Are Today’s Rabbinical Leaders… June 7, 2007

…the erev rav, the “mixed multitude” who left Egypt and were responsible for the Golden Calf — the worst national show of idolatry in the history of the nation of Israel?

Is this a true statement?

“Before the coming of the Mashiach most of the Rabbanim will be from the Erev Rav etc. Because Israel in themselves are holy, but the Erev Rav work only for their own benefit as we can clearly see that the Rabbanim and the Chassidim and many regular Jews of the generation are, due to our many sins, mostly from the Erev Rav and want to rule over the public, and all their actions are only for their own sake, to acquire honor and money, and one should therefore only join with those who truly serve, who sacrifice themselves to Hashem not in order to receive any benefit”.

The organization Mishpat Tzedek seems to think so.And their site, while not wholly on the same page with me (for instance, his views on family court and feminism are drastically different than mine), definitely has a revolutionary spirit worth checking into. The site contains stingingly critical PDFs which decry much of the goings-on today’s generation of Orthodox Jews.

At a minimum, Mishpat Tzedek and I have three things in common.

We’re both fed up. We both love Hashem and His Torah (as codified through halacha/Jewish Law, the practical manifestation of His Will), and we both know that, if the long-awaited Redemption is to come now, we’re going to need to get it together.