Rav Avigdor Miller on the Founding Fathers and the Jews

Q:

I just wanted to know, if all the goyim hate us then why do we see sometimes in history the goyim save Jews?

A:

Let me tell you. אין למדין מן הכללות אפילו במקום שנאמר בו חוץ. (We cannot assume there are no exceptions to a rule, even when it already specifies the exception - Eruvin 27a). Sometimes there are exceptions. Sometimes there are exceptions, yes. When we say ‘all’ it doesn't mean every single one. There are exceptions.

I want to make an announcement right here. I think that the people who founded this country, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were not Jew haters. They didn't love Jews, no. They didn't love Jews. No. But they were not Jew haters. They had a principle — Hakadosh Baruch Hu put a ruach in them, a spirit to found a nation with equal rights for everybody. It wasn't their own idea. Hakadosh Baruch Hu is in charge. פלגי מים לב מלכים ביד ה׳ – Even kings' minds are influenced by Hashem. I have a feeling that the founders of this country were influenced by Hakadosh Baruch Hu to be equal and fair and that's why I don't think they had prejudices especially against the Jews. Never does it mention anything from them that was against the Jews. Only the people in general — the Christians in general — can't help themselves because their religion is full of hatred against the Jews. Everywhere you look in the New Testament they speak against the Jews.

And therefore I have a certain respect for the founders of the Constitution. Maybe I'm wrong but I have a feeling that they didn't have any kind of animosity against the Jewish people. They wouldn't go all out and embrace the Jew and kiss him and so on, and say achinu atah, but still they gave a Jew a full chance, a fair chance. That's what I think.

And it wasn't only due to them. Hakadosh Baruch Hu was in charge of that. He was the One who made America. Why did He make America? So we should be here today, to have a place of refuge.

You know, when Spain expelled the Jews, Galus Spania, at the same time, Columbus discovered America. The same time. It was the yad Hashem. The same king and queen that made the gezeirah to expel the Jews from Spain, they're the ones who furnished the expedition of Columbus to discover America. You see the connection? America was discovered as a haven for the Am Yisroel. Hakadosh Baruch Hu is in charge.

(March 16, 2000)

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