Q&A: Theory
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Theory
Question
What does the Rabbi think of this analysis by Micah Goodman? Does he agree or strongly disagree? https://www.makorrishon.co.il/opinion/541043/ It’s a bit long, but I’d be glad if the Rabbi would read it anyway.
Answer
I read it yesterday, and I definitely agree. It’s an excellent analysis. It’s important to understand that the fact that a person is an accomplished liar and acts out of self-interest does not mean he has no positions or worldview, nor even that he is not advancing them.
Almost 30 years ago I read Bibi’s A Place Under the Sun, and in fact he has not introduced anything new since then.
The ideology has remained the same ideology.
In reality, of course, he acted the opposite way: he gave Hebron to the Arabs, signed the Wye Plantation agreements, sent Ron Lauder to Assad the father with agreement to come down from the entire Golan except for a few hundred meters around the Kinneret.
In economics, he gave the Haredim money so they could sink into ignorance, poverty, backwardness, and being a burden on the people. The opposite of what he wrote and supposedly believes.
In practice he did exactly the opposite of what he wrote in his ideology.
Of course, the personal corruption does not appear in the ideology, though some of the baseless hatred that he suffers from and spreads among the people does peek through in his book A Place Under the Sun.
Nowhere in A Place Under the Sun does the name of Heaven appear, except for one small linguistic note at the bottom in the footnotes.