Ami"s Frankfurter Tries Hoodwinking Dayan Brandsdorfer with the Satmar SHIT'a but Brandsdorfer Will have None of That!

In this week's Ami Magazine, FRANK'furter , "der upgerissianr naar' ( bloody fool,) interviews the Yerushalmi Posek Rav Moshe Brandsdorfer. 

The "Frank" must have some "man crush" on R' Brandsdorfer, because this is not the first interview he gave him. 

But what is fascinating is that this interview was supposed to be an interview on the "Perspective of Halacha" vis a vis the Hamas atrocities, but instead, he makes this about the bankrupt Satmar Shit'ah! 

Those who are following my blog, know that Yitzy Frankfurter the editor of Ami thinks he is a Satmar Chusid, and tries to embed the irrelevant Shit'ah into most of his interviews but this one takes the cake. 

Ironically, Ami is officially banned in the Satmar community because it is "Zionistic!" LOL!

I am not certain if the Frank knows that Dayan Brandsdorfer's grandfather was none other than the author of Eim Habanim Semeicha, Harav Yisacher Shlomo Teichtal HY"D who was murdered by a Ukrainian on his way to a work camp, his last words before he died was "Jews run for your lives, it is pikuach nefesh, I will not stop screaming, Run Run to Palestine," His surviving daughter said that someone nearby said "please don't say that, as you will be accused of being a Zionist" and he continued yelling "Run Run for your lives" 

( see גליון קדושת ציון, גליון ע"ה טבת-שבט תשפ"ד)

R' Teichteil's entire sefer is a polemic against those Gedoilim who were against Jews from Europe making Aliya. The Gedoilim of that pre-war era were against Jews making Aliyah because they were  afraid of the Zionist influence, and were against Jews establishing a State before Moshiach comes. Rav Teichtal HY"D in his classic Sefer ,brilliantly takes apart all those arguments against aliyah!

In this interview, Rav Brandsdorfer mentions something scary; the Chareidie thought process vis a vis those murdered on October 7:

"Some people were asking why what happened was such a big deal, in light of the fact that most of the victims' were mechallelei Shabbos, ochlei neveilos utreifos and avoda zarah?"

When I read that line I held my breath as I suddenly became very nauseous, wondering, are there frum Jews actually asking "What is the big deal?" 

Are people the so called "Yirei Shamayim," so farkrumpt to ask why we are "making a big deal " about our brothers and sisters being  raped, tortured and murdered, ?" Is this what our gedoilim are teaching our children? 

I find it ironic that the Yeshivishe oilim constantly quote the Chazon Ish, the Chazon Ish said this, the Chazon Ish said that, Shiur Chazon Ish etc etc.

What about the famous Chazon Ish that there are no Jews "rashaim" today? And he said that in the days of Mapai, when Ben Gurion was the prime minister? 

At any rate, I was relieved when I read what Rav Brandsdorfer said about that sick and perverted question.

" You cannot make your own cheshbonos. You have to look at the Ribbono Shel Olam's cheshbonos, which is why we have halacha"

R' Brandsofer goes on to paskin quoting the Shach and the Chazon Ish that "if a mumar l'hachis is murdered by a non-Jew he has a din of a Yid, and one cannot argue with that psak." 

He adds:

"There's a lot of confusion right now, which is why I remind people that we have a Shulchan Aruch that guides every aspect of our lives. Yes It's true that many of the victims didn't keep Torah and mitzvos . We are maaminim bnei maaminim that everything comes from the Borei Olom . Even when there is a hester within a hester, we still saw the Yad Hashem that those who kept Shabbos were protected by a shimrah elyonah, but that doesn't mean that we are allowed to say that this happened to the chilonim and not to us. During an eis tzarrah everyone in klall Yisrael is equal . The problem is that everyone likes to worry about what someone else needs to fix. It's clear that we are living through a time when everyone must do teshuvah, and each person has to make his own cheshbons as to what to improve. You can't look at someone else's tikkun. etc etc. 

 A naar bliebt a naar, and the Frank pushes on......

Frankfurter: "There's also the fact that so many of the victims weren't shomrei Torah umitzvah, meaning that their widows might not care ( to positively ID the bodies so that the widow don't remain agunahs)"

DIN: I have to pinch myself to make sure this is not a bad dream. The "widows might not care?" 

How crazy is this guy? His wife must be a tzediekis living with this unmitigated dope, she also may be oiver on a dorieesah of the prohibition of living with a beheimah!

R' Brandsdorfer: The do care, because in order to get married in Israel they have to have the approval of the Rabbanut. 

Unfortunately, some people are approaching this as if it's just another milchamah for the Tziyonim to deal with, but this is so much bigger that that! When we daven, we say: "Acheinu KOL beis Yisrael hanesunim batzarah uvashivyah" We are obligated to daven for them. Someone called me from Mexico and explained that he follows the shitah of Satmar. There were tefillos being said for the soldiers of Tzahal, and he didn't know what to do about that. I replied, "I don't understand the question. Don't we daven for all of klall Yisrael even if the only maaleh they have is "beshem Yisrael yechuneh... they are Jews in name only?" After krias ha'Torah, we daven for all Yiden "bein bayam uvein bayabashah... whether at sea or on dry land." How can you have a problem with that?

Frankfurter pushes on with his stupid comments dragging in the deceased Vayoel Moshe: 

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I don't get it, did I just read that (above  screenshot) correctly? The Satmar Rav said that the mitzvah of defending Jews was a private "matter between the Kedushas Levi and the Ribbono Shel Olam?"

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! get me out of here!!! Can someone out there verify this? Crazy stuff!!

R' Branddorfer trying to put some sanity back into this conversation:

"My father wanted to establish the Heical Horaah, He said:"I need a place that doesn't belong to the Eida Hachareidis, Agudas Yisrael or to She'eiris. It can't be Litvish or chasidish; it has to belong to all Yidden regardless of their background"  Although we follow the shitah of Satmar Rav, nevertheless, when it comes to halacha, people need to know that they can ask for a psak without hashkafah mixed in."

DIN: Now I have no clue why R' Brandorfer said this, because as grandchildren of Rav Yisacher Teichtal HY"D their Shitah is actually 180 degrees opposite Satmar Shita. I think he actually answered this on the next question when he says that "every rebbe makes his own changes and additions." 

I think that the Satmar Shitah that R' Brandsdorfer follows and refers to is to eat bubilich Friday Night in his chicken soup. 

Frankfurter: But it can be problematic when there are contradictions between shitos

DIN: This has to win the trophy of the stupidest question of the interview... R' Brandsdorfer just got through explaining that he doesn't paskin based on "shitas and hashkafos" he paskins based on Halacha, but Frankfurter doesn't get it.

R' Brandorfer: There aren't any real contradictions (between shitos) This is especially true because every rebbe makes his own changes and additions.