Not Kedai for most people--Moving to the secular state of israel (SSOI)

I was thinking of continuing writing some additional aspects and thoughts which I mentioned or heard at a Gimmel Tammuz farbrengen.  However, someone related to me the following story he personally heard twenty-eight years ago from Chacham Lasry a nephew of the Baba Sali. It is Chacham Lasry's personal story of an interaction he merited to have with the Frierdiker Rebbe.  So, I decided to post that story and as always, your comments and feedback are greatly appreciated and most welcomed.  In 5556 (1996) my parents took the family to Eretz Yisroel to participate in the bar mitzvah of a close relative. Once we were there , we all went to Chacham Lasry, to receive a few brochos. My mother requested a brocha for another child, and his first reply was, “ Why are you asking me, when you already requested this brocha from a tzaddik who is much greater than me! Yes indeed, my mother had asked our Rebbe some years earlier for this brocha . He continued and said,...

 I don't talk to Orthodox Jews about the conflict with the Arabs anymore because it's like talking to Jews who brag about the aveirahs they commit. Murder of gentiles is a serious sin. You can't just shoot at random because you are annoyed or because somebody from a group did something. Ah, I commit serious aveirahs I don't care. That's what they are saying. That in addition to talking out of ignorance. 

  Actor Bruce Willis started as a page at NBC in New York. One of his jobs was to fill M&M plates for the actors on Saturday Night Live. After he became a megastar, he told actor Bill Murray, you and Gilda were always nice to me. Bill Murray was born on September 21, 1950, in  Evanston, Illinois , to Lucille, a  mail room clerk , and Edward J. Murray, a  lumber salesman . He attended  Loyola Academy , an all-boys  Jesuit  school in  Wilmette, Illinois , a northern suburb of Chicago. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Gilda Radner was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Jewish parents Henrietta (née Dworkin), a legal secretary, and Herman Radner, a businessman. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Raise your kids in the Midwest. It's the best bet for developing good middos.  I heard somebody say the other day, the primary reason not to live in Israel is that the kids become Israelis. Your mitzvah is to live where you can be the best Jew. 

The Brisker Rav said two things are certain, Zionism is idolatry and everyone who lives in Israel stumbles in Zionism. Everyone? Yes, allow an example. There's a gadol in EY who often says that Israel is surrounded by enemies. I like this gadol. He has many good things to say about many topics. However, this is a Zionistic view. How so? In the recent military conflict that Israel started with Iran, Israel was assisted by Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. Help included use of air space, shooting down of drones and missiles, and sharing of information. How are they enemies? Certainly, we can propose the if not for ties with US money, they wouldn't be so friendly. That you can chock that up to Muslim displeasure with the presence of an anti-religious secular society in their midst as well as to Esav soneh Yaakov. I'm not saying that Esav soneh Yaakov doesn't exist, but Zionists exaggerate it and turn it into a religion of its own. What you are supposed to say is that...

Carl Jung said that if people don't have some kind of connection to God, they invent one, they make one out of whatever. And this is Zionism. Jews today lack emunah. They feel nothing. So Zionism becomes their something. And for that they ruin their lives by moving to Israel. 

People always ask that as if it’s so simple to pack up a family and cross the earth when you have sold your home and moved all your belongings to a country in Asia. We are from America, not the UK. It’s much further away and presents obstacles, if only psychological. It’s not as easy for one of us to zip over there and set something up and then fly back again. That would be much easier from the UK. We had nobody to help us set up again, nowhere to stay if we landed. And you need all adults to agree. Sometimes, it takes longer for one of them to come around.  What happens is that you keep trying to make it work until it's too late to leave. You hope that maybe by next year you'll be competent in Hebrew. But it doesn't happen. You hope that next year everybody will make friends. That you'll find the right school. That you'll get a good job. That you'll start to enjoy the Israeli style. That it will start to feel like home. But it doesn't happen. All the attemp...

Seven Israeli Soldiers Killed in APC Blast in Southern Gaza's Khan Yunis The Israeli army released the names of six of the seven soldiers, who were members of a combat engineering team that was working in the Khan Yunis area when an explosive device attached to their armored personnel carrier was detonated Ex-Israel Police Officers, MKs to Police Chief: Stop Strip-searching Anti-government Protesters Two women were arrested Sunday morning in front of their young children during a quiet protest calling for the release of the hostages in Gaza, held outside the Jerusalem home of Economy Minister Nir Barkat. Even though the protest was held in compliance with Home Front Command directives, numbering just five adults and three children, and took place close to a shelter, the police threatened to report the adults to social services because they brought their children.  The two, Renana Keydar and Shoshan Dolgopolsky Geva, were brought to a local police station, and were released after fo...