Q&A: The State-ism — Religious Zionist
The State-ism — Religious Zionist
Question
With God’s help,
Hello Rabbi,
I wanted to ask, in all due respect, it seems to me that for some people, God forbid, it’s easier to accept your position regarding prayer and other very significant parts of a Jew’s life.
But it’s hard for some of them to accept your secular approach toward the state-ism of the Zionists. Why?
Answer
Ask them.
Discussion on Answer
I never understood these extrapolations.
What is the reason to apply this statement of Rav beyond the specific context in which he said it?
Rav brought the extreme example that supposedly has the least connection to forbidden sexual relations, and that is a serious transgression in its own right no less, and he revealed that at the root of things it was all interests driven by the impulse for forbidden sexual relations. So in easier cases, it is reasonable to assume that the motive is also the impulse for forbidden sexual relations.
Here, for example.
https://mikyab.net/%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA/%d7%a1%d7%a8%d7%98%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%a2%d7%9D-%d7%9E%d7%A8%D7%90%D7%95%D7%AA-%d7%9C%D7%90-%d7%A6%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%9D
Sanhedrin 64a:
Rav Yehuda said in the name of Rav: The people of Israel knew that idolatry had no substance, and they worshiped idols only in order to permit themselves forbidden sexual relations in public.