CRAZY!!!! >>>Rav Sholom Ber Sorotzkin Redeems Old Telz Yeshiva Building 82 Years After Holocaust Annihilation

 

DIN: Someone please tell me that this was all a bad dream, please!

How sick and perverted is this? Who paid for this craziness? 

I hear Yeshivishe guys tell me all the time "you know Hashem wants us in galus, He spit us out of Israel"

Well didn't the very same Hashem spit you out of Telz? 

Most of the talmiddim from Telz were murdered by their neighbors, The grounds of Telz is soaked in Jewish blood. Telz is NOT holy, Telz is a city steeped in Tumah. I'm waiting for Putin to raze the entire city and make it into a parking lot!

This Sorotzkin character compares this site to Har Sinai, and "people should take their shoes off when entering the building" well I have news to Sorotzkin, Har Sinai has absolutely no kedusha attached to it. None whatsoever! What a whack job this guy is!

In a moving ceremony which took place at the old historic building of the Telz yeshiva in Telz, Lithuania, Rabbi Sholom Ber Sorotzkin, the head of the Ateres Shlomo yeshiva and grandson of the Telz rosh yeshivas, redeemed the building 82 years after its students had left, most of whom were later murdered in the Holocaust.

The yeshiva, which was founded some 160 years ago by Rabbi Eliezer Gordon, was the most famous yeshiva in Lithuania after the closure of Volozhin. Rabbi Yosef Leib Bloch, the son-in-law of Rabbi Gordon, continued to serve as rosh yeshiva after him and his son, Rabbi Avrohom Yitzchak Bloch HyD was murdered in the Holocaust together with his students on 20th Tammuz 5701 (July 15, 1941)

Rabbi Shimon Shkop and Rabbi Chaim Telzer also served as rosh yeshivas at the famous yeshiva, where students included most of the great Lithuanian rabbis prior to the Holocaust- Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman, Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, Rabbi Yechezkel Abramski, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel and many others.

The remnants of the yeshiva, including Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Bloch and Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Katz, as well as Rabbi Baruch Sorotzkin and Rabbi Gifter, reestablished the yeshiva in Cleveland as well as establishing other branches in Chicago and NY.

The Lithuanian authorities returned the yeshiva to Rabbi Sholom Ber, who is a great-grandson of the martyred Rabbi Avrohom Yitzchak Bloch. During the course of the last month Rabbi Sorotzkin together with tens of other grandchildren of the Telz rosh yeshivas worked to reestablish a yeshiva at the original site in order to commemorate those who died nearby with Torah study.

Rabbi Sorotzkin compared the site to Mount Sinai and told those gathered there to “take your shoes off as this is holy ground, the place where Gedolim studied and which merited disseminating Torah to all of the Jewish nation.

“In these four cubits the Gedolim studied, in every place where we step holy and exalted people studied with great devotion to Hashem and sanctified G-d’s name when they were murdered, there are no words to describe the feeling. We merited returning here, I think this is the biggest fulfillment of “Hashem, revenge before our eyes the spilt blood of Your servants.”

The students who entered the yeshiva made the blessing of Matziv G’vul Almana as they brought a Sefer Torah and placed Mezozos on all of the entrances in the building. During the entire visit, study sessions were held at the yeshiva and the rosh yeshiva gave daily shiurim at the site as well as a special shiur on Shabbos.

The unique experience made a strong impression in Lithuania and in other European countries. During the visit, the Lithuanian ministers of tourism and culture as well as other members of parliament and the mayor of Telz and other prominent figures came to visit in honor of the historic occasion. The heads of the national museum in Vilna brought with them priceless manuscripts and notebooks from the heads of the Telz yeshiva, some of which have never been published.