Greek mythology has 12 major deities - the Olympians - and on top of that is has primordial deities, Titans and Titanesses, Gigantes, Personified concepts, Chthonic deities, Sea, Sky, Agricultural, Sleep, Charity, and Rustic deities, Muses, Deified mortals, and other assorted deities. You got to hand it to the Greeks, they had a fertile imagination.
Of course, really they are building off of the big world that Hashem created. Since they didn't believe in Him, they operated from their fears and concerns and invented deities and many legends around those. That's how it works with idol worship. A person chooses to wrap his mind, which is formidable in all humans -- it's a gift from Hashem -- around the life that he sees. The result is mythology.
So it goes with Zionism too. The quantity of mythology in Zionism is Greek like. Aliyah salesmen in America manipulate you into moving to Israel or longing to move there via tactics that you come to see as mythology once you get here.
There's so many that I could write a book. Here are a few of the major ones:
1. You have a mitzvah to live in Israel. A good Jew is vulnerable to that because he tries to keep mitzvahs, so comes the aliyah salesman to hijack that good intention. But like any mitzvah, you have to know what is meant by mitzvah. I once heard a rabbi from Shapell's tell a group of baal teshuvah men that moving to Israel was a mitzvah like Shabbos. No different, he said.
Really? Shabbos is built on lavim violation of which one gets stoned. Not all lavim have that repercussion and lavim are different than mitzvahs aseh. To not violate a lav you give all your money, to not fail to do an aseh it's 1/5.
Now these vulnerable BTs might not know the difference and that's what's so diabolical about this 'rabbi' taking advantage of their ignorance by spreading his mythology.
I hear Rabbi Hershel Schachter often say without qualification that everyone agrees there's a mitzvah to live in Israel. He doesn't clarify what kind of mitvah it is for it's not so simple. Rav Moshe Feinstein, the posek hador, tells us that it's an optional mitzvah, meaning you get credit if you do it, but you are not obligated. Big difference.
Zionists like to point to the Ramban as saying it's a regular positive mitzvah, but the Ramban himself didn't move here until the last 2 years of his life, after he was essentially forced out of Spain.
You want to say it was dangerous then? And it's not dangerous now? How can Zionists say that simultaneously everyone has to be in the army because we are surrounded by enemies and everyone has to move here? If the former is true, then it's a sakanah, a danger, just like in the Ramban's time.
You want to say that America is equally dangerous? That's absurd. America is the most formidable military power in history, by far the biggest in the world, and it is protected by two oceans, Canadian tundra, and a third-world country that can't even handle its own gangs.
You want to say that America will collapse into a Nazi regime? I have been hearing that for half a century, but in that half century Jews continue to assume leadership positions in Congress, state legislatures, banks, universities, media. Besides, 70% of the weapons that Israel uses come from America. If America were to collapse into an anti-Semitic regime, Israel would be finished.
In Israel, every week somebody gets killed from terrorism or war, lately several in a week. How often does that happen in America? I remember an incident on a Manhattan bridge 30 years ago. It was so unusual for America that the city named the entrance ramp for the poor kid that was killed.
So we have two mythologies here, one that you are obligated to live in Israel, and two that you are safer here than in America.
The second mythology goes to such ridiculous proportions that many Zionists utter it even more after October 7! They are disconnected from reality.
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