Three Oaths

Or you can get people to accept this hideous Satmar idea that not only doesn't the military do any good, but the military, Israel having a military, is the cause of all of our problems because we should be somich just on HaKadosh Baruch Hu without doing any heshtablus.

because any kind of Ishtadlus is Aser, because that goes somehow against the Shalosh Shavuos, and it's a rejection, as the Sant M'Rav wrote in Al Agul of Al Atmura, the reason why the Rambam doesn't bring the Shalosh Shavuos, the famous three oaths that prevented us from retaking Eretz Yisrael by force, the reason why the Rambam doesn't quote it is because the Rambam writes about Moshiach, and everybody understands if you believe in Moshiach, then you completely preclude human agency from doing anything that only Moshiach can accomplish.

This pacifism that you're talking about leads to all kinds of conclusions, some active and some passive.

about questions we don't ask, and therefore, facile solutions and alternatives that are untrue.

So it's a very unclear passage.

So that's called the three oaths before the Second World War when the Zionist movement began in the late 1800s and it was picking up.

So the Hungarians, Hungarian Rabbanim, were opposed to the Zionist movement because of the Sholosh Vos.

One of the three oaths that the Gemara of the Jewish people took is that we won't pressure the Yom HaSolom to give us back Eretz Yisrael.

We shouldn't pressure the Yom HaSolom.

So that's the question.