Shtreimel of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky sold for $1.8 million

 A haredi businessman has purchased the shtreimel of the late sage Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky for a whopping $1.8 million.

The businessman made the purchase at an auction house that was selling items that belonged to Rabbi Kanievsky, after bids from other prospective buyers drove up the price significantly.

The shtreimel has a deeper history, as Rabbi Kanievsky inherited it from his father-in-law Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the former leader of the Lithuanian-haredi community in Israel. Rabbi Elyashiv gave him his old shtreimel after buying a new one for himself.

Rabbi Kanievsky would wear the shtreimel while reciting the kiddush and blessing after meals on Jewish holidays.

The price of a new shtreimel, which is often worn by hasidic haredi men after they get married, ranges from NIS 5,000 (about $1,400) to NIS 20,000 (about $5,500), with an average price of NIS 12,000 (about $3,300).

Zera Shimshon Parshas Va'Yigash

 

Letter to Editor of FJJ Wants "people to stop the hostage posters"

 PLEASE STOP THE HOSTAGE POSTERS!!! 

Whoever is going around Flatbush hanging pictures of all the hostages on every pole, construction site, mailbox and anywhere else they can, needs to please stop. Nothing productive is, or will, come from this, but a lot of negative things are. These posters are bringing the haters and anti-Israel people into our community to tear them down. These posters do not make our community look like a pleasant place to live. Everywhere you turn these posters are highly visible. Our young children should not be living in fear, asking questions about hostages or thinking they live in a dangerous area. When the posters are taken down, they are left torn up all over the place creating a mess. There are no positives to these signs. They don’t make any one of us more connected or more concerned than we all already are. If they do, then it's sad one needs this to be their motivation. These pictures don't heighten our already heightened sense of responsibility to do everything we are doing for Klal Yisroel. Let's be safe. Let's be smart. Let's keep davening. 

Flatbush resident

DIN: Of course, this writer probably lives in a million-dollar home in Flatbush and consumes yaptcha, herring and fatty meat from the meat boards and drowns it all in Glenlivet, every shabbos. 

Did he stop to think, if he had his wife or daughter, chas vesholom, raped and taken hostage if he would have felt the same way? 

This Yeshiva way of thinking is dangerous and is exactly how the Jews in the US felt when their brothers and sisters were being tortured and gassed in Auschwitz! "don't boycott Germany" "Don't protest in the streets" ...A lot of good it did to my own grandparents and extended family. Maybe if there were photos on every corner, the US government would have gotten involved! 

Jews the real Jews who have "rachmonas" who have empathy want to do their part, histadlis, in making sure that the Americans, don't forget the hostages. 

"Nothing productive?" So tell us all what have you done that is productive? Did you send one letter to Congress asking them to support the only Jewish state that is now the home of the majority of the Jewish people? 

He scribbles further: 

" These posters are bringing the haters and anti-Israel people into our community to tear them down" 

No that's a lie what it is doing is exposing your neighbors as a bunch of antisemites that want you dead! Oh! you want to walk the streets of the Galut Flatbush free of fear, while Jewish blood is being spilled on the streets on a daily basis? You selfish ungrateful narcissist!  

He writes: 

"Our young children should not be living in fear, asking questions about hostages or thinking they live in a dangerous area."

No they shouldn't be living in fear, but neither should Jewish children in Israel who are running for their lives into shelters 10-12 times a day!. By the way, did you teach your children about the Churban Bais Hamikdash? Aren't you scaring them? Oh, you say that happened far away and happened a long time ago. So you do not want your children safe in FAT'Bush to think about children their age who are dead in a country far away?

Those posters are a teachable moment to teach your children that not all Jews have it so good, and believe me it's coming to you very soon. You think Hamas will let you and your children live because they are in FAT"bush?

He scribbles:

"There are no positives to these signs. They don’t make any one of us more connected or more concerned than we all already are. If they do, then it's sad one needs this to be their motivation."

If after looking at those signs and you "are not connected or more concerned" then check if you are Me'zera Avraham. ....Whose heart has not broken after glancing at those photos?  And it's "sad that one needs this to be their motivation?" 

What a perverted and sick thought!!!

Someone is broken and is in pain because they have empathy for another Jew, so they hang posters of the hostages to make everyone aware that they will not be forgotten but this arrogant self-righteous tzaddik thinks that this is "sad" 

How low have we sunk?? How low?

Hasbara .... Listen to the facts

 

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Rav Asher Weiss Strongly Disagrees With Rav Shternbuch ... Yeshiva Guys MUST Daven for the Soldiers ... "Roshei Yeshiva who disagree should go home and pass the mantel to others"

 

DIN: So there we have it, a Gadol who strongly disagrees with the likes of Rav Shernbuch, though he doesn't mention him by name and says that Rabbanim like him should quit their jobs and let others with more brains take over! Gut Gezugt... 

Rav Asher Weiss shlit”a, one of the Gedolei Eretz Yisrael, spoke in Passaic on Monday. One fundamental and timely topic he addressed was Charedi yeshivos and others in the yeshiva community davening for soldiers. The Rav, not surprisingly, was extremely in favor, and seemed to feel that it’s not even a question, as it is a basic expression of Ahavas Yisrael.

In regards to the fact that Rabbi Weiss’ own Kollel prays for the names of soldiers, he was asked about certain Roshei Yeshiva who are worried that bochurim will think they are “glorifying” Israeli soldiers and be motivated the join the army.

Rabbi Weiss was steadfast and firmly against that mindset, and completely dismissed it.

He said, “That is a very sad state of affairs, if we are afraid that if boys daven for soldiers, they may join the army.”

He continued, “{If that is the case], the Roshei Yeshiva should go home and pass mantel to others. I totally disagree [with it].

Rabbi Weiss went further. “Rav Chaim Shmulevitz and Rav Chatzkel Levenstein were yeshivishe guys…I was very close with Rav Shach. Officers used to come on a steady basis to visit Ponevezh, Rav Shach used to always invite them to his office. Every time, he said ‘We have hakaras hatov, you are safeguarding the country and we are learning Torah in your merit.

When asked about another concern of believing the army is all-powerful, he replied, “We are not glorifying “kochi v’otzem yadi” – the army today is not [about that]. It’s davening and caring for yiddishe kindelach.

“Even the soldiers who are not frum, so many [soldiers] are real Bnei Torah, but even the others, they are all Yidden, we are supposed to love every Jew.”

“I think this reflects such a lack of self confidence…We are davening for yiddishe kinder who are dying every day. These are not our brothers?”

The Rav also addressed a possible concern that people are diverting financial support away from Yeshivas to support other causes.

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Legal Aid union approves pro-Hamas, antisemitic resolution calling for boycott of ‘apartheid’ Jewish State

 The union representing Legal Aid lawyers approved a controversial anti-Israel resolution Tuesday that calls for an economic boycott of the “apartheid” Jewish State and immediate cease-fire in Gaza — which critics condemned as pro-Hamas and antisemitic.

The resolution from the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/Local 2325 of United Auto Workers passed with 1067 votes to 570 opposed.

It passed despite the move defying the policy of its employer — the Legal Aid Society — of steering clear of taking stands on international political conflicts. 

The organization’s mission statement declares it is built on “one simple but powerful belief: that no New Yorker should be denied the right to equal justice.” 

“We seek to be a beacon of hope for New Yorkers who feel neglected -regardless of who they are, where they come from, or how they identify,” it states.

The divisive resolution calls for “an end to Israeli apartheid and the occupation and blockade of Palestinian land, sea, and air by Israeli military forces.”

The statement opposes all existing and future US military aid to Israel and endorses the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against the Jewish state.

It also backs legislation forbidding not-for-profits in New York from supporting “illegal Israeli settlements” on disputed land.

“We support the right of all Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland,” the resolution said.

The resolution never mentions or blames the terrorist group Hamas for starting the war with Israel and only refers to the Oct. 7 attack as a “violent tragedy” without mentioning the number of people Hamas killed.

It only mentions the number of people killed in Israel’s retaliatory attacks against Hamas-controlled Gaza.

The vote on the resolution was temporarily suspended after other pro-Israel union members filed a lawsuit to stop it.

A judge recently lifted a restraining order after ruling that the union had the right to proceed.

“We reject all attempts to intimidate workers for their political speech,” the union said.

Opponents within the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys union blasted the resolution as pro-Hamas.

“ALAA’s implicit justification of the barbaric acts of terrorism committed by Hamas — an internationally recognized terrorist organization — erodes any claims of advocating for justice or human rights,” Legal Aid attorney and union member Ariella Goldstein told The Post.

“The resolution appallingly condones the dehumanizing rapes, kidnapping, beheading, and murders that Hamas committed, and recorded themselves committing, on October 7,” she added.

Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, executive vice president of the NY Board of Rabbis, called the resolution antisemitic.

When you treat the Jewish State of Israel differently than everyone else, that’s antisemitic,” Potasnik, said, referring to the Legal Aid lawyers union backing the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.

“I don’t see this group or others supporting a boycott against China or Iran?” 

The Legal Aid Society, the employer of the anti-Israel lawyers, declined comment on Tuesday.

But last month the group, which relies on millions of dollars in public funding to provide legal services to the needy, slammed the resolution as “laden with coded antisemitic language and thinly veiled calls for the destruction of the State of Israel.”

“At a time when our attorneys and staff should be united in support of the people we serve, the resolution does not advance the legal interests of our clients, does not comport with our mission and values, and is divisive and hurtful,” the statement continued.

NYPD Insist Pro-Israel Demonstrator Remove Israeli Flag During Pro-Hamas Protest

 

In a tense moment amidst a pro-Palestinian demonstration at New York City’s Penn Station, Elisha Wiesel, the son of the late writer and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, was urged by NYPD officers to put away an Israeli flag as he attempted to stage a counterprotest against the hundreds-strong demonstration.

The protest, led by pro-Hamas activist group Within Our Lifetime, has been part of a series of near-daily protests that began on October 7.

Within Our Lifetime has publicly supported the attack, advocating for “whatever means necessary” to achieve their goals, without exceptions or limitations – including the murder of innocent civilians. The group has also been active in other demonstrations, including a protest against the lighting of the holiday tree at Rockefeller Center in New York. That protest, titled “Flood the tree lighting for Gaza,” references the name Hamas used for the October 7 attack, “Operation al-Aqsa Flood.”

Wiesel, in his account of the incident, said, “NYPD insisted I remove the flag, as [the] situation was getting dangerous.” He shared a video showing him draped in an Israeli flag and engaged in a confrontation with a masked demonstrator.

The NYPD made several arrests during the protest, which started at Grand Central Station and proceeded to Penn Station, including a stop at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

Participants in the demonstration marched behind a banner proclaiming, “From Gaza to Jenin: Revolution until victory.”

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