Yitzchak Ginsburgh

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Yitzchak Ginsburgh (2005)

Yitzchak Ginsburgh (* 1944 in St. Louis , Missouri ) is an Israeli Chabad - rabbis , Jewish scholar and author, the more exciting by a large number impetus actions and statements became known, the obviously racist contents are and partly as a call to violence can be viewed. He is the Rosh Yeshiva of Od Yosef Chai and the head of the Gal Einai organization.

Yitzchak Ginsburgh became strictly religious ( Baal Teschuwa ) at the age of 14 , studied mathematics and philosophy in Chicago and continued these studies in New York . In 1965 he immigrated to Israel and shortly afterwards decided to dedicate himself exclusively to the Torah from then on. He became a sought-after Talmud teacher, Kabbalist , head of school, and prolific writer.

Some of his controversial statements include:

  • He publicly announced that it was permissible to kill a gentile in order to use his organs to save the life of a Jew. The biblical prohibition of killing applies only to Jews.
  • Publicly and in a book, he praised Baruch Goldstein's mass murder of praying Arabs in Hebron in 1994 and called him a martyr. The book (Jerusalem 1998) has the deliberately ambiguous title Baruch ha-gewer ( Baruch, the man or praised be Baruch ).
  • In another book ( zaw ha-scha'atipul shoresch , translated as "Tagesbefehl Radikaltherapie", Jerusalem 2001) he writes that the West Bank must be cleansed of non-Jews because it belongs exclusively to Jews, and in it describes all Arabs as a primitive nation belonging (this earned him a charge in a Jerusalem court of racist incitement).
  • Non-Jews, especially Arabs, are not allowed to live in Israel.
  • He calls for the rebuilding of the third temple .
  • Jews should be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Motti Inbari: Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount. SUNY Press, 2009, ISBN 9781438426242 , p. 147. Restricted preview in Google Book Search
  2. ^ Robert Pope 'Acts of Holy Terror? Fundamentalisms Revisited ', in Robert Pope (Editor), Honoring the Past and Shaping the Future: Religious and Biblical Studies in Wales: Essays in Honor of Gareth Lloyd Jones, Gracewing, Leominster, 2003 pp. 213-30, pp. 224-5.
  3. ↑ Motti Inbari, Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount: Who Will Build the Third Temple? (State University of New York Press, 2009), 132.
  4. ↑ Article in the haaretz (engl.)
  5. ^ Gideon Aran, Jewish Zionist Fundamentalism: The Bloc of the Faithful in Israel (Gush Emunin) In: ME Marty, R. Scott Appleby (editor): Fundamentalisms Observed Chicago University Press, 1994, pp. 336-7, n. 27.
personal data
SURNAME Ginsburgh, Yitzchak
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli Rabbi of the Lubavitch
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri