“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l

Thursday, August 17, 2023

Charedi leaders back down from Draft Law demands

 

Senior haredi officials were quoted Thursday as saying that there is internalization among haredi political leaders that, amid the public protests against the judicial reform, it will not be possible to approve a conscription law as stipulated in the coalition agreement.

According to a report on the haredi website Kikar Hashabbat, the haredi internalization took shape last week after Defense Minister Yoav Gallant met with senior members of the haredi parties and explained to them that the rift in Israeli society prevents the promotion of a law in the spirit that the haredim demand.

During the meeting, Minister Gallant cited the warnings of senior officials of the General Staff and the IDF Personnel Division who warn against the secular reluctance of parents who will refuse to send their sons and daughters to the army as long as the government enacts a conscription law in the spirit proposed currently.

"We listened to Galant, we didn't agree, but we understood that there was a problem. Gallant is not [Yisrael Beytenu chair MK Avigdor] Liberman, he does not act with hostility to the haredim," a haredi official was quoted as saying.

According to the indications, the haredi parties will advance a law based on the outline agreed upon in the coalition agreements in the Netanyahu-Gantz unity government.

Among the sections of the law, it will include recruitment targets and economic sanctions alongside targets for haredim entering the job market.

CRAZY!!!! >>>Rav Sholom Ber Sorotzkin Redeems Old Telz Yeshiva Building 82 Years After Holocaust Annihilation

 

DIN: Someone please tell me that this was all a bad dream, please!

How sick and perverted is this? Who paid for this craziness? 

I hear Yeshivishe guys tell me all the time "you know Hashem wants us in galus, He spit us out of Israel"

Well didn't the very same Hashem spit you out of Telz? 

Most of the talmiddim from Telz were murdered by their neighbors, The grounds of Telz is soaked in Jewish blood. Telz is NOT holy, Telz is a city steeped in Tumah. I'm waiting for Putin to raze the entire city and make it into a parking lot!

This Sorotzkin character compares this site to Har Sinai, and "people should take their shoes off when entering the building" well I have news to Sorotzkin, Har Sinai has absolutely no kedusha attached to it. None whatsoever! What a whack job this guy is!

In a moving ceremony which took place at the old historic building of the Telz yeshiva in Telz, Lithuania, Rabbi Sholom Ber Sorotzkin, the head of the Ateres Shlomo yeshiva and grandson of the Telz rosh yeshivas, redeemed the building 82 years after its students had left, most of whom were later murdered in the Holocaust.

The yeshiva, which was founded some 160 years ago by Rabbi Eliezer Gordon, was the most famous yeshiva in Lithuania after the closure of Volozhin. Rabbi Yosef Leib Bloch, the son-in-law of Rabbi Gordon, continued to serve as rosh yeshiva after him and his son, Rabbi Avrohom Yitzchak Bloch HyD was murdered in the Holocaust together with his students on 20th Tammuz 5701 (July 15, 1941)

Rachmastrivka Rebbe Passes Away at 92

 

DIN: People constantly ask me :

"Is there even one rebbe that you respect?

My answer was always: "There are many on my list, but the Rachmastrivka z"l tops my list." 

The rebbe was a gentle soul who truly loved every single Jew, never played into the rebbeshe politics though others tried to draw him in. The previous Skverer Rebbe chose him as a son-in-law, and the rebbe was the Rosh Yeshiva of Skver for many years until Skverer Chassidim saw his greatness and needed to move him out so that he doesn't become a threat to his brother-in-law, the present Skverer Rebbe; he will be missed by all who loved and cherished him. 

Rachmastrivka rebbe of Borough Park, Rabbi Chai Yitzchok Twersky passed away this afternoon at the age of 92.

The Rebbe was an internationally known tzaddik, who lead his Bais Medrash and kehillah in Borough Park on 45th Streer.

He is the uncle of the other Rachmastrivka Rebbe in Jerusalem.

Levaya will be held at 4 p.m. at the main Rachmastrivka beis medrash in Boro Park, followed by kevurah in the Rachmastrivka section of Har Shalom Cemetery in Airmont.

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Rav Amnon Yitzchok Says in Monsey that all Chareidie Meats are "Neveilah and Treifas"


Karma! Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg Gets Booed by Ahroinim on His Visit to His Uncle's Kever in Kiryas Yoel

 


Reb Zalman Leib, Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg got a nasty reception in Kiryas Yoel when he went to visit the kever of R' Joel, founder of Satmar Chassidis! The Ahroinim surrounded and booed him.

R' Zalman Leib has a big mouth when it to disparaging the Me'etzet Gedoilei Ha' Torah, but becomes meek like a mouse standing up to his own brother R' Aaron. 

If you stop and think about this, it's sheer lunacy, two brothers fighting, for what?

They are politically on the same page, no hashkafic differences, so what is this all about?

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Holy' rabbis with obvious openly displayed "Sinas Chinum" 

The chassidim supporters are the crazy ones, because they have nothing out of this feud, but follow their rabbis like dumb sheep!




 

In 5th Tragedy Of Bein Hazmanim, 18-Year-Old Yeshiva Student Drowns


 In yet another tragic incident which occurred during the final days of the Bein Hazmanin period in Israel, an 18-year-old Yeshiva student, Yishai Keinan z’l, drowned in a lagoon near the Kinneret lake on Tuesday.


Keinan, a resident of the Pisgat Zeev neighborhood in Jerusalem, was a student at the Tiferet Levi yeshiva in Elad. He went with friends to the lagoon, located near Maale Gamla at the entrance to the Golan heights. At a certain point, Yishai lost contact with his friends and went underwater. Fire and rescue teams from Golan and divers from the Lehava unit located Yishai’s body hours later in the lagoon.

United Hatzalah volunteers Ohad Ringer and Avi Elhiani said that “The youth drowned and was lost, according to his friends description. Divers succeeded in locating and removing his body from the water and he was declared dead at the scene.”

Yishai was born on 26 Av 5765, exactly 18 years ago. He studied in the Tiferes Levi yeshiva ketana and last year entered the yeshiva gedolah, where he was considered one of the best students, studying Torah at all hours from 7:30 AM until the small hours of the night. Friends said that this was a “Great loss for family, yeshiva, and the entire generation. Without doubt he would have been one of the more prominent Talmidei Chachamim of the generation due to his diligence and perseverance in Torah and Avodas Hashem.”

Yishai z’l was brought to his final rest on Har Hamenuchos at 1:30 AM Wednesday. May his memory be blessed.

The current tragedy is unfortunately the fifth tragedy in the last few weeks of Bein Hazmanim. Two weeks ago, Rabbi Binyamin Praga (44) died of dehydration and exposure in a Jordan Valley stream. 10-year-old Baruch Abadi of Kiryat Sefer died in a swimming pool near his home. 4-year-old David Turgeman drowned in a pool in an Eilat hotel, and R’ Yitzchak Ben-Shimol of Jerusalem (79) drowned in the Kinneret near Tiberias.

תהא נשמתו צרורה בצרור החיים.

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Former Trump advisor Michael Flynn blames Jews for their own deportations to Auschwitz

 

The Auschwitz Museum has slammed comments made by former Trump adviser who blamed Jews for their own deportations at the hands of the Nazis.

In a recent speech, Michael Flynn, a Christian nationalist, suggested mothers were complicit in handing over their young children to go on trains to Auschwitz. 

He said “Any mother who would be told, ‘Give me your child, give me your baby, we’re going to separate you, we’re not just going to put you into a club coach car. We’re going to stuff you like a sardine into a train.’”

He went on to claim “there weren’t any guards,” implying that Jews could have simply left or said no to Hitler’s soldiers. 

A clip of his speech was posted on Twitter and has been viewed over 8 million times.

Nasrallah: Haredi draft law will be 'major blow' to IDF


 Did anyone ever think that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah would spend large parts of a prime-time speech analyzing social friction in Israel between haredim and other sectors?

Many foreign countries may not even know about Israel’s ultra-Orthodox sector unless they have tuned in to some Hollywood movies or happened to have a rare interaction with a haredi minister on some kind of global issue.

Yet Nasrallah told his followers that the Jewish state will come apart over the issue of a proposed Knesset bill that would exempt haredim from serving in the IDF.

Satmar Rebbe Condems Agudat Israel's Statement to Biden "Its a Shame and a Disgrace"

 

DIN: I don't know whether I should laugh or cry! 

The Agudath Israel of the US is under the guidance of the Me'oetzet Gedoilei Ha'Torah, and they decided to issue a statement directed to the Biden administration telling them in effect to bud out of Israeli politics.

The truth is every single frum Shul should gather signatures and send them to members of congress with this exact message,

Comes this brazen Chassidish leader from Williamsburg who ridicules and bashes the Litvishe Gedoilei Hatorah that decided to send this letter to Washington .

One of those members of the Me'oetzet is none other than Rav Malkiel Kotler, Rosh Yeshiva of Lakewood who is in the habit of licking the derrière of R' Zalman Leib, the Satmar Rebbe. I'm wondering if R' Malkiel will come out with a statement defending the Litvishe Gedoilim of the Me'oetzet, I will not hold my breath!

It's one thing to disagree, it's a whole other thing when a leader of thousands of Chassidim mocks and denigrates with the harshest words other Gedoilim.

And on what day did he do this? 

Just days from  the Yurzeit of his uncle R' Yoel Teitelbaum the founder of the Satmar Chassidus. It was his uncle that had no problem calling other Chassidish & Litvishe Gedoilim, "Meenim & Apikorsim!"  The Rebbe z"l was against the Chareidie Parties sitting in the Knesset and wrote in his Vayoel Moshe that anyone that supports a party that sits in Knesset is a "meen and apikoras" Among those "apikorsim" would be the Bais Yisrael of Ger, Belzer Rebbe, Rav Shach and Harav Avadia Yosef z"l, etc etc.

Monday, August 14, 2023

New York Times Does Not Print the $32 Billion in Israel High-Tech Investment Because It Doesn't Fit in Their Agenda!

 

If there’s a single consistently emphasized theme of the New York Times coverage of judicial reform in Israel, it’s been that the effort may devastate the Israeli high-technology economy.

“Netanyahu’s Judicial Coup Could Destroy His Start-Up Nation,” was the headline over a February 14, 2023, Thomas Friedman column. “As a general rule, investors don’t like investing in countries roiled with protests and chaos. And that is why some have started pressing the pause button,” Friedman wrote.

In case any Times readers missed the point, the Times followed up with a February 23, 2023, news article, headlined “Tech Leaders in Israel Wonder if It’s Time to Leave.” The article itself pressed the claim beyond just wondering, declaring, “The luminaries of Start-Up Nation, as Israel has been known for decades, are eyeing the exits. Several have already announced that they are relocating or moving money out of the country…” The Times reported that people “are reappraising what it means to operate here and deciding that if the government retools the judiciary, it is time to leave.”