Parashat Vayetse 5785
The past few weeks have been quite a lot for Am Yisrael, and this week we saw some escalation in that. Arsonists targeted synagogues in Australia, and some Jews from Melbourne have suffered serious injuries while praying in a synagogue that arsonists attacked. This was preceded earlier in the week by a statement from Amnesty accusing the Israeli army of genocide and even explicitly stating they amended the definition of genocide because of the importance of bringing this accusation against the Israeli army for a defensive war in which the army is working to recover captives. It is important to make a clarification that despite the rhetorical description of Israel, which is a representation of the legal right of return for the Indigenous Jewish population of Erets Yisrael, Israel is not halakhically a "Jewish state," and a Jewish state governed according to Torah by the Sanhedrin and Malkhut David will not exist until we merit geula, may it be soon in our time. However, Israe...