Posted on 02/24/2022 5:11:12 PM PST by Zhang Fei
The Jewish community in the historic Ukrainian city of Uman — site of the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, the revered founder of the Breslover Hasidim — is actively providing medical and logistical assistance to Ukraine’s armed forces in the face of the ongoing Russian military invasion.
“We love Ukraine and we will defend it,” Haim Hazin, a representative of the community, told the Ukrainian news outlet Telegraf on Wednesday, as Russian forces attacked targets around the country in earnest.
The community has already provided practical assistance to the Ukrainian armed forces. “At the beginning of hostilities, we handed over 12 bags with Israeli first aid kits to the army,” Hazin said, while partner organizations in Israel “also sent specialists who conducted a tactical medicine course, sharing Israeli technologies on how to stop a wound from bleeding.”
On Wednesday, Hazin announced that the community was donating an ambulance that would be deployed with Ukrainian troops in the Donbass region. “It’s equipped with modern Israeli medical equipment and bags with Israeli medicines,” he said. “We donate all this in full for first aid.”
Hazin added that Jews in Uman, which is located in central Ukraine, were “determined to help in any way we can.”
He continued: “It hurts us, we fear for Ukraine, this is sacred land for us here in Uman, where Rabbi Nachman is buried.”
Uman was once home to a thriving Jewish community that was decimated during the Nazi Holocaust. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, several Orthodox families have moved to the city, mainly concentrated around the Rabbi’s tomb, which attracts thousands of worshipers from Israel, the US and other countries during Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
In Israel, meanwhile, Jewish immigrants from Ukraine expressed support for the country of their birth
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Give some folks some suppressed sniper rifles, train them up and let them loose.
Worked for the Russians against the Germans. Worked for Simo Häyhä.
The weird thing is some of these people are pilgrims from Israel who settled in Ukraine. The Haredim are exempt from military service in Israel, yet are stepping up to defend Ukraine.
More power to them if they have skin in the game. Too bad America doesn’t.
To hareidim, there’s nothing wrong with a non-Jewish government in a non-Jewish land, providing they abide by common sense morality, and such governments are worth defending.
A non-Jewish government made up of apostate Jews in the Promised Land is blasphemy.
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