What is it with certain Charedi biographies that they feel the need to tear others down in order to elevate their own figures? I’ve spoken about this before, and unfortunately it keeps repeating itself.
In this particular biography, they go so far as to denigrate Jews who wear kippot serugot, essentially labeling them as resha’im.
Think about that: they are calling fully observant, Shomrei Torah U’mitzvot, “evil.” This is what they choose to teach children and teenagers.
Worse yet, the book mocks and belittles Harav Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook זצ״ל, portraying him as one of the “four sons” at the Seder table — and not in a flattering way. Anyone with even minimal knowledge of Torah history knows how absurd this is. Rav Elyashiv זצ״ל himself referred to Rav Kook as one of the greatest gedolim of his generation and would regularly attend his shalosh seudos. The Sulam, the great commentator on the Zohar, described Rav Kook as a towering Talmid chacham. Harav Kook z"l was the mesader kiddushin for both Harav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach z"l and Harav Eliyashiv z"l!
Yet this biography specifically geared towards teenagers chooses to erase all of that and instead drip its pages with disdain and hate against other Jews. The entire portrayal of the Chazon Ish is framed through a lens of negativity toward other Jews — a tone that feels like pure sinat chinam rather than genuine biography. Is the Chazon Ish a bigger tzaddik because his autobiographer denigrated hundreds of thousands of Dati Leumi Jews??
They are producing a generation of haters!
It’s a perfect book for ביעור חמץ
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