On Auction the 1920 Letter of "Hate and Jealousy" of The Eida Hachreidis Against Harav Kook and R' Chaim Ozer's Response

נצחונו הגדול של הראי"ה קוק על שונאיו - קנאי ירושלים

מכתב שיטנה שנכתב נגדו ב-1920 ונחשף עכשיו, מבטא את עומק התיעוב שרחשו הקנאים לראי"ה

 "The Great Triumph of Harav Avraham Yitzchok Kook  Over His Enemies. The Yerushalyim Extremists"

"Hate letter that they sent to Harav Chaim Ozer in 1920 reveals the deep hatred the Extremists had against Harav Kook z"l"

The Mishna in Pirkei Avos states:

רבי אלעזר הקפר אומר הקנאה והתאוה והכבוד מוציאין את האדם מן העולם 

"Rabbi Elazar Ha'Kapar says, Envy, Lust and desire for honor, drive a man out of the world"

Chazal say that the reason Korach rebelled against Moshe Rabeinu was only because of envy, and jealousy!

Korach managed to get support from the greatest tzaddikim of that generation. The Torah describes those tzadikim:

נשיאי עדה קראי מועד אנשי שם

"Princes of the assembly, representatives of the Jewish people, and famous"

In other words Korach was able to convince the Moetzes Hagdolah, the Eida Hachreidis of that generation.

A letter of hate and filth was written and signed by the then "Gedoileo Hador" against the Chief Rabbi of Yerushalyim, Harav Avraham Yitzchok Kook z"l. 

The letter written in 1920 was addressed and delivered to the Leader of European Jewry, Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzinski z"l, who was the pre-eminent Av Bais Din, Posek, and Talmudic scholar in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The purpose of that letter was to get Rav Chaim Ozer on board to condemn Rav Kook z"l. Rav Chaim Ozer as well as other Gedoilim of that generation who read the letter refused to comment and refused to have anything to do with the signatories.

The signatories of that hateful letter were in no particular order: 

R' Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld  who also stamped it with his official stamp, R' Yitzchak Yeruchim Diskin also with his stamp, The Badatz of Yerushlayim, R' Moshe Nachum Wallenstein, R' Mordchai Leib Rubin, And R' Yitzchok Frenkel with the Badatz stamp.

What makes this news is that the letter is now on auction. The historian Moshe Nachmeinu, who is now in the midst of writing a book after doing extensive research of the extremists sefarim and hateful campaign of a Gadol brought this letter to light, and sets this as an example of how the greatest tzaddikim were consumed by envy, jealousy and pure evilness, rishis!

What prompted this letter? 

Rav Shmuel Salant who served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Of Yerushalayim for almost 70 years was niftar, and the extremists were looking to fill that position with either Rav Yosef Chayim Sonnenfeld or with R' yitzchak Yeruchim Diskin. In 1919, Rav Kook was appointed the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Yerushalyim and soon after appointed the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Palestine in 1921. It was Rav Kook's appointment in 1919 that drove the extremists crazy and they began a campaign of harassment and hate against the Gadol Hador. Rav Sonnenfeld having lost the coveted position as Chief Rabbi Yerushalyim promptly founded the Eida Ha'chreidis which he headed in the same year that the letter was sent. 

It's important to note that prior to Rav Kook's appointment to Chief Rabbi of Yerushalyim, in 1919, Rav Sonnenfeld said not a bad word about him and there wasn't any tension and in fact in 1913, the two travelled together to the Galilee to try to return secular Jewish pioneers to Torah Judaism.

His crime? Believing and preaching that that the fact that Jews were returning to Eretz Yisrael was the "Aschata DeGeulah" the "beginning of the redemption," Loving every Jew, be he a frum Jew or a secular Jew and advocating working with Zionists to establish the return of all Jews to our homeland. Though Rav Sonnenfeld also believed that all Jews must live in Eretz Yisrael, he hated the Zionists with a passion as did all pre WW2 Hungarian and Roumanian Frum Jews. Rav Sonnenfeld was originally from Hungary!

Rav Kook established the Yeshiva Mercaz Ha'Rav in 1924 and despite Chareidie opposition, parents of the Yishuv ignored the Badatz and sent their precious children to the Yeshiva to get a proper Torah Education. That Yeshiva exists today and many well known Rabbanim graduated that Moisad.

It's interesting to note that today in 2022, every single city in Israel has classes on the works of Harav Kook. His sefarim are learned by Chassidim, Sfradim, Litvaks Dati Leumis'. His Torah is being spread all over Israel, but it's hard to find a Jew who knows or learns the sefarim of the haters. 

Read on next page an article that appeared in Matzav Huruach and my loose translation

Bennett Talks to Biden on the Phone and Halts Jerusalem E1 Corridor Plan

 

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday evening spoke with President Joe Biden for the first time since the PM’s visit to the White House on August 28.

Also on Sunday: Bennett and Defense Minister Benny Gantz ordered the Judea and Samaria Supreme Planning Committee to suspend discussions on approving the E-1 construction plan to connect Ma’ale Adumim and Jerusalem. The plan covers an area of about 3,000 acres, most of it is state land, with the construction of about 3,500 housing units at its center.

E1 is located at the narrowest point of Judea and Samaria, where the illegal Khan al Ahmar squatters’ settlement has been festering since 2018, with both the Netanyahu and Bennett governments preferring to ignore a Supreme Court decision to remove it. That’s because E1 is the key to whether or not there will be a Palestinian State someday in Judea and Samaria. If E1 remains desolate, with only the illegal shantytown dotting the area from Ma’ale Adumim to Jerusalem, there’s a good chance a contiguous Palestinian State will someday stretch through there. On the other hand, should the plan for urban sprawl from Jerusalem to Ma’ale Adumim be carried out, then any future Arab political entity would be forever split in its middle.

The E1 plan had been frozen for years, and the Supreme Committee renewed deliberations on it during PM Netanyahu’s last government. The committee proceeded through the first eight months of the Lapid-Bennett coalition but now put it aside again. According to Israel Hayom, one reason for the halt was an outcry from Meretz who declared that E1 constituted a red line that cannot be crossed. The other objection to the E1 plan has been coming from the Americans, who are well aware of the consequences to the two-state plan should a solid wall of Israeli suburban homes be allowed to stretch across the PA’s narrowest waist.

Agudah Protests Antisemitic Cartoon in Monsey Newspaper

 An antisemitic ad has been published in one of the largest newspapers in Rockland County, the Journal News (aka Lohud).

The Agudath Israel has released a statement against the disgraceful ad, and is demanding an apology. The ad cartoon depicts an image of a puppet-master representing a Rabbi, who is manipulating what appear to be children on top of a pile of cash. The headline next to the ad says: 

Rabbi holds the strings on $76M for East Ramapo School District

Here is the statement in response:

Agudath Israel of America viewed with alarm an incendiary promotional advertisement published today for an upcoming article in Journal News (Lohud), a popular newspaper in Rockland County.

The caption, “Rabbi holds the strings on $76M for East Ramapo School District… Coming Feb. 9,” appears above a puppet master using pencils and string to manipulate what appears to be children atop a pile of cash.

While the article, or even the identity of the “rabbi” (as though his “rabbihood” is somehow germane) are unknown, the caricature evokes the worst antisemitic tropes, and is categorically unacceptable. The concept of the Jew as a conspiratorial puppet master, covertly manipulating the world economy and events, harks back to at least the 1700’s, as further amplified upon in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Its imagery and underlying implications have stoked pogroms for hundreds of years, and was employed as recently as by the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, who killed 11 worshippers in the largest modern mass shooting against Jews in America, at Tree of Life in 2018. We wonder how any article which emerges from an editorial board that approved such a hateful cartoon can pretend to be free from bias.

Agudath Israel calls for a full apology, and actionable commitment by Lohud to avoid bigoted imagery and coverage of the Jewish community in Rockland County in the future.

Dovi Soiefer Was Attacked By Two Rottweilers -This Was His Unusual Request From Their Jewish Owner

 

🇺🇸✡️ — JEWISH NEWS: While out in Florida for the ECAP show this morning, Dov Soiefer from Culinary Depot got attacked by two dogs. The owner apologized and revealed he is Jewish too. Dovi asked him if he would like to put on Tefillin, which he did for the first time in his life. pic.twitter.com/1H2i0GvONi

— Belaaz News (@TheBelaaz) February 6, 2022

Dovi Soiefer, a Jewish businessman, arrived in Miami for a business conference – “the ECAP Health Conference” this week, looking forward to productive business meetings.

On his way to the conference, Soiefer was attacked by two rottweiler dogs, who knocked him to the ground and scratched and bit him on the arm. After the owner of the dogs succeeded in controlling them, he gave Soiefer his number and told him to be in touch and receive restitution from him.

A woman from the hotel who saw the attack called police, who said that if Soiefer pressed charges, the dogs would be put down.

The embarrassed owner of the dogs pleaded with Soiefer not to press charges and promised him compensation for his injuries. The man said that he had already recently lost a dog to sickness and did not want to lose his other dogs. However after Soiefer heard that the owner of the dogs was Jewish, he had a different request from him. 

In Israel Pizza is now made by Robots

Anthony Blinken stands accused of meddling in Albanian elections on behalf of billionaire financier George Soros and is being sued for defamation in an international court as a result.

 

As if Secretary of State Antony Blinken weren’t embroiled in enough foreign debacles, he now stands accused of meddling in Albanian elections on behalf of billionaire financier George Soros and is being sued for defamation in an international court as a result. 

One of Blinken’s curious first actions on taking office being sworn in last year was to sanction the former president and prime minister of Albania, Sali Berisha, the anti-communist ally of Presidents H.W. and W. Bush, and who has been in opposition for eight years, and who is a vocal opponent of Soros and his Open Society Foundations, which has been pushing judicial and electoral “reform” in Albania. 

In an official statement and accompanying tweet last April, Blinken alleged that Berisha is “corrupt” and had “undermined democracy in Albania,” and barred him, his wife and two children from entering the US. 

Chassidim Upset Because of Swastikas Spray-Painted on School Buses in ... But Will they burn the Israeli Flag on Purim?

 

So I see that when their vehicles are defaced with hate slogans, they don't like it one bit, but come Purim they will burn the Jewish flag on the streets of Williamsburg and stand around like drunk baboons mocking a flag that for Goyim around the world represents the Jewish people. 

That flag that they despise represents them as well, as goyim given the opportunity will shove them and the Zionists into the same ovens.

Rabbanim always say "this is because of this, and this is because of that"

So maybe just maybe, this is a wake up call from Above, not to be "metzaar" other Jews that hold that flag sacred!

Frum Jews in Williamsburg were the victim of yet another hate crime on Sunday when a suspect spray-painted swastikas on multiple school buses at Division Avenue and Rodney Street.

The incident comes just a day after multiple chasidim were victimized in unprovoked attacks over Shabbos. The NYPD’s 90th Precinct, Hate Crimes Task Force, and Williamsburg Shomrim are investigating the incident and seeking to identify the suspect in this case.

“I am angry & heartbroken by two more anti-Semitic, violent incidents in our community over Shabbos,” Councilman Lincoln Restler wrote on Twitter. “A man was violently struck upside the head in Bed Stuy by Marcy & Myrtle. Swastikas & other graffiti were spray painted on yeshiva school bus in Williamsburg by Division & Rodney.”

The ADL wrote on Twitter “We are horrified that yeshiva school buses clearly marked in Yiddish could be vandalized in such a way with hateful symbols, especially on the same day that we found two Jewish men to have been assaulted in the area. NY must be a safe heaven for all and this hate must stop!

 

GoFundMe backtracks on redistributing money for Canadian truckers, under threat of fraud investigation

 

GoFundMe backtracks on redistributing money for Canadian truckers, under threat of fraud investigation https://t.co/kxJTLK2dLc

— NEWS MAKER (@NEWS_MAKER) February 5, 2022

Four years for walking into the Capitol. Probation for burning a school.

 

Kindergarten Forces Toddlers To March and Scream "Black Lives Matter"

 

Kindergarten has changed. https://t.co/SjP3rwgoT8

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 4, 2022