I am getting a kick out of this .... this is got to be one of the funniest "shaalois" I heard in a long time....
There is a very popular Torah newsletter in Israel that is called
"Oilam Katan" "Small World" ........
On the very front cover they have a series of questions and answers (shaalois Uh"teshuvois) in halacha and hashkafah ....
Someone writes in a question and Harav Shlomo Aviner is usually the one answering ....
For those who don't know, Harav Shlomo Aviner wrote a Sefer many years ago in response to the Satmar Rebbe, R' Yoel Teitelbaum's sefer "Al Hagilah Ve'al Hatmurah ...
The Satmar Rebbe panicked after the 6 day war in 1967 ... afraid that he would be losing his whole anti-Zionist agenda with his own Chassidim, because of the great miracles that happened during the 1967 war, which brought on an unprecedented wave of Baalei-Tesuvah ... who saw with their very own eyes, miracles.....
And so the Rebbe responded with a little book challenging the hundreds and thousands of eye-witness accounts of these miracles and basically wrote that the "miracles" were acts of the Satan which he called the "Sitra Achra."
As far as the unprecedented mass movement of Baalei Teshuvah, he dismissed it and wrote that "Shabsai Tzvi also produced a mass Baalei Teshuvah movement!"
In response, Rabbi Shlomo Aviner wrote a very scholarly thick Sefer called "Aleh Naaleh" עלה נעלה that totally eviscerated the entire premise of "Al Hagulah Ve'Al Ha"Temurah.," and R' Aviner did it with the greatest respect.
You will not be able to find this book in your local Sefarim Store...I believe Tuvia in Monsey has some copies!
You will not be able to find this book in your local Sefarim Store...I believe Tuvia in Monsey has some copies!
Back to the Newsletter:
Question:
"Does the Admar from Satmar have a Cheilik in Olam Habah Because he has separated himself (with his ideas) from the rest of the Jewish nation?"
Translated Loosely: "Does the Satmar Rebbe have a portion in the World to Come since his ideas are different from the ideas of the frum world.?"
Answer From Harav Aviner:
"He Absolutely has a Chielik in Olam Habbah ..... and You have to do Tesuvah for even asking such a question!!! "