Rabbi Berl Lazar at the Kinus HaShluchim

Photo: V. Kochetkov, Moscow News.

I listened to Rabbi Berl Lazar speech two times. It is a motivational speech. I don�t see how I can hold it against him that the speech was mostly positive, this is what a motivational speech supposed to be. The speech was obviously written by a professional ghost writer, it had a nice flow and balance. It was properly structured and most importantly it was a very sincere speech.

Berl Lazar and Kaminetzky and others went to Russia not expecting the material spoils. The spoils that came their way are only as he said �kelim detikun�. Please spare us listening about Putin�s gefilte fish though. Yet, I don�t even feel like clabbering Lazar for being a court Jew or Oligarch�s pass�. He is trying to do the best under the circumstances. Rabbi Lazar�s heart is in the right place when he offers recognition to the unsung Shaliyah �kol dmimo dako�.

But it is very telling that there was one phrase that Lazar used three or four times - "umil'u es-hooretz vchivshuho" - �fill and concur the land�. This is what Gandalin describes as �fascism-communism-nationalsozialismus� philosophy. I bet you he really sees Shluchim as a concurring army. We did speak about the origins of this thinking in the il Duce of Marina Roscha. This approach already reared it�s head in my past interview:

�Lazar�s general strategy is a complete monopoly and a methodical centralized control. This is his "glavny politichesky vector" (main political vector).�

Rabbi Berl Lazar also used the phrase �Toirah uMizvos Galore�, so on to the reality check:

1. The best of Russian Jewry is no longer in the CCCP.
2. Assimilation continues unabated and accelerates every year. There is no evidence that the army of Shluchim in Russia or elsewhere in the world played a statistically significant role in preventing this.
3. (CENSORED).
4. While Lazar army is populating deserted villages and takes possession of the vacant properties, the massive, top quality Jewish Russian community in America is forsaken with Jewish education out of reach for most.
5. Lazar�s revolution is being fueled by the power of Oligarchs who divided the spoils of the looted country. Spoils that were created by the work of generations of the enslaved people amongst whom Jews played the traditionally prominent role. The �Kelim deTikun �are but the reparations on behalf of the millions of the tortured slaves. And where that leaves �Oros deTochu�?
Pass the gefilte fish please, President Putin...