The mention of the term "income guarantee for the Abrahim" creates an instinctive stimulus to talk about discrimination, hypocrisy, about where and where, about hatred, and more. Perhaps I will do so again on other occasions. Now I would like to talk about something completely different: about us – and about them. About confidence in Hashem, and about "not being cast out from Him, we are cast out." About the yoke of kingdom and the yoke of the land, and about what gives this kingdom the strength to continue on.
The following are not directed at the workers on the public level, but rather at the personal level, to each and every one of them, to each and every one. Sometimes, from too much media consumption that talks about the 'fate of the Abrechim' without those measly pennies that the Fritz (also known as the "State of Israel") throws at them, even those Abrechim are convinced. From too much talk about how hungry they would be without those budgets, they too are already certain: the one who provides for them is the state!
I opened the calendar and looked at it. The Hebrew date for the cancellation of income support for the Abrahim by the Supreme Court is 25th Nissan. This means that there are still more than 5 months left until Rosh Hashanah, whose alimony was already budgeted for on the previous Rosh Hashanah. And that from now on, due to the Supreme Court's decision, it will be difficult for the Holy One, blessed be He, to provide for someone's livelihood, and his alimony will suddenly be cut? If he is sentenced, perhaps he will even live more profitably than he did before, and if he is sentenced to continue living at the same standard of living - then many messengers are sent to him! And many Haredi families in Israel already know one such messenger, who in recent months have received several loaves of bread each week donated by an anonymous donor. In annual calculations, this amounts to assistance of about 1900 NIS per family, and here is an amount that exceeds income support and came directly from God, blessed be He, through a good messenger, may God bless him. There is no place for this personal feeling of "Alas, I will have nothing to eat.".
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Need another example? The same Gemara that teaches us that "a person's provisions are fixed," also mentions that there is an exception: expenses for Shabbat and holy days, and sending their sons to Talmud Torah. Anyone who does a simple calculation will see that, naturally, families of Avreichs would not be able to afford the tuition fees paid today, both for rabbis and Torah scholars and for yeshivas, small and large. Hundreds of shekels each month, when most families have several sons at once. And yet, thousands of families pay these amounts. Without that explanation, that sending our sons to Talmud Torah is an "exceptional item" in each person's annual budget, which God, the Blessed and Exalted, provides separately - it would be impossible to understand this! And since we see the conclusion of the Gemara being fulfilled every day, why should we worry about the Risha?
Likewise, if someone were destined to live in poverty, this would happen with or without income security. It is true that a debt is rolled over by a debtor, but please leave these accounts alone. If you are destined to lose money, it is better for it to be this way than through painful hardships.
It might also be worth mentioning that "just as a person's food is allotted to him from the beginning of the year, so a person's shortcomings are allotted to him from the beginning of the year." If he is deserving, he will spend them on charity, "Is not your bread spread for the hungry?" and if he is deserving, "And the poor and downtrodden will bring a house," and perhaps that is what is happening here. It is time to stop treating the State of Israel as the one that gives our money and food, but rather to raise our eyes to the sky and remember where the money really comes from, who gives and who takes.
Your rights are running out: stop fighting.
But there is another point: “In order not to be rejected from Him, we are rejected." The story of the Chazon Ish, who believed that the entire existence of this state is "like a dream that flies away." The fragments of the dream are already becoming clear today in many ways, but it is possible that what allows this dream to exist is the fact that God, the Holy One, has also granted the rejected of Israel the right to study Torah, by supporting the Avreich, of which income security is part of this support.
These rights, it seems obvious, are being exhausted, dear secularists.
The sad time has come when those far from Torah no longer have the right to receive a share in the Torah of those who labor over it. In the past, the great men of Israel fought for the Jewish character of the state, for "the Jew on Jaffa Street," as the Rabbi Elyashiv, zt"l, put it. It seems that the time has come to stop fighting. Whoever wants the rights of the Torah will have to collect them directly, whether as a scholar or as a supporter, but not indirectly. It is time to gather within ourselves, to unite within ourselves. The power of the Torah will sustain us without the state, and perhaps more than that – perhaps the fact that we will not have a share of those funds will benefit us more.
Maybe, food for thought, maybe the stammerer was right.
