Friday, May 10, 2019

Missing pages

Yesterday I quoted Rav Teichtel's derush on the parsha of orlah where he argues that for yishuv ha'aretz we need people who are learners who will work the land.  The same idea appears in Aim HaBanim Smeicha.  

I wanted to double-check what he said before posting it, so since I wasn't home I looked up the derashos on hebrewbooks.org.  Lo and behold, the copy of the derashos posted there is missing that entire section.  

I hate to jump to the conclusion that it was censored out to as avoid the obvious Zionist message.  Anyone who knows Rav Teichtel's work knows he wrote Eim HaBanim Smeicha and was a Zionist.  So why take out that section?

I am waiting for the day when someone publishes an edition of Divrei Yoel with all the anti-Zionist propaganda removed so that those of us who disagree with that hashkafa can just read the torah without wasting time on the other stuff. 

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  1. I sent an email to the guys at Hebrew books.... Hey are generally not anti-zionist they are Chabad

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  3. Does your copy at home have the missing pages? I spoke with the people at Hebrew books they will rectify it they are wonderful and very lshem Shmayim.

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    1. my edition has the missing pages. the problem is not Hebrewbooks. the question is why is there another edition w/o those pages

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  4. מצאתי במשנת שכור מה שכתוב לכאורה יש סתירה! יודע החתם סופר בארץ ישראל אין מחלוקה בין ר׳ ישמעאל ור״ש בן יוחאי פשט בפסוק ואספת דגנך זה בחו״ל אבל בארץ ישראל יש מצוה יושב ארץ ישראל כ״ע מודה שצריך לעבוד זה כמו מצות אתרוג

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    1. https://divreichaim.blogspot.com/2010/04/fruit-trees-of-eretz-yisrael.html

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