Rabbi Yaakov Meidan Chokes on Hegel; Spits on Ahuvya Supporters; Proves Erev Rav Bona Fides

…When there is an abundance of Chesed – And No Gevurah

Lest ye think this but another Rabbinic hit piece, please be encouraged to read to the end.

In the morning hours of Dec 29th, 2020 — four days before the Police officially exonerated themselves in the vehicular ramming death of Ahuvya Sandak — and two days prior to the head of the investigation announcing that officers had behaved in strict accordance with police guidelines — Rabbi Yaakov Meidan was already offering his expert Judaic analysis of the event: that the Israel Police was NOT responsible for Ahuvya Sandak’s death.

Period.

“It was an accident,” he pleaded.  “A terrible accident.”  But there was “nothing pre-meditated about it.”

Indeed, there is discrimination on the part of the Israel Police toward the Jews of Yehuda and Shomron, stressed this weak-kneed lover of all that’s anti-Torah in the State of Israel — but that’s hardly a reason to accuse them of malice.

Case Closed?

And then, in the same gaonic fit of yeshivish reasoning, the fair Meidan revealed his true colors.

He said –

Those who want to call this tragedy a murder should be aware that if that’s what they’re saying today, tomorrow, the Europeans and radical left-wing organizations could be using the same term to describe deaths that occur accidentally in the course of IDF operations in Gaza, for instance.

Oh, my…!

Rav Meidan teaches philosophy at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shvut.

And that being the case, it behooves us to examine the above statement with a slightly thicker lens.

Please follow along.

What the fair Meidan’s comment indicates, in fact, is that he really doesn’t care for investigations.

Why?

Because he's worried about ‘the bigger picture’.

That’s what philosophers do, after all.

He’s worried, for instance, about what leftists and Europeans might, hypothetically, say, at some point in the future – for they’re people who deserve our serious attention, people whose criticism might hurt us, or the IDF, G-d forbid.

These are not garden variety, hilltop riff-raff, who never ventured the ethereal worlds of the philosopher-rabbi and who don't truly understand the proper use of the term ‘murder’.

We did mention that Rav Meidan was a philosopher, yes?

You may also be aware, by the way, that this is the same Rav Meidan who attended an interfilth prayer session of rabbis and sheikhs directly after the arson attack in Duma.

Yes, yes, long before those investigations showed overwhelmingly that no Jew took part in the Shabak’s flimsy set-up, the fair Meidan had already decided who was guilty and who was not, because there, too, the more important — one might say, philosophic — aspect of the case, was to show that rabbis could cry alongside sheikhs when Arabs cavalierly kill one another.

Between ourselves, there are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: super-celestial thoughts and subterranean conduct.   

— Montaigne

Do you see a pattern here?

You may not be aware that the fair Meidan has a penchant for issuing philosophic pronouncements of this sort — indeed, he’s made a career of drafting manifestoes, signing ‘covenants’ and collaborating to create grand declarations in the name of world Jewry, too.

No joke.

Manifestoes?

Oh, yes.

Written by himself and later signed by his Monsignior, Rav Lichtenstein, calling “on every person, especially the residents of Judea and Samaria, to… deliver any information which could thwart 'price tag' activities to the councils' security officers.”

To rat out fellow Jews to the authorities, that is.

Said he –

I have no doubt that the security officers will know who to deliver this information to in the army.

The ‘season’, anyone?

And ‘covenants’?

Yes, yes, to be sure!

The fair Meidan drafted the ‘Gavison-Meidan Covenant’, a proposed constitution for the State of Israel that helps build bridges with secular Israelis, while at the same time overturning all laws pertaining to Religious Marriage, Shabbat and Conversion – and completely reformulating the Law of Return!

Now, that’s philosophy.

Declarations?

Oh, yes, we’ve got them too…

Meidan helped formulate the ‘Declaration of Our Common Destiny’, a self-described ‘generation-defining event in modern Judaism’ and ‘roadmap for the Jewish future’ that’s heavy on platitudes and back-slapping, even while it seeks to make common cause with every social deviant and Torah-hating mouth-breather who identifies as a Jew.

No, thank you.

This is, by the way, the same Meidan who stated, regarding the scholarly work, Torat HaMelech, that it should “be burned … from a fear that someone will read the book and do something.”  [Emphasis mine.]

Oh…?

And what, pray tell, might they do?

The fair Meidan does not elaborate.

But he does state that it will inevitably lead the hilltop youth “to spend their lives in jail.” 

It should come as no surprise, then, that this kippa-wearing spokesman for the Erev Rav should run, post-haste, to the defense of the Israel Police directly after Ahuvya’s murder.  (See below for the full, embarrassingly mealy-mouthed, self-ingratiating plea.)

And yet…

It’s not our purpose today to reveal yet another vapid, stooge supporter of the Israeli security establishment.

For that would be shallow.

What we’re taking aim at, rather, is the type of ‘chesed’ that Rav Meidan embodies, the type of ‘chesed’ that Avraham Avinu was sent to witness in Egypt, first-hand – an unbridled ‘chesed’ that ends up transgressing the limits of propriety and results in wanton acts of licentiousness and cruelty.

‘Chesed’ without restraint is the sine qua non of Mitzrayim and the telltale sign of the Erev Rav – those who followed us out of slavery three and a half millennia ago, and who, today, disproportionately occupy leadership roles among the Jewish people.

Avraham was meant to learn to where his own, unbalanced middah of chesed would ultimately lead.

Aizer K’Negdo

On the other hand, the Midrash tells us that as fast as Avraham was gathering souls, Sarah Imeinu was making every effort to discern who among them was worthy and who was not – in order to send the latter away!

Sarah represented gevurah, a foil to Avraham’s overwhelming chesed and a much-needed corrective to his unchecked predilection for hospitality.

The Bilvavi, in many places, writes that without the quality of gevurah, one cannot distinguish between good and evil – as Sarah did, thereby saving her son, Yitzchak, from the evils of Yishmael, and, in so doing, the Jewish nation, too.

The Bilvavi also states that those who insist today on telling you how wonderful and good things are, when they are patently not – these, he says, are the cruelest people, people clearly lacking in gevurah, from whom we must separate.

And so we will.

For, any Jew who consistently shows a preference for those who care nothing for Torah and mitzvoth, who goes out of his way to defend them, who refers to hilltop youth as “the criminal lawlessness undermining the foundation of our existence here… [who] put the entire settlement enterprise [whatever that may be] in danger,” who insists that the “partnership with the IDF will never be violated,” (never?!), and who tearfully embraces Islamic clergymen with a mea culpa Klop in order to virtue-signal his moral superiority…

Such a man has utterly lost his ability to distinguish between good and evil – if he ever even possessed it.

Such a man has also earned our disdain – regardless the title he possesses, the false piety, the self-important proclamations and the high-minded blather.

This is clearly a man with nothing but contempt for all that is pure and good in the world, whose fatuous reasoning and servile philosophy should trigger our gevurah and impel us, like Sarah, to disgorge him from the camp.

May the evil ones receive their due,

Dean Maughvet

I have seen some of the stones thrown at these protests, and some of them could have killed.  Several police officers have already been injured at the protests, some of them in the head.  We’re talking about police officers who might have been patrolling our towns and cities the night before, in the cold and rain; police officers who have families and young children.

 – Yaakov Meidan

There was nothing pre-meditated about those stones, fair Meidan. 

And any head injuries incurred should be considered no more than “a terrible accident.”