Rabbi Kook's Greatness: for his Yahrzeit on 3 Elul by Rav Shmuel Knopfler z"l

Only rarely is the world privileged to see a man of such greatness as the icon of religious Zionism, 

HaRav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook.

In Memoriam

by Rabbi Shmuel Knopfler z"l
Written last year ....2018 

HaRav Kook ... His Personality

There have been scores of Torah giants in recent generations, but the stature of none compares to that of Rabbi Avraham Isaac HaCohen Kook, zt”l (1865 -1935). His genius was astounding - there was no field of Torah study that he had not mastered. His recall was astonishing – great scholars related that no matter what Torah subject they
discussed with him it would appear as if he had just recently learned the issue in depth.

Not only was he versed, sharp, and innovative in the arenas of Talmud and Halakha, he was at home in all areas of Jewish thought: Bible, Midrash, philosophy, and mysticism. On top of all this, he was unmatched in piety and righteousness, and his entire existence was dedicated to the service of the Creator.

Rabbi Kook was a mighty figure who fought for truth and was willing to put himself on the line for the sake of Torah justice.

It is not uncommon for extreme brilliance to result in strange
character traits, but Rabbi Kook was friendly and pleasant, so much so that all who knew him were captivated by his warm character. He was intellectual and emotional, sharp and poetic. He possessed a rich inner life, while at the same time was very active spiritually and publicly on behalf of the Torah, the nation, and the land.

That all of these talents could reside together harmoniously in one soul is itself remarkable.

The Respect of His Contemporaries

Rav Kook with Rabbi Sonnenfeld 

Three Year Old Mordechai Yavets Z”L, Killed by Car in Far Rockaway

Mordechai Yavets Z”L,  was struck and killed by a vehicle on Monday morning. He was 3-years-old.

Mordechai was struck by a vehicle on Virginia Street just after 11:00AM. 

Hatzolah paramedics rushed him to Long Island Jewish Medical center, where doctors did everything they could to stabilize him. Unfortunately, he was Niftar around an hour later.

Mordechai is the son of Yehuda and Yehudis Yavets.

The Achiezer Organization is working with authorities to ensure proper Kavod Hames is given.

Harav Hatzaddik Avraham Yitzchok Hakohein Kook z"l by DIN

I will repost an article I posted August 24, 2014 about the great Tazaddik Hador, R' Avraham Yitzchok Kook z"l
on the Yurzeit Gimmel Elul!

I would like to preface the post with the following observation:

How is it that the Chassidishe & Litvishe World took a Tzaddik, a Gaon Oilim, a deep Torah thinker and made him into a villian...... a "sheigatz.?"

How did editors and publishers take out his haskamois from their republished Seforim???

There is a joke amongst the frum heimishe world but so true!

"What is the difference between a Lubavitcher Chasid and a Satmarer Chasid?"

The difference is:

By a Lubavitcher... every "sheigatz" is a Yid...
By a Satmarer .... every Yid is a "sheigatz"

How True ...but now its the Litvisher World as well....

I want to ask my readers that attended Yeshivois and learned Shas and Poiskim a question.

Think about this?

If a Bochur, lets call him "Reuvein"  in a Bais Medrish  asks or questions a halacha in the Rambam .... and no one can answer his question ...and it now seems that the specific Halacha in the Rambam is totally obliterated by Reuvein.....

What do you think will the Rosh Yeshivah say? What will his Chavrusah say? What will his parents say?

They will say :
"Wow! What a great question? What an Illuei? What a Genius?" "Yeh ....Let's get him a great girl that will support him the rest of his life!"

Will they call him an apikoras and a heretic?

Would they call Rebbe Akiva Eiger who wrote the "Gilyan Ha'Shas" and who asked and sometimes never answered the questions that he asked on Toisfois, an apikoras? 

Was he indeed an apikoras?

Let's go back in time...
How about Toisfois questions on Rashi where Toisfois will then come up with a total different understanding of a talmudic discussion.... and say that Rashi wasn't correct ...

Were the Baalei Toisfois apikorsim?

How about the Ramban who specifically wrote his sefer on Chumash to argue with Rashi's understanding of the parsha ... and then gives a totally different novel idea on the script of the Torah ...
Was the Ramban an apikoras??

The Orach Chayim Hakodash frequently eviscerates a Rishon's understanding of a pasuk and then totally twists the pasuk to fit his own understanding ....
was the Orach Chayim Hakodosh an apikoras?

I could go on and on .... you get my drift....

Then why is someone who argues with the Satmar Shitah or proves the VaYoel Moshe wrong an apikoras????

Since Matan Torah when there was any difference of opinion amongst the Rabbis ... did anyone ever call the opposing view an "apikores!"

But here they took a Gaon Oilim, cursed him and made him into a pariah .....a sheigatz and an apikoras, all because his derech wasn't like theirs ....

This was the basic reason of the destruction of second Bais Ha'Mikdash ...... the gemarrah states that the masses were basically frum, talmeidei chachamim, but they hated each other .... they hated the guy that dressed differently, that wore a Kippah Serugah, that were a blue string in the tzizis, that dared wear a colored shirt ...
that's why Hashem had the Bais Hamikdash burned down and had us dispersed amongst the nations to learn that in Chutz Le'aaretz the goyim will consider the guy wearing "vaaseh zokin" or gold stripe "bekeshe" the same Jew as the Jew that shaves and wears a polo shirt .... to the goyim we are all Jews! 

Now see my post
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One Has to Laugh at the Satmar 1967 Prediction that in "20 Years there will no longer be Torah in Israel" 160,000 Bochrim and Kollel Guys Start the Elull Zmar

R' Yoel Teitelbaum, founder of the Satmar Chassidus, predicted in 1956 and again in 1967 that there will be "No Torah institutions in the State of Israel in 20 years."

These statements are brought down in a pamphlet called 

'שמעו דבר ה'  

which is basically a written typed transcript of a CD that comes attached to the pamphlet .....
These are "toirelach" that the late Satmar Rebbe made to dissuade his holocaust survivor chassidim from abandoning the Satmar ship!

The truth is that no one in the entire world could predict this great phenomenon ......
160,000.00 Bochrim and Kollelim learning Torah in the State of Israel ...... that's not counting 8,000 bochrim starting Yeshiva Gedoilei ...
Also not included in the 160,000 count..... are the 470,000 talmidim in the state Chareidie schools.........
All the above are supported by the Zionist State of Israel .....

The 5780 school year began in Israel on Sunday, September 1, 2019, corresponding to 1 Elul. 2.35 million students returned to state kindergartens, elementary, junior high and high schools in Israel religious and secular public school systems. The Elul zman began as well, as this year, the Hebrew and Gregorian dates coincided.

Tens of thousands of bnei torah have returned to the beis medrash, seen around Eretz Yisrael pulling their suitcases and hat boxes as bein hazmanim comes to an end.

160,000 avreichim and bochrim are reporting for duty, returning to yeshivos and kollels to strengthen Am Yisrael with their limud torah. 8,000 talmidim will enter Yeshiva Gedola, and the mesechtos being studied in the Elul zman include Kiddushim, Gittin, Baba Metzia and Makos in the general seder divided between Chevron and Ponevezh.

A sign appearing in Brisk on Sunday morning is a call for tefilos and limud for a refuah shleima for HaGaon Rav Meshulam Dovid Halevy ben Alta Hendel bsoch cholei am yisrael.

Of the total number of students in the state system, 168,000 little ones entered first grade, and 200,000 teaching staff will be undertaking the responsibility to educate the nation’s young. Israel’s newly-appointed Minister of Education, Rabbi Rafi Peretz, announced this school year will emphasize mutual responsibility and the strengthening of values.

There are 470,000 talmidim in the state chareidi kindergartens and schools, of which 35,000 entered first grade on Sunday. This system has 32,000 teaching staff.

Ohelei Yitzchak Yosef Lubavitch, the Chabad educational network in Israel, also began on Sunday, opening its 86 schools, of which there are four new one for this 5780 school year. In the Chabad network, there are 458 kindergartens (including 18 new ones), 114 first grades and 35,800 students in total.

The Ministry of Education has opened its information line to the public, 1-800-222-003.

The students will have their first day off on September 17th, elections for the 22nd Knesset. Then following days off will be for the Tishrei Yomim Tovim.

IDF Tricked Hezbollah Into Thinking They Injured an Israeli Soldier

An IDF helicopter evacuated soldiers from the northern border to Rambam Hospital in Haifa on Sunday afternoon following the firing of anti-aircraft missiles from Lebanon towards Israel by Hezbollah despite the fact that soldiers were uninjured.

The IDF wanted to create a "fog" on the Lebanese side to allow Hezbollah to flaunt its achievement and meanwhile carried out a massive assault on Hezbollah.

In Israel, it was hoped that granting an "achievement" to Hezbollah would allow the incident to end quickly and prevent a deterioration to war.

Videos showing the helicopter with the injured soldiers were distributed on social media, and about an hour after the incident an IDF spokesman officially announced that there were no casualties among IDF soldiers.

"Soldiers who arrived by helicopter were examined in the Rambam emergency room and released without medical treatment," an official hospital statement said.

After the attack and the assassination of terrorists, Prime Minister Netanyahu said: "At this moment I can announce important news - we have no casualties. 

No one was wounded – not even a scratch."

Earlier on Sunday, the IDF reported: 

"Two hours ago, a number of anti-aircraft missiles were fired from Lebanon toward an IDF base and a military vehicle in the town of Avivim. A number of hits have been confirmed. The IDF responded with artillery fire toward the source of the fire, aircrafts attacked the anti-aircraft squad."

"The IDF continues to maintain a high level of preparedness - defensive and offensive - for a wide range of scenarios. The restrictions on the civilian area have been removed, with the exception of agricultural work close to the perimeter fence."

Frum Singles furious after matchmaking site for Orthodox Jews makes profiles public

Matchmaker, matchmaker — don’t steal my dating profile!

Din: Personally, I think this "Shidduch Line" is a great idea for $100.00 a year you get as many shidduch resumes you want ...

I don't agree to what he did, which was to steal resumes and publish it without permission to the party ... but it's a great idea ..

since the traditional ways are obviously not working ..

A new service to help Orthodox Jews make love connections posted unauthorized profiles of hundreds of singles, exposing their private information to would-be suitors.

The matchmaking group, based in Far Rockaway and called ShidduchLine WhatsApp, even managed to get tax-exempt status from the IRS.

Shidduch is the Yiddish word for a match that leads to marriage.

“They certainly should not be allowed to conduct business under a charity status,” said Reena Bracha Platt, 27, a California transplant living in Israel who said her outdated profile was posted without her consent.

Platt is among those who took to Facebook to complain about the security breach, which was even reported to a religious court.

Satmar Rebbe R' Zalman Leib, Tells his Chassidim "Not to Ask Questions" About His Decision to Teach Secular Studies in His Institutions

As we wrote previously, Satmar Rebbe caved in to Board of Education demands to implement their guidelines to have secular subjects taught in Satmar moisdois ...

The subjects that will be taught will not be only basic Reading, Writing and Math, but tolerance of people that have sexual perversions ...
such as a boy identifying as a girl or vice versa and then entering a a bathroom of the opposite sex.... 

Satmar had no choice in caving in because they accept Federal and State funds and grants that add up to millions of dollars ....

They have no problem yelling and barking at Israeli schools that take funds from the government, screaming that this "shmads" Jewish children ..... (the Israeli government does not intervene in Chareidie curriculum, even though they fund them with millions of shekels.) 
But when it comes to his own institutions he grabs any government funds he can even if it means that his Moisdois Ha"Torah will now have to introduce subjects which is an anathema to Torah and Satmar mesorah,,,,he does not allow for any debate and quickly shut down any oppositions ....

It's interesting that the Rebbe cannot find it in his heart to give the Israeli Moisdois the benefit of the doubt when they take funds from the government, yet he wants us to give him the benefit of the doubt when he takes money from his government.....

Here is what he said last last Tuesday in his Rodney Street Shul:
I will translate loosely:




1) נישט פרעגן קיין קשיות.
1) No questioning our decision

2) נישט אלעס וואס מ׳טוט קען מען פארציילן פאר די גאס.
2) Not everything we do should be talked about on the streets 

3) מיר זיצן מיט עסקנים און מיר ווייסן פונקטליך וואס מ׳מעג און וואס מ׳טאר נישט.
3) We are sitting with activists that know what is permitted and what is prohibited.

4) ווער ס׳האט נישט קיין נסיון אין דעם - זאל נישט אריינרעדן.
4) One who hasn't been in out shoes so to speak, should not get involved

5) מ׳טאר נישט זיין פרומער אפילו מ׳מיינט אז מ׳פארשטייט בעסער.
5) One shouldn't be frummer even though you think you know better

6) דער רבי זי״ע איז געווען זייער שארף אויף די וועלכע האבן זיך געלאזט הערן.
6) The Rebbe (meaning R' Yoel) was very "sharp" in his response to those who voiced their opposition to his policies

ליידער איז דא א טשטוש המוחות, ס'קומען אנדערע זיי שרייען מ'איז מוחה, הע מ'שמד'ט אויס כלל ישראל, מ'מאכט פשרותף מ'פארקויפט די תשב"ר.
Unfortunately, their brains are scrambled, screaming that they must "protest" and that "we are making compromises" and that we are "selling our innocent children "

ס'איז זייער גרינג צו שרייען, 'איז זייער גרינג מוחה צו זיין, אבער מ'ארף וויסן וואו מ'רעדט.
it is very easy for them to scream, and it is very east to protest but you still have to have knowledge on what is really going on .

מ'קען נישט אלעס דערציילן ברבים, די גדולי תורה וואס טוען אלעס אדורך זענען נאך אזאנע יראי ה' ווי די מוחים! מ'האט נישט קיין אחריות, מ'פירט נישט קיין מוסדות, מ'האט נישט קיין עול פון אפאר טויזנט קינדער אויף דפלייצעס זיי זאלן גיין אויפן ריכטיגן דרך"

We cannot tell the public all what  is happening...the Gedoilei Yisrael that are working (with the BOE) are just as pious as the protesters!

The protesters have no responsibilities, they don't have to run our institutions, they don't have the responsibility of thousands of children on their shoulders to make sure they go on the straight and narrow path!

Our cousin the Israeli professor who calls to boycott the Jewish state

Why, my children ask, would our Israeli cousin be a traitor to his own country? 

by Robert Harris

In response, I try to explain about his illness, this most dangerous of hatreds, the eternal self-hate that some Jews have been infected with throughout our history.

But still, it is our family’s scandal, our shanda. 

Our cousin, an Israeli professor paid by the taxpayers of Israel, exploits his position as an “expert academician” to tour university campuses throughout the world to accuse Israel of racism and apartheid, and he even publishes articles advocating boycotts of Israel.

DIN NEW FEATURE: ZERA SHIMSHON ....... Parshas Re'eh

The Zera Shimshon, Rav Shimshon Chaim ben Rav Nachmon Michoel Nachmani, was born in 5467 (1706/1707) into an illustrious family with great Rabbinical lineage. He studied the revealed and concealed parts of the Torah by the Torah greats of his day.
He served as Rav of Modena, Pisa, Sayna and Reggio, Italy, and was recognized as a holy and pious individual, as well as a tremendous Torah scholar in all areas of Torah. He passed away on the 6th of Elul 5539 (1779).

His Seforim were named, Toldos Shimshon (The ‘Offspring’ of Shimshon) on Pirkei Avos and Zera Shimshon (The ‘Seed’ of Shimshon) on the Parshi’os of the Torah. 

In his introduction, he explains that since his only son had died during his lifetime, he wrote his Seforim to perpetuate his own memory after his passing.

The following is his passionate request to learn his works.

“I implore of you with ten terms of supplication to choose from my Chiddushim (novella) the piece that finds favor in your eyes, for your learning will sooth my soul etc...
“This righteousness will stand by you forever – to ‘eat’ in this world, and be satiated in the next. In this merit, Hashem will repay you with children, health and sustenance.

“...and now my brothers and friends etc. do a true kindness, and with your eyes you will see children and grandchildren surrounding your table, houses filled with all that is good, wealth and honor will not cease from your children...”

Zera Shimshon - Re'eh

איש כמתנת ידו כברכת ה' וגו' אשר נתן לך )טז' יז')

Everyone according to what he can give, according the blessing that Hashem etc. gives you (16:17)

The Zera Shimshon asks - why does the passuk repeat itself, saying that a person should give according to what he can afford and then reiterating, according the blessing that Hashem gave him, as well?

 Why, at the beginning of the passuk is the commandment stated in a general way (according to what 'he' can give) and at the end of the passuk the commandment is more direct, speaking to 'you' (according the blessing that Hashem etc. gives 'you')?

The Zera Shimshon explains that the passuk is speaking to two different classes of people. 

The first group is the people who were only given by Hashem enough money to make it through life. 

The second group are those that were given wealth, possessions and honor, way beyond what they need to make it through life.

Being that Hashem obligated himself to give people enough to live, as the passuk says (Tehillim 136:25, 145:16), "who gives bread to all flesh", the people who barley make it, are not considered so indebted to Hashem. The other group though, are considered 'borrowers' and they are deeply indebted to Hashem for all the extra he has given them.

The first part of the passuk is directed at the first group of people and it refers to them by the title"ISH"
This title we find used when referring to someone that is an aristocrat (see Rus 1:3). 

Although this group of people are poor, the Torah refers to them by this title since they are not indebted as their wealthy counterparts. They therefore are likened to aristocrats, not indebted. 

Nevertheless, the Torah only asks of them to give - according to what they can give, since they aren't men of means.

The second part of the passuk - according the blessing that Hashem etc. gives you, is addressing the second group of people. These people are indeed recipients of the blessing of Hashem and are greatly indebted to Him.

With this, the Zera Shimshon explains the difference in terminology between the two groups, with second group being spoken to in a more direct manner ('you'). 

When a person borrows from someone, the lender makes sure to write down the name of the borrower and recognizes him by name. This is why the second group is addressed in a direct manner, 'you', since this group is written in the Heavenly ledger as borrowers and their names are recognized as those that are indebted. They therefore, are expected to give according to how much they have been lent by Hashem.

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The New Har Hamnuchot Bais Ha'Chayim ..... UNDERGROUND!!!

Under a mountain on the outskirts of Jerusalem, 

workers are completing three years of labor on a 

massive subterranean necropolis comprised of a 

mile (1.5 kilometers) of tunnels with sepulchers for interring the dead.

Up above, the Har Hamenuchot Cemetery dominates the 

hillside overlooking the main highway leading into Jerusalem 

from Tel Aviv. 

But in October, the cemetery’s management plans to open the 

first section of a sprawling catacomb complex which, when completed, will provide 23,000 gravesites for an increasingly crowded country.

“People will die probably forever,” said Arik Glazer, chief 

executive of Rolzur Tunneling, the company building the tunnel tombs, “so you have to get space for that.”

Land is in short supply in Israel, and Jewish and Muslim burial customs require interring the dead in the ground and prohibit cremation. The hilltop cemetery is almost at capacity, with 

nearly a quarter million graves. The first underground section opening in October will have capacity for 8,000. The remaining sections are slated to open in the coming years.

Like other increasingly crowded metropolises, Tel Aviv has embraced vertical cemetery structures to accommodate 

growing demand, but now Israel is looking for solutions below ground.

Even in the blazing summer heat, the labyrinthine vaults 

maintain their steady year-round temperature of 23 degrees 

Celsius (73 degrees Fahrenheit).

The limestone walls are lined four-high with tombs that 

resemble small Japanese capsule hotels. Giant flame-hued polyhedron light fixtures designed by German artist Yvelle 

Gabriel dangle at intersections between the avenues and streets deep in the mountain.

The entire project cost an estimated $50 million and took just

 over three years to complete. The tunnels take up just 5% of the total subterranean area of the mountain available for future 

tombs, Glazer said.

Part of the inspiration behind this project was the ancient 

Jewish custom of cave burials found at sites around the Holy 

Land, from the UNESCO heritage site of Beit Shearim near 

Haifa, to rocky hillsides around Jerusalem.

“The basic blueprints for this project were the cemetery at Beit Shearim,” said Adi Alphandary, head of Rolzur’s business development. Those catacombs, active between the second and fourth centuries, were recognized by the United Nations as a 

World Heritage Site in 2015.

Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist Amit Reem said that families would inter the deceased’s remains in the catacombs,

 then seal the door with a rock for eight months.

“When they opened the door of the cave, inside the cave was 

only the skeleton with no flesh,” Reem said. The bones were 

then collected and often placed in stone boxes, known as 

ossuaries, inside the cave chamber.

While the modern-day burial chambers will simply be sealed 

with a grave marker, Hananya Shahor, executive director of the Jewish burial association in Jerusalem, said that Orthodox 

rabbis they consulted said the sprawling site is “100% 

acceptable according to Jewish tradition.”

“We are almost sure that people will like this way much, much

 more than the old systems of burial,” he said.

IDF releases report documenting Iranian efforts to build up Lebanese terror organization's guided missile arsenal.

Watch this video and shiver.... read the article and cry...
To think that the Coward Ezra Friedlander in an op-ed supported the Iran Deal ...

Remember that R' Aron Teitelbaum, Satmar Rebbe supported the Iranians and had his naive Satmar cowards send letters to their congressmen to support the Iran Deal!!

The IDF on Thursday revealed details on Hezbollah’s Iranian-backed precision guided missile project, days after drone attacks attributed to Israel targeted a site allegedly used by Hezbollah to manufacture missiles.

According to the IDF report released Thursday afternoon, the precision missile project was first launched six years ago, following Iranian transfers of missiles to Lebanon via Syria.

“Between 2013- 2015, under the auspices of the Syrian civil war, Iran began its efforts to transport ready-to-use precision guided missiles from Iran, via Syria, to the terror organization Hezbollah in Lebanon,” the IDF claims.

Proof of Divine Inspiration of the Scriptures

Research shows that the Bible is literally filled with remarkable linguistic nuances and unexplainable “coincidences.” 

Prof. Haim Shore, from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, has researched into the science behind these peculiar biblical intricacies. Described below are a small handful of his fascinating discoveries that relate to the question of divine inspiration of the Bible.

Let us state from the outset that Professor Shore is a self-described non-observant Jew. In an interview with Dr. Rivkah Lambert, Shore said of himself:

As a scientist, my only motivation was to reveal the truth, based on statistical analysis, based on real quantitative data. I have not tried to prove that the Torah is divine or any other such objective.

Here are a few of the coincidences Shore found in his research.

Letters in the Hebrew alphabet, like Roman numerals, have a numeric value. 

A "Storm is Brewing In Rockland" Goyim Going Crazy That Chassidim Are Taking Over Rockland

New York state’s top prosecutor Wednesday night issued a blistering rebuke of a “deeply disturbing” video posted on the Rockland County Republican Party’s Facebook page that portrays proposed housing development for the Hasidic Jewish community as a “threat.”

The Video was removed! 

How Many Lashes Would Omar Have Gotten If she Still Lived In Somalia?

Omar and her White Boyfriend

A Washington, DC, mom says her political-consultant husband left her for Rep. Ilhan Omar, according to a bombshell divorce filing obtained by The Post.

Dr. Beth Mynett says her cheating spouse, Tim Mynett, told her in April that he was having an affair with the Somali-born US representative — and that he even made a “shocking declaration of love” for the Minnesota congresswoman before he ditched his wife, alleges the filing, submitted in DC Superior Court on Tuesday.

The physician, 55, and her 38-year-old husband — who has worked for left-wing Democrats such as Omar and her Minnesota predecessor, Keith Ellison — have a 13-year-old son together.

Day Yoimie Snippets .... Temurah 30,31,32, 33, & 34,

A great opportunity for the entire family, to share some thoughts on the daf ...  the  family feels united by discussing what the head of the house is studying.
I try to break it down so that everyone can understand it .... 

You can copy and print this without my consent, since Torah belongs to all of us..... 

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Page 30 Mesectas Temurah

"The Exchange of a Dog" 

The Torah forbids the donation of the proceeds from the sale of a dog to the Beit Hamikdash. 

For example, if an individual acquired an ox in exchange for a dog, that ox would not be fit to be offered as a korban (sacrifice) on the miz’be’ach.

Does the same law hold true regarding donations to a synagogue? 

Is it permissible to utilize an item in a synagogue ritual that had been acquired in exchange for a dog? 

Both Rabbi Yerucham, one of the great Rishonim, as well as the Rema (Rabbi Moshe Isserles) ruled it was prohibited to perform rituals in a synagogue with any item

acquired in exchange for a dog.

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Attacker knocks Benny Friedman's Father-in-law's teeth out with rock in Crown Heights

A 64-year-old rabbi was punched and hit in the face with a paving stone — knocking out some teeth — while on a morning walk through a Crown Heights park, cops and relatives said.

Rabbi Avraham Gopin, father-in-law of popular Hasidic singer Benny Friedman, was taking his usual stroll through Lincoln Terrace Park on Tuesday when a man threw a stone toward him just around 7:40 a.m, according to cops.

Gopin, who was wearing a yarmulke, confronted the random man — prompting him to cock back and punch the Jewish leader in the face, cops said.

The two struggled, and at one point, the unknown attacker hit Gopin with the paving stone, according to police.

The assailant took off, and Gopin went to Maimonides Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition, but missing a few of his front teeth. He also suffered a broken nose and lacerations on his body, according to Friedman.

The Chassidic vocalist, who also lives in Brooklyn, described the entire ordeal in a series of tweets on Tuesday afternoon — saying the attacker “had murder on his mind.”

“This morning, at 7:45am, my father in law went for his morning walk, like he always does. Suddenly a man started yelling at him, and started chasing him, holding a huge brick,” Friedman said. “My FIL says there was no question this man had murder on his mind. My father in law tried to defend himself…Thank Gd, all things considered, my father in law is doing ok. Thank you Councilman @ChaimDeutsch for your help and concern. We need safer communities. Where I come from in Minnesota, this would be front page headlines. But here in Brooklyn this is just the latest event.”

No arrests have been made in connection to Gopin’s assault. The NYPD was investigating the attack as a possible hate crime.

“Has it become too dangerous for openly religious Jewish men to walk the streets of NYC?” tweeted Councilman Deutsch.

A number of Jewish residents have been attacked in Brooklyn over the past year.

Police arrested two teens — and took two others into custody — earlier this month in connection to a string of attacks on Hasidic men in Williamsburg. The victims were between the ages of 56 and 71.

Palestinian Finds Out His Grandmother Was Jewish So He Converts And Becomes Dati

Satmar Civil war in Bnei Brak Continues: Satmar Guys Throw Garbage On Their Own Rosh Yeshivah While He Was Dancing With A Torah ! Satmar Cancels Yurzeit of Rabbi Yoel..

As we told you on many different occasions there is now a full blown civil war in Bnei Brak within the Satmar Ahroinie faction!

The Rosh Yeshivah of Satmar in Bnei Brak is R' Chaim Tzvi Meisels, R' Aron Teitelbaum's sister's son.... a nephew!

He was celebrating a Hachnoses Sefer Torah, in Satmar Bais Medrish in Bnei Brak, and was dancing with the brand new Sefer Torah!
But that didn't stop one of the Satmars who hates his guts to dump a garbage bin in his path barely missing him !

There are other videos where you can see  a bunch of his opposition chassidim surround R' Meisels dancing very tightly around him ... so that he could barely move, then all hell breaks loose and they begin to push and shove each other ...
See bottom right ....

 See Poster Below cancelling Satmar Yurzeit 

because of the internal fights

In Yerushalyim "Yeshiva Bochrim" Bored Because of "Bein Hazmanim" Beat the Hell Out of a Frum Cellphone Storekeeper

There is a frum guy trying to make a living on Bar Ilan Street in Yerushalyim selling Cellphones and other phone paraphernalia ...

He has been there quite awhile and makes his living from guess who?

You guessed it ... he makes a living from the Yeshivishe world who need smartphones for business etc ....

But these days of Av,  the Yeshivah bochrim are bored out of their holy Torah minds because its Bein Hazmanim .... and because of the latest tragedies, most Roshei Yeshiva warned and prohibited their students from swimming, going on hikes etc ...

What is there to do ...???

So someone came out with a great idea ...
"Let's beat the crap out of another Jew!" .....