Below is a letter from the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of America.
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A letter from the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah to Acheinu Bnei Yisroel:
We are fortunate to live in a medina shel chesed, a country that Boruch Hashem accords us many rights, including the right to live as Torah Jews in our communities. Among our most fundamental rights is the ability to vote for our government officials. Voting is a form of hishtadlus that is incumbent upon all of us, just as we recognize that everything is ultimately b’yad Hashem. Voting is also an expression of hakaras hatov, where we express our gratitude to this benevolent country in which we reside.
Forty years ago, Maran HaGaon Rav Moshe Feinstein zt’l wrote in an open letter to Klal Yisroel that “it is incumbent upon each Jewish citizen to participate in the democratic process which guards the freedoms we enjoy.”
Those words certainly hold true today.
As election season is soon upon us, we implore every eligible voter to make sure that they are registered to vote, and then go out and vote on Election Day. This is especially urgent in this year’s Mayoral election in New York City, where the upcoming election is of critical importance to hundreds of thousands of Jews who reside in the city, and may have ramifications throughout the United States and even across the globe. The stakes are extremely high.
May Hashem guard us and save us from all crises and evil decrees, so that we will merit, soon in our days, the arrival of the ultimate redeemer, and the fulfillment through us of “And all the nations of the land will see that upon you the name of Hashem is called.”
With a brachah for a k’siva v’chasima tova to all,
The Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of America