If, for whatever reason, you won’t come out in support of Israel, think of it as the center of the Torah world
Thus approached, a few things occurred to me. First, that it was delightful, of course, to be referred to as “Kevodo” or similar honorifics normally reserved for the Chasam Sofer.
Also, that it was moving to think of someone so cut off from the great current of Jewish life, with such a thirst for Torah.
Third — and this was even before the recent Iranian campaign to recruit Israeli agents — I couldn’t help wondering whether my contact was the genuine article, or whether I was talking to a particularly yeshivish Iranian spymaster.
In any event, my stock of Grade A kabbalists was running low, and I couldn’t help, so the connection dropped. But even before it did, there was one topic that we didn’t touch: Israel.
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