Rabbi Meir Kahane debate with Rabbi Albert Axelrad, Brandeis University, May 1985

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Meir Kahane’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] whatever the compulsion of any jew is it doesn't transcend a jew is commanded to live in israel and what bothers me is this selective kind of quoting a quote from a ramban about birds but not a quote from the ramban about the fact that there is an obligation there is an obligation upon each and every jew to live in the land of israel and obligation from the torah so of course there is an obligation now if you ask me but what about those jews who violate the law and that's what they're doing they are violating the law the state of israel was created by god's hands the state of israel will exist with or without the american jew [Music] but the american jew will not exist but the american jew will not exist without the state of israel there's only one reason for rabbis and teachers to stay in the exile and that is because unfortunately so many jews are here but it's the obligation of that rabbi to educate those jews make them jewish and among the things that he should do in making them jewish in making them jewish is teach them that is their obligation to go up to live in israel and every jewish rabbi and every jewish teacher who stays in the exile should set for himself over herself a limit three years five years and then go because no one can ever teach someone to do something unless he or she does it too the state of israel did not come into being because of harry truman the state of israel came into being

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