Reb Aron Soloveitchik on Torah coming to America

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מקרב זיין אידישע קינדער, אפילו אהן א יארמולקע!

דער אלעמען באקאנטער "אחינו" ארגיניזאציע, וועלכע איז באקאנט פון די אנאנסען אין די צייטונגען, און נישט פון קירוב ארבעט, האט לעצטענס ארויסגעשיקט פאר'ן היימישען עולם דוברי אידיש דעם קונטרס, ווי זיי פראבירען צו ווייזען אז עס ליגט א פליכט אויף יעדן איינעם צו מקרב די פארווארפענע אחינו בני ישראל צו תורה און מצוות. די מארקעטינג חכמים זענען לעצטנס קלוג געווארען און הייבט אהן מאכען אלעס אויף אידיש אויך, ווייל מ'זעהט איין אז פון דארט וועט קומען די ישועה. פון אנאנסען אין די ענגלישע צייטונגען וועט מען נאך נישט געהאלפען ווערן. דא אין דעם קונטרס ווערן געענטפערט שו"ת בענין קירוב רחוקים וכדו' פון הגאון ר' גרשון איידלשטיין שליט"א, ראש ישיבת פוניבז' אין בני ברק ארה"ק ת"ו. אויפ'ן 2טע זייט זעהט מען גאר אן אינטערעסאנטע עובדא וועלכע איז פארגעקומען מיט הגאון בעל חזון איש זצ"ל, וועלכע האט געהייסען בחורים און אינגעלייט פארמאכען די גמרות און גיין ראטעווען אידישע קינדער פון שמד און זיך אנטוהן ווי פרייע "חילונים" אינגאנצען, אהן יארמולקעס! אבי מ'זאל ראטעווען אידישע קינדער און זיי געבן אן אמת'ער אידישע חינוך. נאר וואס? די וואס זענען נישט מסכים מיט'ן גאנצען ענין פון מקרב זיין אידן וועלן שוין זאגען אז הרב איידלשטיין איז נישט אנגענומען ווייל ער האט לעצטנס געזאגט אז די אידישע סאלדאטען אין די ישראל ארמיי זענען נישט ווייניגער ווי די בני תורה!

לייענט און שטוינט

The only pure Torah in Bene Beraq is Satmar

so said Reb Aron of Satmar while consecrating a shul there today

Click on the link for the story. All other Torah in BB are tainted and impure, because they are funded by the heretic Zionists. So all of Bnei Beraq is standing in the merit of Satmar there. But the fools will keep on giving him kovod in their newspapers, and they'll tell us that he's a man of peace. Either out of inferiority feelings or just plain fear. Is it raining here?

a timely message...

.....רעדן אין לערנען

Click on the player above for a conversation between the Rav, RYBS of Boston, and an unknown Rosh Yeshiva/Rov from Eretz Yisroel. Any information on this person would be greatly appreciated. About halfway through you can hear the Rosh Yeshiva speak about what the Lubavitcher Rebbe told him about learning "Kabbalah" in his Yeshiva...

הלכות ת"ת treat

I must tell you I'm quite shocked by some of the responses here with regards to the Tzaddik of B'Kerestur. I never realized how great the machloh is today - the lack of emunas tzaddikim. And we're not talking about today's gutte yidden either, we're talking about people who weren't born with a silver sppon in their mouths, but made a name for themselves the hard way, by helping others and saving lives. I'm stunned at how some of the same people who supposedly stand up for "real Torah values" can so nonchalantly make such disparaging remarks that even a goy in his time - as well as twenty years later - would not make! Now, I'm not gonna stand here and tell you to take a minyan and ask mechilleh at his resting place; I'll leave that for you and your collective conscience to bear. Somehow we decided that greatness in Torah should be the only measuring stick to see whether or not there is tzidkus as well. I can bring you this: most of you - even the skeptics would agree about his d'veykus to the Eybershter, besides for that fool who compared to the TA"Y Rebbe. Interestingly enough, the Alter Rebbe, Rav Schneur Zalman of Liadi, author of the Tanya and the Shulchan Aruch HaRav, says otherwise. In his opus primum, which was warmly approbated by the greats of his day, the Alter Rebbe brings proof from the Chassidim HoRishonim, who would spend some 9 hours a day thinking about G-d, and connecting to him ביראה ואהבה עזה ודביקות אמיתית, proving to us that not only was this not bittul torah, but this service of Hashem was greater than the study of Torah! Is that good enough for you all?!

Start from Halochoh Hey and on.

רוה"ק without Torah cannot be!!

We know about VeLo Am Ho'Oretz Chossid, but can a Tzaddik be a Tzaddik/Baal Mofes without being a Talmid Chochom? Surprisingly enough that seems to be the general concensus when it comes to Reb Shayelle, sadly enough, and that point is addressed in the book. They try hard to disspel it as a myth, and bring several stories to counter that opinion, saying that it was a chelek of his hiding his greatness in Torah and Avodah, and that from time to time he would remind people of his proficiency in Torah, just so that they remember... Despite that it seems like the general opinion did stem from the fact that he would read from Noam Elimelech during tishen, instead of saying divrei torah like some other Rebbes. During the poezer (recess) between Shacharis and Mussaf on Rosh Hashonoh, when other Rebbes would go to the Mikveh and learn Zohar etc. Reb Shayelle would cut cake and pour schnapps into cups so that hungry Jews would have what to eat... And believe it or not, but they say that his final - or at least one of his final - request(s) before he passed away was to tell his hoizgezint that they should prepare lots of food for all the people that will soon come to the levaya, so that they not go hungry... No wonder they say in the name of the Minchos Elozor that he said on Reb Shayelle that אויף בארשט און קארטאפל איז קיינער נישט קיין מתנגד.....

So when I said yesterday that the Petrushener Rov - a Pressburger Talmid - belittles Reb Shayelle's prowess in Torah I may have singled him out unfairly. We can infer the same opinion from the Munkacser Rov, and I see some of you heard the same thing from your antescedents. I'm very bothered by this, especially when it comes from friends, not "Misnagdim," because it perpetuates the myth that Chassidim can't and don't learn. After all, here we have this Rebbe of thousands of Chassidim, or at least admirers, who could see MiSof HaOlam VeAd Sofo, Kipshuto, who could send wild dogs to hold back a wagon of his Chossid and keep his Chossid out of harm's way, who could keep the Budapest express train from leaving until his Chossid got on that train , and he had difficulty with a "shtikkel tosfos?!" So עולמו של אבא seems to bavoren this question and says that the reason he was zoche to that level of ruach haKodesh was because he was nizhar in Cheyt Hayodua and because he gave away all his money while still a MaSHB"K in Liska. What also is baffling is that Reb Hershelle Lisker is the one that took him out of Yeshivah - after Reb Shayelle's mother sent him there to learn - and made him his MaSHBaK! His mother heard about it and wanted to take him home, but RHL convinced her that he'd lose nothing by becoming his Meshamesh, and she agreed. So did he remove him from Yeshivah because learning was not his "thing?" Can one be a Tzaddik without being well-versed in Torah?!


The Minchas Elozor of Munkacs in Marienbad (perhaps)