חרדים ה"מבטלים" הג' שבועות

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In the interest of full disclosure I will say that the author is one Reb Yitzchok Brand, a Rov who goes up to har haBayis, as we see from the picture below, center. I do not condone what he does, nor is this an approbation of the above pamphlet. The topic has been getting lots of publicity lately, with Daf Yomi just passing the end of Kesubos, where the topic is discussed. Many maggidei shiur will stop and discuss the whole topic, VaYoel Moshe and all. All of them do it with the greatest respect for the author, despite disagreeing.

ראשעשיווע, זאל געזונט זיין, מיר ווארפען זיך אונטער אייך! and other links of interest

ראיון חג ביתד עם הגר"ש אלתר
this Weberman had a different kind of connection with the Rebbe
the Chazon Ish's nephew sells a condo in NYC for $30 mil
Shavous means flowers in BP shuls
The Sweet/Salty Gefilte Fish "line"

אן אלטער אידל פון 106 יאר and other Wednesday Links

magyar bor küzdelem!
ex-ChzonIsh'nik Tuvia Tenenboim warns us about NGOs and the Red Cross
UWS minyan for commuters
What about all the MO Kids texting on Shabbos?!
Ofra turns 40
renewed campaign against the טמא'נע מאגאזינען און לייען מאטעריאל

Munkacs profiles אד"ל

See pages 8-11. It looks like they bought into it, hook, line and sinker. All it takes is buying the Satmar Newspapers over the years and you're sold on what they sell you. I would expect the publishers of this journal to know better. But I guess since Minchas Elozor writes a nice letter to him... and since he was a zealot like the ME, it's all good. Whatever.

  Haichud - Beis Sivan 5775

OWSEI SHULAUWM BIMRAWMUV

Bentzion Weberman was toastmaster for an event featuring Rav Kook, and other fascinating links

BZW was the Williamsburg lawyer who found one Avrohom Ber Levin in a Catskills hotel and liked what he saw. He made sure all his kids knew about this man. He was a zealot, you might say. He didn't subscribe to the new style of Judaism being developed in America. But yet, he did what the headline here says he did. Well, I guess you could excuse it by saying that the event wasn't for RAYK himself, to honor him or anything, but for the Yeshivos in Europe. But we all know that a TRUE zealot would today not attend an event also attended by an adversary and ideological opponent such as the Yaffer Rov. Or maybe a true zealot could see the forest despite the trees and not be distracted by trivial matters such as who is attending. You might say just like RAYK himself, who left the comfort of the Holy Land to travel to the US to save the Yeshivos in Europe.

Click Here for an old newspaper clipping
In Boro Park don't distribute snuff during the Rov's derasha
Weberman/Schorr wedding

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"... אפילו כל ה"אונגארישע ספרים

I don't usually like to post such clippings, simply because it seems like we have something to prove. But the "Ungarishe Seforim" line is what grabbed my attention. Ungarishe Seforim are basically scorned upon by their Polish and Russian counterparts. The Litvaks goes without saying. Other than the Chasam Sofer and a few others, of course. Most Geonim wouldn't bother with the Ungarishe Seforim, it's a waste of their time. But the Rebbe knew that תורה היא וללמוד אני צריך. There is a story of a Jew who met the Rebbe in Yechidus and was asked where he learned in Europe. The man foolishly dismissed the question, telling the Rebbe, איר האט מסתמא נישט געהערט פון אים, his name was Reb Shimon Greenfeld of Semihaly. To which the Rebbe responded, MaHarSHaG? He brings the Alter Rebbe in his Tshuvos some 77 times!

Tuesday Links

Rabbi Avraham Aron Price z'tl (1900-1994)
Fole Wilschanski's Holocaust Testimony (click link)
Rymanow to Kenosha, WI. Hear Manny Chulew's story
Mitch Morgenstern, G7, tells us about Kotzk
Rakeffet's talking about the Rebbe's wedding now

להבין מצות אהבה תקס"ד, מוגה מכתב יד מעתיק מכ"ק אדמו"ר הזקן רבי שניאור זלמן זצוקללה"ה נבג"מ זי"ע

Shalom Uvracha, please find attached the Maamar Lehavin Mitzvas Ahava from the Alter Rebbe Part One with Chassidus Metzuyenes. This is a special maamar on Ahava with a connection to Matan Torah. 

  להבין מצות אהבה חלק א

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Sadigerrer Rebbe sowing Ruchnius in the ד"לי camp - and other links that may be of interest

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The Dati Le'umi people are thirsting for inspiration. They're wired for Chassidus, often times much more than Bnei Berakkers. Looks like it's not all Chabad or Breslov either. They'll go anywhere they're accepted. From Toldos Aron to Kretchnif and everything in between. The Sadigerrer Rebbes have a long-standing tradition of having many of these people in their midst, from the old country to Tel Aviv.

R' Shlomo Aviner on his philosophical opponents

They're also pushovers, these very accepting Dati Le'umi people, if you ask me. Why do they turn the other cheek to these who deny their existence and make them into evil heretics? I assume for the same reason they cried on the shoulders of those who banished them from their homes in GK some 10 years ago. I guess the messianic form of Zionism they preach does it to them. It robs them of their self-esteem and self-worth. It teaches them that they deserve to be stepped on and spit at. That's the only reason I could come up with.

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Chaim Dalfin's latest work - and other items that may pique your interest

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די חתונה פון ליפא דייטש צו אילת השחר בובליל
Chassidic culture or American greed?
A response to an earlier article article in NY Magazine. It seems like every wayward teenager now looks to make a name for him or herself by trying to make his or her people look bad. If they can't dredge up some accusation of abuse, then we're racists and worse.  And we plot and scheme how to shaft the goyim. Which is what the initial piece, which the above piece seems to be contesting, is all about. Crown Heights must be real proud of Ms. U.... NOT.[That didn't used to happen in the old days. You didn't spit like that in the well you drank from.]
R' Dovid Lifshitz (Suvalker) & Zipporah Yoselovich
Eli Fischer meets the Dejer Rebbe in, of all places, Dej!

POTD - Williamsburg, יע"א

There are at least two ways to look at this: One, that the system there is באנקראט and this is the last cry of a wounded animal who knows his time is up. Two, the beginning of a flareup of hostilities. Yes, times are different, and Williamsburg of today is not that of 1983. But at the same time, all it takes is a few rabblerousers to cause a divide and ruin a good thing. Lubavitch has been active around Williamsburg for a while now, just as Breslov is. So what caused the sudden rearing of the ugly head now? נאר איין ג-ט ווייסט. They have attacked Reb Yoel Kahan verbally, all the while spewing hatred and vitriol. Most people see these fools for what they are, and distance themselves from them. They're the same ones who demonstrate against anything else that moves in Willi. Yet, some people will say that the organizers of shiurim and farbrengens there should keep a lower profile, not because we need to give in to terror, but because of the hatred against Chabad and the Rebbe that they preach on bullhorns.

Time will tell.

when Lag BaOmer came around it was time to play that game

Like the song goes... Except that sometimes, and with some people, we needn't wait till Lag BaOmer to play. We can play all year round. I'd thought that I was long past worrying or criticizing poses such as these, but I guess not. You never get over some things. גם על הדיין נראה לענ"ד שקצת רחמנות עליו אז ער דארף דאס מיטמאכען. ער איז דאך א איד וואס איז שייך צו לערנען. אבער ער האט דאך אים מכתיר געווען, דארף ער היינט "געניסען" פון די פירות.

האט איר אמאל געהערט פון רעב כאים סאלאווייטשיק, דער בריסקער ראוו?

דא קענט איר לייענען איבער אים

פנימיות התורה לכבוד ל"ג בעומר תשע"ה

היום יום י"ח אייר, ל"ג בעומר

 אצל אדמו"ר האמצעי הי' ל"ג בעומר מיו"ט המצויינים. מען פלעגט ארויסגעהן אויפ'ן פעלד, ער פלעגט זיך ניט וואשען, אבער נעהמען משקה, וואס מצד הבריאות האט ער עס ניט געטארט. מען האט דעמאלט געזעהן א סך מופתים. דאס רוב מופתים איז געווען בנוגע קינדער. און א גאנץ יאהר האט מען געווארט אויף ל"ג בעומר.

  Mamar Rabbi Benaah

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זיבען טויט און דרייסיג פארוואונדעט, היל"ת, אין מירון אין תרע"א

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זאל דער אייבערשטער שומר ומציל אלע אידישע קינדער

An interview with the recently deceased HaRav Yehuda Aryeh Treger zt"l of Wilrijk, Belgium's Yeshivas Eitz Chajim

Rabbi Treger "Life Is Strange" Interview from Isaac Hertz on Vimeo.

In case you missed it; י"ג אייר was our 10th anniversary

10 years. It's a chunk of life. And for 10 years I've been writing. Making friends, enemies, admirers. Bringing you the material you've come to love and expect. Each piece may not be so much work, and often times, especially those long megillos, were quite long, but when you add it all together ----- wow!