The Palestine Liberation Organization: Difference between revisions

In 1976, the PLO was added to the UN Security Council, a move that led to great risk to the security of Israel's residents. The Rebbe, as a result, instructed during a farbrengen on Yud Shevat of that year, that seventy-two rabbonim, corresponding to the seventy-two nations of the world, should stand and rule that the land belongs to Am Yisroel according to the Torah, and no one has permission to take any piece of land from Eretz Yisroel. Indeed during the farbrengen, Rabbi Ephraim Eliezer Hakohen Yalles stood and delivered a speech about the connection of Eretz Yisroel to Am Yisroel, and seventy-one rabbonim joined him by answering "Amen" to his words. Additionally, several other rabbonim spoke, including at the Rebbe's request, Rabbi Zalman Shimon Dvorkin, Rabbi DovBer Rivkin, Rabbi Yisroel Yitzchok Piekarski, and Rabbi Mordechai Mentlik. After counting seventy-two rabbonim, the Rebbe requested that the entire crowd say "L'chaim," as participation in a seudas simcha for the event.