The idea that before Zionism, Jews had lived in peace in Arab lands is an absolute myth!

 

One idea that Satmar and other Anti-Zionists push to further their hate of the Zionists is the idea that before Zionism Jews in Arab lands lived peacefully side by side. Its interesting to note that this is what the Arab murderers and Satmar have in common. Both of these groups use this for their propaganda in the exact same way. 

But this has been proven on this blog time and again to be a fabrication and an outright lie! 

Read the facts below! 

What really happened to the million Jews who lived in Arab lands? Unfortunately, so many people spread lies about what happened to those Jews – chiefly as a way of propping up a false Palestinian narrative – that most people have no idea of the truth or the scale of the disaster. They see the lies spreading online, but simply do not have the material they need to counter the disinformation campaign.

The ‘Jewish problem’ in the Arab lands

A simple fact: in the 20th century almost a million Jews resided in ancient Jewish communities spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa.

Another simple fact: at the end of the 20th century, there was almost nothing left.

So what happened?

Rabbanim Get Together to Issue "Kol Korah" Against the Gerer Kidnappings

I know what you are thinking. Why is it necessary to issue a "Kol Korah" against kidnappings when it's explicit in the 10 Commandments "Lo Tignov" You shall not steal another human being?

The reason is that Chassidim by in large have their own interpretation of the entire Torah and therefore need their Rabbis to tell them that here with this particular commandment we all agree!

The Gerer Gestapo Commander Avraham Binyamin Silverberg Who Orders the Kidnappings!

Yiddish Explanation Why We Have Corona

 

Israeli Truckers Are Next

 

Song of Moed Katan

 

Ger now kidnapping Children from the Opposition ... as 2 Girls are now missing

 

 Two sisters, ages 17 and 14, have been missing from their homes for the past week.

According to the girls’ family, the disappearance occurred after the parents, Tzvi Arie and Leah Sandik, decided to move out of the Gerrer community in Ashdod. They say community leaders suspected that they were planning to join the community of Rav Shaul Alter.

The parents say that Gerrer authorities were in close contact with the girls, persuaded them to oppose their parents’ decision and flee from home, and arranged special living accommodations. They say the girls, 17-year-old Esti and 14-year-old Ricky underwent brainwashing for months by mentors with senior positions in Ger, including women from their educational staff at their seminary, who instructed them to flee the home as soon as their parents tried to leave the community.

According to Israeli media reports, the family recently has felt disconnected from Chassidus, and they apparently considered the possibility of joining the “breakaway” community led by Rav Shaul Alter, however they did not take any real steps to join.

The family reportedly decreased contact and involvement with the Gerrer community in general, and decided to move from Ashdod to Bnei Brak and send their children to Chassidishe yeshivos there.

The parents say that community leaders and yeshiva faculty urged the children to defy their parents. The family’s 12-year-old boy said that one of his teachers told him: “You have no father or mother, you have to do what the Vaad says.” In addition, the girls’ older married siblings who remain connected with the Gerrer Chassidus helped persuade them to abscond from home.

According to the report, the parents even assured the 17 year old that she could continue to study in the Gerrer seminary in Ashdod, and offered to arrange transportation.

About two weeks ago, both daughters did not return home one evening. Late that night the younger one called from a blocked number, said “I am fine”, and hung up.

The next day the two girls returned home.

Then to their horror, a week ago the parents woke up and saw that the two girls were gone, and they saw a ladder placed near the girls’ bedroom window.

The parents have gone to court, and the court is involved in the matter, however the details have not been disclosed.

One follower of the Gerrer Chassidus denied any involvement in the disappearance, and claimed that it is an internal family matter.

The police confirmed that an investigation is ongoing, and that the parties accused have denied any involvement.

A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to assist the family.

Andy Levin the Jewish congressman wants Israel to be narrower than his district

 

A Michigan congressman is complaining that he is being subjected to “ad hominem attacks” because his pro-Palestinian positions have been criticized. But there’s nothing ad hominem about pointing out that this congressman wants to reduce Israel to a size that will be barely one-third the width of his own congressional district.

The congressman in question is Democrat Andy Levin of Michigan, who is closely associated with J Street and advocates forcing Israel back to the nine-miles-wide pre-1967 armistice lines.

In fact, Levin is so deeply devoted to making Israel just nine miles wide, that he is the lead sponsor on a bill called the “Two-State Solution Act.” The bill demands the creation of a Palestinian Arab state next to Israel, in what he calls “the occupied Palestinian Territories.”

Sec.5 (a) of the Levin bill defines those territories as “the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza.”

Those are the areas that Israel captured in the 1967 war. Which means that if the state of “Palestine” is established, Israel will return to being nine miles wide at a point a few miles above Tel Aviv, as it was prior to 1967.

The centrality of marital intimacy In the Jewish home ... Rabbi Eliezer Melamed Answers His Critics.

 

Before you read the article, I would like to point out that R' Yaakov Yaavetz Me'Emden in his siddur is far more explicit than Rav Melamed. I don't recall anyone criticizing his work.

Q: Rabbi, with your permission and out of great respect for you, I wanted to write about something that perplexed me after studying the book ‘Simḥat Ha-bayit U-virkhato‘. I have found instructions that seem to me to be suitable for chozrim b’teshuva (returnees to Orthodox Judaism), or for specific cases, but not for the vast majority of observant couples who want to build their homes in holiness and purity, and without all the various damaging notions that the corrupt Western culture introduces into other societies. Rabbi, why did you write them as a general guide?

In addition, there is an overemphasis in the book on the importance of the mitzvah of ona (marital intimacy). In contrast, however, I learned from my rabbis that it is better for marital intimacy to be limited (Torah scholars should have marital relations on Shabbat evening, and that Torah scholars should not be intimate with their wives like roosters) and not joyfully, as explained in a number of sections in the book (Chapter 1, Halakhot 1-2, Chapter 2, Halakhot 1 and 3). Perhaps this guidance is suitable for baalei teshuva, but not for yeshiva students, and why is it not explicitly written that these are bedi’avad (ex post facto) instructions for situations where it is necessary to be maykel (rule leniently), and not for a normal situation?

The Background for Writing the Book

You think this beating by a student in Public School was bad? Wait till you read this!

 

Violent classroom attack prompts calls for accountability in Public Schools across the country! Begs the question why some in NYC even have the #Chutspah to even say that Orthodox Jewish Yeshivas should be “equivalent to Public Schools??? Don’t they see the difference In values? https://t.co/aVogz1nK68

— UJCARE (@UJCARE) February 7, 2022

Gather round and pull up a chair, it’s time for a story on violence & silent bystanders inside a Yeshiva.

It’s a story of cruelty, and of compliance, and of indoctrination.

🧵/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

Getting slapped in the face for the most minor infraction went without saying. (One of his favorite ways to hurt those he hated most was to hold us up on our tippy-toes by the soft skin under our chins until we got used to it & then WHACK us in the face w/o warning)

3/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

A classmate that year who was left back (possibly 2 grades) into our class due to severe learning disabilities, happened to have been the grandson of the Bobover himself. He very much seen as a ‘failson’.

Well Nuta won’t let the Ruv’s grandson fail HIS class, no way Jose!

4/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

Nuta Landau, scary as he was, was particularly hard on this kid. He really tortured him on a regular basis. Gave him zero breaks and rode him hard. The boy had no chance to succeed, thus acted out in disruptive ways in response to the pressure. I mean, he was 9, 10 MAX.

5/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

Finally the day came that he did something which REALLY annoyed Nuta. Nuta plotzed. He took that boy out of the class and around to the hallway beside our class wall.

But before they left he gave us all an icy stare and said “palms on desks. Nobody move or make a sound”

6/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

We sat there stalk-still. Nobody moved.

The aforementioned hallway was an annex we called ‘The Subway’ which had a sealed-off door into our class, making it less soundproof than a typical wall.

We heard him throw the kid on the floor and whip him with a belt.

7/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

Inside the class we were frozen in place.

You could hear a pin-drop.

The only sounds were Nuta grunting, the ‘whoosh’ of the belt swinging, the ‘WHACK’ of it connecting to body, and the boy shrieking at the top of his lungs after each lash.

I mean bloodcurdling yells.

8/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

I don’t know who else heard what, but inside that classroom we heard each & every sound.

Not one boy moved or made a peep.

Nobody from another class went and rescued the kid.

It was a perfectly normal scene to have a rebbe whip a disabled boy with a belt in the hallway. 9/9 https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

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