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that Torah is a refuge of the
scoundrel, exploited by self-serving
elites for narrow political purposes.
If the Barak government passes into
law the permanent exemption that it
has promised, cynicism will grow and .
Jewish religious tradition will be further
discredited in the eyes of Israel's popu-
lace. All those who see Torah as the
foundation of Jewish life can only be
saddened by such developments.
We hope that Prime Minister
Barak's peace initiative will bear fruit
and produce. the secure. peace for
which we all pray. We hope, too, that
once peace is achieved, Barak will
return to his original demand that
religious and secular Jews share equal-
ly in the burdens of Israeli citizenship.
Only in this way will peace among
states lead to peace among Jews; only
in this way will Torah some day
become the precious possession of all
the residents of Zion. D.
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RABBI SHAFRAN
for maintaining the security of Jews, it
has been the Jewish conviction for
millennia that the true safety of the
Jewish people derives, in the end,
from dedication to the values, laws
and study of the Torah.
Thus, when viewed through the
lens of classical Jewish thought, hared-
im are very much part of Israel's secu-
rity apparatus, no less essential than
the computer experts calculating the
trajectories of missiles, the intelligence
analysts or the generals planning
troop movements..
Secularists may, ipso facto, reject
the notion of Torah possessing the
power to protect Jews. But that such a
deeply and undeniably Jewish attitude
is perceived as outlandish to so many
non-secularist American Jews is noth-
ing short of tragic. An assortment of
religiously liberal American Jewish
leaders has called of late for a new
appreciation and embrace of Jewish
texts and tradition. Jews' priority
should be, in the widely reported
words of one, "Torah, Torah, Torah!"
But declarations of dedication to
Torah are meaningless and hollow if
they allow for the disparagement of
Jews who dedicate their entire lives,
without regard to material comfort, to
the practice and study of Torah. We
need only recall what Jews the world
over only recently read in the weekly
Torah portion: it is not "my strength
and the might of my arm" that has
wrought me this victory but rather
"the Lord, VOW' God, who gives you the
strength." (Deuteronomy 8, 17- 1 8).
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