Comments on: Operation “Prayer Shield” for Israel http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/05/24/operation-prayer-shield-for-israel/ A Journal of Jewish Thought and Opinion Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:56:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Nachum Lamm http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/05/24/operation-prayer-shield-for-israel/#comment-57100 Nachum Lamm Mon, 29 May 2006 02:45:06 +0000 http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/05/24/operation-prayer-shield-for-israel/#comment-57100 Ahron: Because it's none of their business? Because nothing they say could change anything, and likely hurt any good they might do elsewhere? Ahron: Because it’s none of their business? Because nothing they say could change anything, and likely hurt any good they might do elsewhere?

]]> By: Bob Miller http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/05/24/operation-prayer-shield-for-israel/#comment-56988 Bob Miller Thu, 25 May 2006 11:59:00 +0000 http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/05/24/operation-prayer-shield-for-israel/#comment-56988 On this topic, see: http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/2006/05/an_open_letter_.html On this topic, see:
http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/2006/05/an_open_letter_.html

]]> By: Reuven Ungar http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/05/24/operation-prayer-shield-for-israel/#comment-56979 Reuven Ungar Thu, 25 May 2006 09:27:05 +0000 http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/05/24/operation-prayer-shield-for-israel/#comment-56979 I think that Mr. Freund is correct. Although we are required to engage in hishtadlut, ultimately we place our trust in Him. I think that Mr. Freund is correct. Although we are required to engage in hishtadlut, ultimately we place our trust in Him.

]]> By: Ahron http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/05/24/operation-prayer-shield-for-israel/#comment-56964 Ahron Thu, 25 May 2006 03:02:33 +0000 http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/05/24/operation-prayer-shield-for-israel/#comment-56964 <i>For a country with its back up against the wall, buffeted by danger and beset with hostility, the need to reach upward and outward beyond ourselves has never been more acute.</i> Indeed. And yet despite the increasing danger that Israelis are in as a result of the Gaza withdrawal and despite the Israeli Government's near-abuse of the Gaza evacuees, it appears that no Orthodox Jewish group is willing to speak against the Israeli government's current policy. Prayer is welcome and necessary (the people taking part in this intiative are to be commended). But taking a stand here on Earth is also necessary. One would have thought that the destruction of the Gaza synagogues--places of prayer of the type that Prayer Shield is sponsoring--would have been a sufficient foothold to allow the OU or the Agudah to speak out. Yet it wasn't. Why? For a country with its back up against the wall, buffeted by danger and beset with hostility, the need to reach upward and outward beyond ourselves has never been more acute.

Indeed. And yet despite the increasing danger that Israelis are in as a result of the Gaza withdrawal and despite the Israeli Government’s near-abuse of the Gaza evacuees, it appears that no Orthodox Jewish group is willing to speak against the Israeli government’s current policy.

Prayer is welcome and necessary (the people taking part in this intiative are to be commended). But taking a stand here on Earth is also necessary. One would have thought that the destruction of the Gaza synagogues–places of prayer of the type that Prayer Shield is sponsoring–would have been a sufficient foothold to allow the OU or the Agudah to speak out. Yet it wasn’t. Why?

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