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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (95057)	1/28/2005 10:38:35 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 108807

NOTHING LIKE A RATIONAL RABBI IN ISRAEL....................... Rabbi: Disengagement caused Tsunami By MATI WAGNER Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, former chief rabbi of Israel and leading halachic authority in the religious Zionist camp said this week that the tsunami that wracked South East Asia was retribution for supporting the disengagement plan. In the latest edition of "Mayanei Hayeshua", a weekly Torah pamphlet distributed to thousands of synagogues throughout the country, Eliyahu was asked how we are to understand the tsunami. Eliyahu answered, "The [Babylonian] Talmud [the tractate of Berachot] says that when God is angry at the nations of the world for not aiding Israel - they want to evacuate, to disengage, to interfere in our affairs, He claps his hands, causing an earthquake." Some 280,000 died in the natural disaster according to the most recent death toll. Eliyahu also expressed his support for those soldiers who decided to "hand over their guns to an officer and join settlers" against disengagement. Rabbi Yehudah Gilad of the Religious Kibbutz Movement said Eliyahu's comment was "terrible and incomprehensible". Gilad, who helped organize a meeting Wednesday of rabbis and religious army officer who oppose disobeying evacuation orders, added "I'm am not worthy of contradicting Rabbi Eliyahu. I'd like to think that he was misunderstood." Gilad said that rabbis who anathematize disengagement leave no choice for their students but refusal. "When disengagement is described in such monstrous terms the logical conclusion is unbridled opposition, which will inevitably lead to complete anarchy. "We are racing toward the abyss - when we reach the brink it will be too late to pullback. "It already happened once," said Gilad, referring to the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. "We must try to stop before it's too lat