My dear friends;
I'm sorry for doing this, for airing our "dirty laundry" here in public, and in English yet! but this charade has to stop. This week's meeting with the
Satmar Rebbe is only one example of the exclusionary tactics being used by the organizers of the Internet event on כ"ח אייר, הבעל"ט. You can choose not to believe what I write here, if it makes you feel good, but I know it to be
1000% true. Many efforts were made to get the organizers to include
Lubavitch in this
asifa. They were all rejected. For all kinds of supposed reasons. All people involved got the run-around, and the end result was that we got the message. Even the
Skulener Rebbe said it has nothing to do with him; "איך בין אן אלטער איד און מען שלעפט מיר ארום". Those were his words. Even supposed friends of
Lubavitch that are involved could do nothing.
Lubavitch was not wanted here. Apparently some of the organizers, or do we say "THE" organizer from Gateshead/Lakewood, thinks that it's his
klal yisroel and he decides who's in and who's not. And this week they made it perfectly clear to the
Satmar Rebbe of KJ that they don't want
Lubavitch there. That they're not part of
Klal Yisroel, to paraphrase
R'
Malkiel Kotler. This is a
kinus for part of
klal yisroel, not
klal yisroel. Not even all of the Ultra-Orthodox.
In case I wasn't clear enough, here's what happened:
A delegation that included the
Skulener Rebbe, one of his sons,
R'
Matisyahu Salomon, R'
Malkiel Kotler and the
Viener Rov/
Rebbe of Williamsburg went to the see the
Satmar Rebbe of KJ this week. I think it was Monday night. They went there to convince him to sign on to the big Internet gathering. They need him, because if he doesn't sign on then his people won't go, and that means thousands of empty seats at Citifield. (which is normal there, from what I understand...) He doesn't want to go or send his people because he deals with the issue in his own way, he doesn't need some
darshan for ladies (no offense) tell him what he should do to keep his kids safe. And most of all, if he doesn't call the gathering, he's not going. He doesn't play second fiddle to nobody. So he comes up with a lame excuse about 1866 Hungary, which everybody knows he doesn't believe, but they can't tell him that, because, you know, it isn't respectful. But how does he make that point? He asks them why one segment of
klal yisroel, several thousand Jews with black hats,
Lubavitch, namely, why they're not invited, why they haven't been asked to sign on to the
kol korehs and get their students and fathers to come? So supposedly RMK said something like "they're not part of Klal Yisroel; that even though you
daven in
Chabad in Palm Springs I would rather
daven B'
Yechidus if I was in that situation." So the SR used that to tell them, that just like he does that because he has a
mesorah from his
zeide and from the late
Ponovizher Rosh Yeshivah, so too does he have a
mesorah from his
zeides. And his
mesorah goes back to 1866 Hungary, not 1946 Brooklyn. (could we have expected him to stand up and condemn that statement?...) And this is what we call "poetic justice." You
Litvaks thought you were the ultimate guardians of Jewry? the
Satmar Rebbe turned the tables on you and told you what he really thinks of your clean-shaven,
sheitel wearing,
Agudah-voting sorry selves.
I know, I know, it's
Chabad's fault. They isolated themselves. Whatever.
And they're wondering if they should attend...
And they speak about
Achdus?!
........מחרימים עדה קדושה
אלע, אלע, אלע
