Rav Avigdor Miller
on Voting in Eretz Yisroel
Q:
To participate in voting for a memsheles
Yisrael lifnei bi’as haMoshiach, a Jewish government in
Eretz Yisroel before Moshiach comes, is that against the Torah?
A:
My friend, I am not somebody to pasken such shaylos. Some gedolim hold that
even though it’s forbidden to have a Jewish Commonwealth, a Jewish government,
before Moshiach comes, nevertheless once there is a kehillah, even a kehillah
of reshaim, we have to try to get along with them and try to utilize them in
order that we should build up Torah. That's how some gedolim say. You can't
just say that it's nothing and we ignore them and we'll kiss Arafat and be his
good friend. No. We want to build up Torah in Eretz Yisroel as much as we can.
There are a lot of tzaddikim in Eretz Yisroel, beautiful kehillos, so you do
the best you can; you try to get along with these reshaim for the sake of the
frummeh. That's what some say. I'm not saying that you have to love them or
give them too much respect but when it comes to voting some say you should vote
in order to get the best benefits.
Others say no; they say you don't vote. You don’t vote at all in
order to show that you don’t support the government.
I'm not mixing in such a question. I'll leave it for the
manhigei Yisroel. But it's not a simple question. It's a complicated question and
I'm not trying to persuade anybody to do anything one way or another.
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