Last week I had the unfortunate opportunity
to read Der Blatt the Satmar Yiddish Newstrash associated with the Aroni
faction.
I must
be a glutton for punishment because I keep reading the hate printed by the Satmar vermin who keep hurling and spewing Loshon Hara on their fellow brothers
and sisters!
But a
letter to the editor caught my attention, because this letter was not written
by the editors of this Nazi newstrash, ..... but by a reader.
I am
posting this letter because the opinion of the writer is a reflection of how
this fanatical barbaric sect thinks of other Holy Jews!
As a
preface to my loose translation of the letter, I have to give you an historical
overview of the genesis of the Daf Yoimi, so that you get a
flavor of the sick mentality of these uncivilized barbarians!
The
idea that Jews throughout the world would finish Shas together by
learning the Daf Yomi, a process that would have a seven year cycle, was
first introduced at the First World Congress of the World Agudath Israel
in Vienna August 15 1923.
The Daf
Yomi proposal was made by Rabbi Meir Shapiro. and it required
that Jews learn the same Daf (page) of Gemarrah no matter where in
the world the Jew resided.
Rabbi
Shapiro in a speech to the delegates said:
"What
a great thing! A Jew travels by boat and takes gemara Berachot under
his arm. He travels for 15 days from Eretz Yisrael to
America, and each day he learns the daf. When he arrives in America, he
enters a beis medrash in New
York and finds Jews learning the very same daf that he studied on
that day, and he gladly joins them. Another Jew leaves the States and travels
to Brazil or Japan, and he first goes to the beis medrash, where he finds
everyone learning the same daf that he himself learned that day.
Could there be greater unity of hearts than this?["
Rabbi
Shapiro's idea was enthusiastically accepted by the 600 delegates, including
Gedoilie Yisroel from Europe and America...
In fact
the Gerrer Rebbe, the Imrei Emes, started learning the first daf publicly on the first day of Rosh Hashana September 11, 1923
So you ask, which frum Jew would not accept such a great
idea...?
Which
Jew would be against a proposal that would unify the entire frum community?
The
Maskilim?
Guess
again!
Oh
..... yes yes yes ..... The Reform ....?
Nope!
Guess again!
The
Zionists?
Nope
... guess again!
What
?????
Who
would be against Jews learning Torah together?
Who?
Who?
Who?
Hey ...
stop sounding like an owl!
....
Give up?
The
answer is .... that the one and only frum leader that was
against
this idea was the Satmar Rebbe, R' Yoel Teitelbaum and
some other little Hungarian Rebbelich influenced by R' Yoel!
There I
said it!
Why was he against such a great innovative idea?
Because
he didn't come up with the idea! That's why!
He
would rather that the entire frum Jewish community be fragmented
then unified, even if the unification is thru Torah because
it wasn't his idea!
His cockamamie answer
was that the World Agudath Israel was a
Zionist Organization ... but that wasn't even true then and is a bald
faced lie!
Because
at that time, in 1923, there wasn't even any mention
of
a sovereign state in the minutes of the entire Congress!
And even if you would say that the Aguda was sympathetic to the Zionists, so should we trash an idea that would have Jews learn and finish shas together?
And who would be learning the Daf????? HMMM?
Frum Jews .... no?
The Satmar Rebbe said on numerous occasions and writes in his book "al ha'gilah" that the Zionists were the cause of the destruction of the 6 million Jews!
Well, I am coming up now with a novel approach....I say that Satmar is the cause of the murder and annihilation of 6 million Jews, because there was an opportunity in 1923 to have all frum Jews unified thru Torah and Reb Yoilish nixed it!
Here now is the letter to the editor:
Loose translation
Heading: Hungaian Jews and the Daf HaYoimi
In honor of "Der Blatt"
In light of the fact that certain honored congregations in [Chassidic and Oberlander] courts like Belz, Visnitz, Square, Pupa and Veen, whose followers are by in large from Hungarian backgrounds..have instituted lately, their own Torah learning groups where they learn, review and are tested, it is worthy to mention again the special attribute of these groups that are following the customs of their Hungarian ancestors, and also some whose ancestors were from Galicia and Russia, that totally ignored the Daf HaYoimi program instituted by the Agudas Yisroel!
B"H that we returned the crown to the old ways ... and we are sitting and learning in the ways of our ancestors and rabbis.
Guys you read that....?
Hey writer.... your ancestors were a bunch of amai ratzim.... you want to go to the ways of "your ancestors?"
4 comments:
I don't think Lubavitch are fans of daf yomi either and possibly for the same reason.
This is a new low even for Der Fartt.
The Agudah were originally against Daf Yomi for silly reasons but when they saw it was going to be matzliach they came charging in all gung ho to take credit & rewrote the history for it, like a bunch of carpetbaggers.
Litvishe gedolim who were never part of or fond of the Agudah were against Daf Yomi but for practical reasons, not because who was or wasn't affiliated with it. Their tayna is that Litvishe bnei Torah can accomplish even more in learning so Daf Yomi in their case is a dumbing down.
Of course it's not to be expected that the Unterlander peasants would have such an intellectual reason to be opposed. Avadda Satmar comes with a silly primitive tribal reason to be opposed.
9:03
True that Lubavitch are not Daf Yoimi fans, but they never opposed it ...just benign neglect! In fact in Landau's Shul on ave L, for years they had a Lubavitcher giving the Daf Yoimi, I also remember going to a daf Yoimi in Miami given by a Lubavitcher...
Also Lubavitch are doing other things like Candle Lighting and the Mitzvah Tanks to unify Jews...
http://forward.com/opinion/323267/why-is-chabad-helping-christian-extremists/
If only Chabad stuck to their mitzva tanks
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