"Williamsburg -
Satmar Rebbe (R' Zalman Leib Teitelbaum) expressed his pain over the situation that recently occured in Meron ( zionist police controlling the site) in light of the tragedy that occured last year (on Lag Be'Omer).
Stating that this was previously the only holy place in Eretz Yisrael controlled and managed by "heimishe yeeden" and is now being managed by police of the State of Israel! "
How insane is this statement? Is this guy serious? He is in pain because the government put safety measures in place?
Yes it was indeed the only holy place managed by "heimishe yeedin" and look what occurred?
Needless death!
The families want government control and so does everyone thats sane!
Hopefully the government will never again kowtow to these amateurs and incompetent gangsters!
And what is it with the Satmar Rebbe that he is speaking about Meron?
The Vayoel Moshe, R' Yoel Teitelbaum z"l was dead set against any of his chassidim going to Meron on Lag Be'omer. He made many "drashes" against this minhag and mocked those who went.
Why are R' Zalman Leib's followers filling Lufthansa Planes to fly to the Zionist State for Lag Be'Omer??
A few years ago, R' Zalman Leib started a brand new minhag in Williamsburg which was to make an official "bonfire" "hadlaka" on Lag Be'Omer. This at the time was to discourage his chassidim from leaving him to travel to Meron which left him with barely a minyan.
His brother, R' Aron yelled and screamed that this new minhag was against the shita of R' Yoel z"l.
But suddenly R' Aron realized that his own followers were abandoning Kiryas Yoel like poisoned rats and were filling the friendly skies to rush to Meron.
R' Aron turned around one Lag Be'Omer and noticed that there was no one there.
He quietly decided to dump "the shita" in the nearest trash bin just like his brother did a few prior and instituted the "hadlaka" in Monroe, and prohibited the bochrim from flying to Meron.
The Skverer Rebb also instituted this new minhag a few years ago of making a "Hadlaka" and put a "Fatwa" against going to Meron on Lag Be'Omer for good measure.
So going back to R' Zalman Leib, what was he thinking making this outrageous statement about Meron?
That's why you need to follow DIN to get the news behind the news, to get the "rare view."
R' Zalman Leib, even though he has his own "hadlaka" couldn't stop his chassidim from jumping his sinking ship and rushing to Meron. So he decided to rant at his Shalosh Seudeh that the "evil Zionist are now controlling the only holy site that was previously managed by the (incompetent) heimishe yeedin"
He came up with this tactic to discourage his followers from running to the Zionist State! To him this statement as bizarre as it was, was a necessary tactic. He couldn't just say "well, this is not what R' Yoel wanted, this is against his shitah" His followers are slowly coming around realizing that they were fed a diet of lies. The new generations of Satmar have visited Israel and have seen with their own eyes the miracles of the State and are scratching their heads, wondering how the "shita" fits in with reality. So R' Zalman Leib realized that he cannot just tell them about the "shitah" they would laugh at him.
I remember growing up when Satmarer Chassidim would say that the"medina will not last 40 years" this was in 1967.
R' Yoel z"l said in 1956 that "in 20 years, they won't be any moisdos ha'torah left, and all the chilonim will assimilate."It's now 66 years later and even though we have our problems, there is more Torah learned in Israel than anywhere in the world. There are more Gedoilei Yisrael in Israel than anywhere in the world. In a recent survey by the Wall Street Journal they found that Israelis are one of the happiest people in the world. It has one of the strongest economies.
And what is it with Chassidishe Rebbes that instead of talking about the parsha at Shalosh Seudois they "ploppel" about all kinds of "narishkeitin?"
