Jerusalem – Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Chief Rabbi of Efrat on Saturday night compared US President Barack Obama to Haman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Mordechai.
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Speaking at the Jerusalem Great Synagogue, the American born Riskin said that he could not understand what was going through Obama’s mind.
“The President of the United States is lashing out at Israel just like Haman lashed out at the Jews,” he said. “I’m not making a political statement,” he clarified, “I’m making a Jewish statement.” When a woman in the audience shouted out that Riskin was being disrespectful to the President of the United States, she was booed by the crowd. Riskin said he didn’t need any help from the audience. “I am being disrespectful because the President of the United States was disrespectful to my Prime Minister, to my country, to my future and to the future of the world.”
Just as Mordechai was focused on saving the Jews of Persia from destruction, Riskin noted, so Netanyahu is focused on saving Israel and the world from destruction.
Riskin said more than once throughout his address that he was proud of Netanyahu, and added that he did the right thing in speaking to Congress “even if it angered Obama.”.
Riskin also drew an analogy between the conquest of Babylon by ancient Persia and the armed conflict between Iran and Iraq.
In relation to Iran, Riskin said that the only difference between Iran and ISIS (the Islamic State) was who would be using power to control the world.
Closer to home, Riskin said that one of Israel’s greatest tragedies is that the rabbinate is enmeshed in politics. Alluding to Shas leader Arye Deri, Riskin declared that he didn’t know how someone who went to jail for bribery could be put back into the same place without ever admitting to his guilt or expressing remorse.
Riskin insisted that this was not compatible with Jewish philosophy. “What we’re all about is compassionate righteousness and moral justice,” he said. “We have to have a free voice that is not politically fettered.”
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Haman was not mentally ill, just a Rasha.
Obama is both.
Does Obama have a narcissistic personality disorder?
You can Google it!
You will be surprised to find that what we all suspect, is indeed true.
You don’t have to be Nuts, to be a Rasha, but it certainly helps, to make an ordinary Anti Semite, in to an even bigger Rasha.
An ordinary Anti Semite, who is not ‘out of his mind’, understands, that there are consequences, to him fulfilling his evil wish, but someone who is also (a little) Nuts at the same time, does not fear the consequences of him showing his true colors.
One thing Mordechai HATZADIK had over Natanyahu. Mordechai HATZADIK was a TZADIK who was SHOMER TORAH U’MITZVOS. Alas, the PM is not. IYH he will be.
While Bibi may not be a Chomer Torah Umitzvot he is trying to stand up to a person who wants to destroy Jews and the Jewish homeland. He should be praised for that as that is more than the frum crowd is doing just now.
Are the frumies waiting for another holocaust to begin before they raise their voices? Now is the time to stand up and be counted. Don’t stand on the sidelines but contact you congressional representative in support of Bibi and Israel.
Chief Rabbi of Efrat? Wow? What is his problem. Cam down. You are going to be the Chief Rabbi of Palestine if you stay in Efrat for a year or two.
I never thought I’d agree with anything Riskin says, but he’s right, at least about Obama ha-rasha. Ma sheh en kain by Netanyahu whose similarity to Mordechai hatzaddik is anything but!
He should be ashamed of himself to compare our president to Haman.
He should be ashamed to compare Mordechai Hatzaddik to lahvdil Netanyahu.
Didn’t Riskin recently pasken to train and seat female dayanim (oops, dayanot) in batei din? That there was no halachic objection to same?
We truly live in a “daas yachid” era. Every Jew for him(her)self.
The scandal is Obama against the Sleep of the Jewish Mind.
Obama is a gross enactment of an irregular hope.
Catalog Obama as a time of pain for a broken idea of life.
He is like a watery eyed nazi who has forgotten that the furher does not have a religion.
Disgusting.
I hope he has more absolution than to sit on his haunches and go after the jewish people in his last two ineffective years of office.
Pray he has more than lamps to make of our future.
Disgusting.
obama is a rasha but Haman was a rasha with a brain; obama is a rasha just to be a rasha. he should go and join Haman; but we will not have a holiday for him when he goes to geheinom
As a matter of fact Hamans middle name was hussein and he was black. Just for your information.
Hey Mr. Bewiskered, where have you been? We have been waiting for you to regurgitate your Haimeshe bigot garbage again. Get this straight, we don’t like Obama for what he is doing not because he is black. I’m sure that is probably too complicated for you to understand and you’ll be back soon with the same stoooopid comment but at least I tried.
Isn’t he right?!
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.-Fernando Pessoa
The aforementioned quote explains the real reason behind the general consensus of Jews behind Bibi Netanyahu’s actions; Stupidity.