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11.05.2006

ZIONISM / ANTI-----r chaim soloveichik

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I don't know if this was mentioned elsewhere, but weren't the Solevetchiks "Zionists" (for lack of a better term)


No. Rav Chaim Soloveichik (d. 1918) was probably the world's leading anti-Zionist, and that means religious and non-religious Zionism both. His son, Rav Yitzchok Zev Soloveichik, the Brisker Rav (d. 1959), was perhaps the most anti-Zionist of all the Gedolim in the world, equal or close to Satmar. His Yeshiva, and his children’s' and grandchildren’s' Yeshivos to this day refuse to take money from the Zionist government, and Briskers refuse even to vote in the Zionist elections. The Brisker Rav said that the main spiritual "war" in today's generation is against the Zionists (he said that if not for Zionism, the main war of today’s generation would be against Lubavitch).

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