Vayoel Moshe
Written by Satmar Grand Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, zt'l
Translation of Section 110, Vayoel Moshe, published in 1961, (from the middle
of Section 110):
Six million Jews were killed as a result of the Zionists
 Vayoel Moshe
Everyone ignores the fact that it has been these Zionist groups that have
attracted the Jewish people and have violated the Oath against
establishing a Jewish entity before the arrival of the
Messiah. It is because of the Zionists that six million Jews
were killed. The fact is that this is the bitter punishment
stipulated in the Talmud.... (Tractate Ketuboth, p.
111), which results in the payment of a spiritual and physical
debt from the Jewish People. Afflictions and tribulations only
appear in this world because of the wicked, and the punishment
is meted out first upon the righteous. However the Zionists
have committed horrible actions; that they have always
slandered and spoken libelously against the Jewish People to
other nations, and have even inciting non-Jewish leaders
against the Jewish People to convince them to expel Jews from
their countries. The Zionists believed that this strategy
would make it easier to take over the Holy Land and establish
their State there.
We see from letters written by great rabbis in the early days of Zionism
how great was their deathly fear of the consequences of the
slander and libel of the Zionists; unfortunately their fears
were realized.
In addition to this, facts have come to light regarding the extent of the
cruelties committed by Zionist organizations that resulted in
the whole dreadful catastrophe. Some of these activities that
took place in Hungary came to light as well in court cases
that later occurred in the Holy Land. The Zionists undertook a
number of explicit actions that they believed would assist
them in meeting their objectives in the creation a state. It
is not, however, my intention to discuss this subject at
length in this book because I am writing it solely for the
purpose of clarifying Jewish law as it pertains to the
establishment of a state. However, I mention these events to
point out the fact that it is only this abominable idea of
establishing a state that has caused all the hardships,
sufferings and misfortunes that have befallen us, aside from
the fact of countless Jews who have died because of the
Zionist wars that are forbidden by Jewish law.
The actions
committed by the Zionists provoked hatred and persecution
against Jews living in Arab Lands
The majority of Jews from Arab countries who have come to the Zionist
state had resided in peace and tranquility, lacking nothing,
until the establishment of the heretical regime, that is, the
Zionist state, which has been the original cause of hatred and
persecution in their native countries. The Zionists themselves
made this all possible with various tricks and ruses in order
to increase the persecution so that the Jews living in Arab
lands would have to move to the Holy Land utterly penniless.
Then the Zionists bragged about this that they were the
“saviors” of these Jews although it had been the Zionists
themselves who were the initial cause of all this upheaval.
Section 111
On the contrary,
the Zionists worked to make sure that the doors of many
nations were closed to Jewish refugees
The Zionists
constantly boast that the only place of refuge on earth for
Jews is their state. However, anyone with a brain in his head
can see that it has been because of the Zionists that the
doors of other countries were shut to the Jews. This is
because the Zionists always exert every effort to prevent Jews
from going anywhere else other than to their own state. Any
person who takes even the slightest action of offering Jews
the possibility of finding refuge in any other country to
fulfill the statement of our Sages in the Talmud (Tractate
Pesachim, p. 87) that “G-d did an act of charity to
disperse the Jews among the nations” faces savage attacks
of all kinds from the Zionists, who hurl all types of insults,
slander and curses, claiming that such a person is a
self-hating Jew who hates the Holy Land.
Moreover, Zionist officials and ministers fan out all over the
world, attending banquets with world officials to convince
them to refuse to allow their nation to serve as lands
of refuge for Jews, and on the contrary, implore them to
coercively redirect these Jews to the Zionist state in
violation of the Oath prohibiting mass immigration to the Holy
Land as explained by the Talmudic sages. The Zionists coerce
most of those Jews who have arrived in the Zionist State into
heresy and apostasy, and the children of these Jews are
defiled in dreadful ways. These “immigrants” continue to
suffer poverty and enormous destitution. All the Zionists care
about is that they should have a strong state with a huge pool
of available soldiers for their army and other coercive
organizations and activities.
These
Zionist evildoers used their G-d-given free will to choose
evil, arrogance and heresy, and have been the cause of all the
suffering and tribulations to the Jewish People to assure that
Jews find no peace and respite in any country, and work to
assure that the doors of the nations are shut. Furthermore,
nations can claim that they do not have to offer refuge to
Jews because the Jews now have their own state where they can
seek refuge. The Zionists, who are viewed by the nations as
the leaders of the Jewish People, demand that Jews not go
anywhere other than to their state.
However,
it is obvious that were it not for the Zionist state, the
biblical promise to our Patriarch Jacob that his descendants
would always find refuge and solace would be fulfilled. The
Zionists declare that only they are the “saviors” of the
Jewish People; just two years ago they boast that they were
“rescuing” refugees from Egypt, despite the fact that it was
the Zionists themselves who caused all the suffering and
expulsions, as is the case in all their activities. Just
recently it was publicly that the Zionists demanded that a
number of nations accept no Jewish refugees.
If not for the
Zionists the British government would have kept the doors of
their country open, and a large number of Jews would have been
saved
While the British
government still controlled the Holy Land, the Zionists, who
the British saw were seeking to establish their state, were
the direct reason why they chose to close their doors to
prevent a large influx of Jews. Anyone who remembers who these
events unfolded knows for a fact that were it not for the
Zionists with their heretical ideas of establishing a state,
the doors of the Holy Land itself would have remained open to
Jewish refugees, and many Jews would have been saved. During
Islamic (Turkish) rule in the Holy Land, the reason that the
gates of the Land were closed because of the Turks feared
Zionist immigration.
The Zionists were authorized by the British to distribute
annual immigration permits, and sought to offer such permits
only to those Jews who were Zionists and supported the path of
Zionism, heresy and atheism. Anyone wishing to travel to the
Holy Land has to flatter the Zionists and their ways.
Scripture warns us with regard to heresy (Mishley, 5:8):
Stay away from its doorway, and it all the more dangerous
for anyone who has to agree to their “doorways” and follow
their teachings, as has been the cause that tens of thousands
of pure Jewish souls were to die, and many were the fatalities
of those ensnared to this heresy under the guise of love for
the Holy Land. This is why many G-d fearing Jews have been
reluctant to travel to the Holy Land. Anyone fearing G-d fears
the danger of heresy more than any other danger in the world.
This is all merely the tip of the iceberg concerning the
tribulations and suffering that has befallen the Jewish People
because of them.
Why the Zionists
resemble an arsonist who sets a fire and then scrambles to
assist the victims, who imagine the arsonist to be the savior
In my later years I heard an important rabbi offer a fitting
parable about the Zionists: Once there was an evil and cruel
man who was vengeful and constantly on alert. He wanted to
take revenge against his friend, and burn all his and wealth
and possessions. So he hired a second wicked person who was
expert in these sorts operations to do his task in a way that
the victim would not even notice that it was he who had
committed this act. Since the hired criminal knew that the
would-be victim often welcomed guests into his home, he went
to the victim’s home in the evening disguised as a guest and
asked for a place to spend the night. The unwitting victim
welcomed him in immediately and gave him a room for the night.
In the middle of the night the wicked man observed that the
householder and his family members were all asleep and that
they would not notice anything. He silently set about to start
a fire in a hidden area and then quickly returned to his room
and pretended to be asleep.
The flames soon became noticeable and awakened the entire
household in great panic; everyone soon realized that
everything was on fire, but due to their confusion, panic and
sorrow, the members of the family could not properly decide
how to save their property. In order to avoid suspicion the
wicked guest, who had caused the fire, pretended to wake up in
great panic and rushed to the aid of the householder, who
noticed that the guest was able to calmly do a good job to
save more furniture and household objects than the householder
himself.
The following morning, when the householder went to the
synagogue with a heavy and bitter spirit, he told his friends
what had happened in the terrible calamity that befallen him.
He explained that he was now left impoverished and destitute,
and that he had no idea where to look for a new home and
livelihood. While telling the story he mentioned the
importance of the commandment of welcoming guests, because of
which he had invited a guest to his home to whom he was
grateful for having helped save what little could be rescued
from the fire in his home. The victim of the arsonist was
asked by his friends to identify the guest. He described him,
and they immediately recognized him as the very cruel and
wicked man who was renown for these sorts of deeds.
His friends mocked him and told him to watch himself because were it not
for that “guest,” there would have been no fire at all, for
the “guest” was actually an arsonist who had set fire to the
house, and was no “savior” at all. They added that the
householder should never again allow that evildoer to cross
his threshold, for if he ever again has anything to do with
that evildoer, his tricks will be even worse, and could result
in the death of the householder altogether, G-d forbid.
The lesson of this parable is obvious – through their sins and
their deeds the Zionists are the cause of all troubles and
sufferings, yet they always come around to brag that they are
the “saviors” when they are actually the arsonists! Those that
do not wish to seek the truth fall for the ruse and think that
they are saviors. Satan blinds their eyes so that they end up
in heresy and atheism, G-d forbid. By analyzing all the
activities of the Zionists one can easily discover that their
acts are utter destruction and no salvation. It would require
a book specifically dedicated to this subject to deal with
this subject, but I already wrote that in this book I do not
wish to get into these issues, but simply wanted to shed light
on these matters. G-d will guide those that seek the
truth, but this is the hardest and last challenge that has
faced the Jewish People until now. The tribulations prior to
the arrival of the Messiah have already been described in the
Talmud by Rabbi Yochanan, who said that cannot tolerate any
more suffering and that we now we need the mercy of G-d to
strengthen our true faith in G-d, his holy Torah and in his
servants who have served him with all their hearts and souls
in the generations before us.
|