This advice seems like common sense to me.
FailedMessiah reports: Chief Rabbi of Kfar Chabad Meir Ashkenazi has released a public letter calling on residents, who are almost all Chabad hasidim, to stop employing Arab construction workers until the current security crisis ends. If that is impossible to do, hasidim must hire an armed security guard to watch the Arabs to make sure none of them attack Jews, Ashkenazi ruled.
According a report in Yeshiva World, Ashkenazi also ruled that every able-bodied man should join the community’s security patrol and asked the entire community to recite Psalms 20, 22, 69, and 130 daily after morning prayers.
Kindergarten and heder (grammar school) children should, as usual, recite the 12 pesukim (bible verses chosen by Chabad’s late rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson three decades ago for children to recite) but should add an additional verse, ‘מפי עוללים וגו” (“mi-pi ollalim…,” “out of the mouths of little children…”).
Kfar Chabad is located not far from Ben-Gurion International Airport, which is itself located not far from Tel Aviv. It was the site of a major terror attack which took place on April 11, 1956. Fedayeen terrorists barged into the main synagogue during evening prayers and began shooting indiscriminately. Five children and one teacher were killed. Ten others were wounded.
* Instead, hire the hard working, experienced, and capable people from kfar habad, or any nearby yeshiva.
* Well do you blame him?
Okay, fine, I know YOU do but would any reasonable person blame him?
Besides, if “the Gedolim” knew what was actually going on outside their front doors they’d see this as a tremendous opportunity.
* Many settlements have stopped hiring or permitting Arab workers to come in to the settlement to work due to the current situation.
A perfectly reasonable request.
* I agree with him – on this occasion.
I would probably let the arab workers continue as they would br far better workers than some yeshiva loser but I would also have an armed guard watching over them. Plus I would tell the arab its not personal but my families safety is paramount.
It would be a win-win situation. He gets to feed him family, my work gets done and our family were safe.
