Rav Deutsch a good friend of the Peleg extremists has plenty of time on his hands! Rav Deutsch based his accusations on an interpretation of the Chafetz Chayim! Rabbi Yisrael Groweis, the editor of the Kulmus magazine of Mishpacha, also criticized the popular song, claiming that it contradicts the Chazon Ish’s views on Bitachon!
I don't get it! Who says that the meaning of Bitachon is as the Chazon Ish wrote, in fact the Chazon' Ish's meaning of Bitachon goes against many Rishonim? There are many differents hashkafos out there that aren't based on the Chofetz CChayim or the Chazon Ish!
Rav Deutsch says that the refrain of the song "“And it will be better and better, better and better”is "possible Apikorsas! And brings proof from a bubba maasah from the Chafetz Chayim! Mamash crazy! The hilarious part is Rav Deutsch showed the song to Rav Ezrial Auerbach and he says that Rav Auerbach agreed!
In what alternate universe are these people living in? Rav Ezrial Auerbach once a moderate has become an extremist since his brother R' Shmuel passed on and has taken over the Peleg crazies!! So he shows it to him! Hilarious!
The meaning of Bitachon has been explained in many ways all the way back to the Rabbeinu Bachya, who lived 1,000 years ago! Taking one explanation over another is not apikorsas! There are 70 ways to learn the Torah!
Rav Deutch is jealous of Rav Arush who has written best sellers on Bitachon and has now written a song that went viral! That bothers Rav Deutch who before taking on Rav Arush no one ever heard of him!
Chareide Blogs are mocking Rav Deutch:
נטען על ידי מי שטען כי השיר "ועוד יותר טוב.. " הוא אפיקורסי .
?על פי האוסרים האם מותר לאחל שתהיה שנה "טובה" ומתוקה
Rabbi Avraham Deutsch, the Av Beis Din of Maale Adumim, published a sharp criticism of a trendy new song: ‘Hashem always loves me and things will always be good for me’, claiming that the song, which is based on the words and teachings of Rabbi Shalom Arush, demonstrates a lack of faith.
Rabbi Arush stresses that one who believes and says that Hashem loves him and does good for him will indeed merit good. “Like a child believes his father loves him and then when his father sees him run into the street he’ll hold him tight- it’s clear that this is because he loves him and wants his good. In the same way we need to believe that whatever Hashem does is because he loves us and wants our good,” Rabbi Arush’s students explained.
Rabbi Arush was surprised by the success of the song, which he says he has been singing “for years” and which expresses the faith of the Jewish nation in Hashem.
Yet Rabbi Deutsch disagrees. In a booklet published in honor of his son’s Bar Mitzvah, Rabbi Deutsch referred to the refrain of the song “And it will be better and better, better and better” and called it “possible heresy[apikorsut].”
Rabbi Deutsch based himself on the Chafetz Chaim, who wrote that a person can say that something bitter occurred to him but one cannot say it is bad, as “Whatever Hashem does is for the good.” On one occasion the Chafetz Chaim asked somebody how he feels and the man said “a few more kopeks wouldn’t hurt.” The Chafetz Chaim responded that “Of course it would hurt. Hashem is merciful and wishes to give you more than you need and if he didn’t this is the best situation for you.”
Thus whoever says unthinkingly that it will be “better and better” is demonstrating that he doesn’t believe that what Hashem does is the best possible thing, and this is Apikorsus and a basic lack in the faith that whatever Hashem does is for the good.”
Rabbi Deutsch added that he had presented his interpretation to Rabbi Azriel Auerbach who agreed with him and said that the song “should be cancelled.”
Rabbi Deutsch added that “due to lack of understanding and lack of common sense they bring inadvertently words of lack of faith to all the schools and all of the homes…it is obvious to any G-fearing person that one mustn’t express doubts in faith and which go against our simple faith which we received from generation to generation.
Rabbi Yisrael Groweis, the editor of the Kulmus magazine of Mishpacha, also criticized the popular song, claiming that it contradicts the Chazon Ish’s views on Bitachon, that one may pray that things will always be good but one should truly believe that everything is from Hashem and not that they must be good. However, many readers noted that the Chazon Ish’s view is not in consonance with the rishonim, many of whom define Bitachon as believing that things will indeed be good.
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Years ago I wrote a post in which I suggested that people's understanding of God is based on their father. If their father was a loving man who kind and wanted what was was best for them because that's what God wants, then they saw God as a kind and loving father. And if their father was a OCD type who kept looking for ways to punish them for every little infractions and kept warning them that everything they did made God mad at them, they grew up to be SOB's like this guy.
The Chazon Ish is only a Daas Yochid.
Rav Yankele Hotzenfeffer-Klutzkop A.K.A The Kratz foon Blitte, the 19th century Hungarian Satmar Mekubal who correctly elucidated that it’s better to be besimcha all the time, but it’s not better to say it’s getting better or sing anything at all because not knowing if it will get better is practical advice to those who don’t know if getting better is bad or worse. One’s Bitachon should not be left to Hashem’s devices and permit an accumulation of Worse rather than better. All of Satmar holds this way and The Kratz’s shitah is overwhelmingly much for the better..
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