go to their events, they would tell them, listen, If you're going to come here, you have to go to this school. There is no other school available in Eretz Yisrael. This is the school that's available. What kind of school? It's a school that's pretty much a public school, an anti-Torah school, a Zionist school. Even though there were yeshivot, there were places to learn Torah, it would make it seem as if those things didn't exist. To make sure that people would sign up their kids to the school, they would simply tell them, "Listen, if you want food for your kids, the only way you're going to get food is if they go to school. There is no other way. So either they starve to death without going to school, or they go to school." Many of these simple people from Morocco...

2:22would make it seem as if those things didn't exist, and to make sure that the people would sign up their kids to the school, they would simply tell them, "Listen, if you want food for your kids, the only way you're gonna get food is if they go to school. There is no other way, so either they starve to death without going to school, or they go to school." Many of these simple people from Morocco from Iran, from Syria, from different parts of Europe, and so on and so forth, that were religious people, what are they gonna do? They want to go to Eretz Yisrael, they want to make Aliyah, so let's sign up their kids. And many of them, unfortunately, the second they would get into Eretz Yisrael, their kids would be taken off the derech, completely lose everything relating to Judaism, and disconnect themselves from their parents, their grandparents, and all of their ancestors before, going back even to Moshe Rabbeinu. Why? He started going to non-religious schools and Torah schools, and as I know perfectly well myself from my own blood, sweat, and tears—all the things that I had to do to change my life in order to do Teshuvah, to fix the miseducation that I got as a child.

3:31These Zionists wanted to make sure that this intermarriage and destruction of Judaism would continue, even in the Land of Israel. And they would tell them all types of lies by forcing them to sign up for non-religious schools. Rav Galinsky was part of one of those meetings one time, but he already knew about these Zionists, these evil Zionists. The Zionist speaker spoke, And the crowd wasn't really convinced. The speaker said, "Does anybody else have anything to say?" So Rav Galinsky, who was a very small man, said, "Yeah, I have something to say. I have something to say." So he came up on stage. They brought him on stage. He was a very little person, a giant in Torah, a giant in Kedusha, but small in appearance. So he stood on top of the stage. He said to the people, "No, you have an opportunity." go to Eretz Yisrael, and you don't even realize what you have. Do you understand how many mitzvot we have in the Torah that have to do with Eretz Yisrael? Two-thirds of the Shas, the Talmud Bavli, have to do with Eretz Yisrael. Two-thirds of the Chumash have to do with Eretz Yisrael. So many mitzvot, so many mitzvot. You have to understand

4:41Moshe Rabbeinu, Moshe Rabbeinu, as it says in the Gemara Masechet Sotah, wanted to go to Eretz Yisrael. And the Gemara says in Masechet Sotah, page 14a, why did Moshe Rabbeinu want to enter Eretz Yisrael? I mean, clearly, Hashem said no. So, says Rabbi Simlai, did Moshe really need to enter Eretz Yisrael for the sake of himself? rather, it was because Moshe Rabbeinu knew that there are specific mitzvot you could only do in Eretz Yisrael. And HaKadosh Baruch Hu says to him, because you want to go to Eretz Yisrael just for the sake of fulfilling the mitzvot, not to get reward in this world, and not even to get reward in the next world, but rather because you want to fulfill the mitzvot of the Torah, to give them a permanent status in a permanent part of Am Yisrael just like the rest of the Torah because you want to do it I'm going to give you the credit as if you fulfilled those mitzvot even though I'm not going to allow you to enter Eretz Yisrael so comes Rav Galinsky and says... status in a permanent part of Am Yisrael just like the rest of the Torah. Because you want to do it, I'm going to give you the credit as if you fulfilled those mitzvot, even though I'm not going to allow you to enter Eretz Yisrael. So, comes Rav Galinski and says

5:55You, Rabotai, have an opportunity to go to Eretz Yisrael and fulfill those mitzvot and even do something that Moshe Rabbeinu was not able to do. How great is that? All of a sudden, all the Zionists are clapping for this rabbi and the people, "Wow, wow, we can do it like Moshe Rabbeinu? That's interesting, that's interesting." Then comes Rav Galinsky and says to them, "He says, Rabotai Yekarim, Rabotai Yekarim. What did Moshe Rabbeinu want to do? He wanted to go to Eretz Yisrael to fulfill the mitzvot, not to go on vacation in Tel Aviv, not to go and lay under the sun on the beach in Netanya, but to fulfill the mitzvot." And these reshaim Zionists will never allow you to do it because they're anti-Torah and their number one goal is to destroy it. And before he could start the next sentence, they tackled him off the stage and started beating him senseless.

7:04And Rebbetzin, his wife, was in the crowd and started screaming, "They're killing my husband, they're killing my husband," until they finally let him go. But he was full of bruises, full of blood, but full of Kedusha. Because he told Am Yisrael the truth, even though it literally put his life on the line. Many people think that living in Eretz Yisrael is something you need to do no matter what. But the truth be told, the greatest poskim throughout all of our history have told us specifically that if it comes to living in Eretz Yisrael, if it's going to help your Torah learning, help your religiosity, help you get closer to Hashem, sure, you should live in Eretz Yisrael.

8:22I bless the rabbis, Rabbi Yaron Reuven, Rabbi Efraim Kachlon, the leaders of the group, with the help of G-d. May they be blessed and successful. May G-d bless them. May G-d bless them. May G-d bless them. May G-d bless them.