If I hear the word "Daas Torah" one more time, I am going to scream!
I grew up in Brooklyn amongst Holocaust survivors and went to both Chassidishe Yeshivas and to Yeshivas leaning to the Litvishe derech and never ever heard the term "Daas Torah" . This "Daas Torah" was invented by the Yeshivishe morons to elevate their obscure Roshei Yeshivas. The Chassidim would never accept the psaks or the "daas Torah" of the Yeshivishe "gedoilim" and the more modern learned YU would certainly laugh at their childish psaks, so to make themselves feel important they drag out their "senior she'be' seniors" make them into "world leaders" and now everyone must follow "Daas Torah" and if you don't then you are being mevaza Talmeidei Chachmim...
Aye they are causing this themselves by putting 90 year-olds who have no clue what's going on around them in the political arenas which subjects them to mocking and ridicule, it's their very own fault and they are "asid leitein din ve'Cheshbon"
I'll give an example from the last elections. I was traveling with my wife in Yerushalyim, suddenly I was caught in a traffic jam that lasted for over an hour and so I parked my car and went to see what was going on. I saw an avreich running, hat askew, peyos flying, and so I stopped him asked what was going on, and he said out of breath and panting that R' Chaim Kanievsky just arrived and he was going to address the crowds in a couple of minutes to encourage them to vote for Degel HaTorah. Keep in mind that this avreich was a grown man and I'm sure has a sizable family yet was so excited to drop his gemarra in some shul to hear someone say what he knew in advance was going to be said!
I slowly approached the huge crowds and I noticed a dais high above the crowds and R' Chaim z'l sitting looking into a sefer. Someone placed a mike in front of him and it seems that the guy forgot to check if the mike was live, .....it was!
Suddenly I hear Rav Chaim asking his grandson "vus tu ich do?" "what am I doing here?"
This was in front of thousands of people, the majority of whom do not understand Yiddish. His grandson, Yanky, quickly shut the mike off and I walked away having seen and understood everything.
R' Chaim z"l was dragged from Bnei Brak to Yerushalayim to be a "useful stooge" in Degel politics. He didn't want to be there and he wasn't sure where he was.
So who is mocking and ridiculing Zekeinim, Talmedei Chachamim? The bloggers who report this atrocity or the ass'kanim that drag them there?
In Beit Shemesh we are facing an election of a Mayor and a City Council, they don't have R' Chaim z"l to kick around anymore and so they dragged out the old feeble Rabbi Landau and he endorsed this Greenberg character (whom he doesn't know from a hole in the wall) in a Sports Stadium in Beit Shemesh that for years the Rabbis of Beit Shemesh said wasn't a place for any Yeshivah Bochur to walk into. But what won't we do for "tayre?"
Bring out the popcorn, now!
This election not only brought out the worst of those learning "tayre." It seems that the "tayre" had absolutely no effect on them, as they beat the hell out of IDF soldiers trying to vote, as I reported yesterday!
Moshe Rabbeinu when he noticed a Jew raise his hand on another, called him a "rasha" mind you, the guy didn't even hit him, he just raised his hand to strike.
But by the Chassidim things turned really nasty as the Viznitzer Rebbe of Bnei-Brak teamed up with Shas to endorse the failed Mayor Moshe Abutbul for Mayor. Keep in mind that the Viznitzer Rebbe lives in the rat-infested Bnei-Brak and now wants this for a city he doesn't live in.
His son-in law, the Viznitzer Rav of Beit Shemesh wants none of that Bnei-Brak filth in the city that he does live in and so he endorsed Greenberg! Keep in mind All of the above pulled the made-up axiom "Daas Torah!" as their motto!
So now that you have a smidgen of what is going on , tell me again which "Daas Torah" should I follow?
*דרמה נוספת בבית שמש: למרות עמדת חמיו מויזניץ - חתנו האדמו״ר הבכיר בבית שמש מכריז על תמיכה בשמואל גרינברג* 📢
My understanding is that Deri wants the current mayor, Mrs Bloch, to win, and so in order to make sure this happens he’s putting Abutbul in to split the opposition vote, clearing the way for Mrs B.
ReplyDeleteMore accurately, Deri wants the Degel candidate to lose, to teach them a lesson in not cutting him out of their deals.
DeleteI endorse what you wrote as I also hate Chareidim
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ReplyDeleteThis blogger does not "hate" chareidim, he is actually a chareidie, but he calls a spade a spade. Did Moshe Rabbeinu hate the Jewish people? Reading Parshas Ve'eschannan it sure looks like it!
You got to understand the difference between Israel and America.
ReplyDeleteIn Israel it’s all about koovid. ALL about even if will cost them money which they don’t have so that’s the compitition - aka as rat race.
In American koovid may count somewhat but it’s all about money. More and more money. They may buy some koovid but money is numero Uno.
I guess you’re not a lamdan. Moshe rabenu doesn’t call the person who lifted his hand to hit ‘a rasha’ contrary to what your kindergarten teacher told you. The Torah itself calls him a rasha. ויאמר לרשע ״למה תכה רעיך״
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ReplyDeleteMy kindergarten rebbe was a huge talmud chacham not like your ama ratzas
Look at the very next rashi...
רעך......רשע כמותך
Your jumping down my throat before reading the very next rashi shows me two things
#1) You are a huge am haaretz
#2) You are constantly looking to find me wrong... I wish you good luck
and #3 which is not in the count but more important ..you are a masochist, you keep following my blog :)
Or he's doing (a) community service through keeping blogs from getting out of hand
DeleteIn the cultural battle, the Chasidim won because they acted more "authentic". They had fancier costumes and bigger parties so the Litvish gave up and started copying them.
ReplyDeleteInstead of sthreimls, we have the offical black hat. Instead of Rebbes, we have "Gedolim". Instead of "Ruach Hakodesh" we have "Daas Torah".