רבי ברוכ'ל מונקאטשער
G-d makes us find things even when we aren't searching for them. Case in point: Friday's trip to the mall. I thought I was buying a Tallis Koton for my son, but the price for a wool size 16 Chabad was over budget. So I went upstairs and looked at books instead. "I'll get it in BP or CH," I said. There's no way I'm paying those prices here. Which may make you wonder: why get a wool Tallis Koton for a little kid when cotton is just as good and children are only mechuyav in chinuch anyway? But we take pride in our devotion to mitzvos, even when we're young, and even in 90+ degrees. I remember fondly the basketball games in the Yeshivishe camps, where many of the fine the Bnei Torah would play without Tzitzis and I would wear my five pound size 30 extra long wool ones. It instilled in me a pride I wear till this very day. That I was part of a very unique and devoted group, one that took pride in its traditions and in its devotion to Hashem and his mitzvos.
Back to the books. I was looking for something good to read. A friend had recommended the biography on Reb Aron Cohen, the Rosh Yeshiva of Chevroner Yeshivah in Geulah who was prematurely taken from us many years ago while still in his prime. He told me there were some really good pictures, you know, ones that Chassidim laugh at and wonder why they didn't censor them. I figured I had seen them all by now, whether in the biography of Reb Simcha Zissel Broyde, or in Reb Meir (Paritcher) Chodosh's biography, so when I didn't see it I wasn't disappointed, I just looked for something else to buy. Nothing else really piqued my interest; it was more of the same old stuff. Until a little book caught my eye. Could it be? That here in this store that doesn't sell Uncle Moishy DVDs, and chooses its Chabad books very carefully, that they would have a book of this caliber?! I checked the author's name again, and checked the title. There was no mistake, it was THE book!
No, I'm talking about MOAG, I'm talking about שוחרי השם בהרי הקרפטים, by Dezso Schoen, aka דוד שן, who survived the Ghettos and deportations and made it to Israel. The book is controversial because it tells it like it was when it came to Hungary/Carpathia and the goings on there from the time of the Yismach Moshe to the time it ended well over 100 years later. It gives you a very colorful description of his attachment to Chassidus, how it was a "forced" visit to the Chozeh of Lublin that got him involved in the first place. How the dayan in Ujhel accused him in a sefer that the YM gave an Haskomoh to of being a corrupt, money hungry Rov, who despite once being a Torah giant in Galicia sold his soul to the כת and became a shyster who sells amulets to the unknowing masses. The "taynes" are all there, the late davening, the abandonment of Gemoroh for Kabbalah, the excessive drinking. It's the same thing, only played by different characters in a different period. Nothing can be more reassuring than that in today's world where clueless people think they're standing up for Torah when they attack me and my Rebbe.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 207 of 207the misnagdim are obsessed with hespedim they live for that
"Let's put it this way: When you care that someone wrote and talked the way people on this blog wrote about Rav Shach, the Chazon Ish, Rav Chaim Wysoker and other greats"
The only gedolim that were denigrated on this blog site as far as I can see was Rav Shach by the ill famed Arthur and the Lubavitcher Rebbi by you.The Chazon Ish was not denigraded at all.Yes, there was a discussion as to whether the Lubavitcher Rebbe spoke ill of him or not.As to Rav Chaim Wysoker there may have have been one individual who said something that perhaps can be described as offensive but that was only one individual.Otherwise all that was said by a number of posters is that they were not familiar with him.
You however come onto a Lubavitch oriented blog site blasting away at the Lubavitcher Rebbe,Lubavitcher Chassidim and Lubavitch in general to many times to count.Do you really expect a medal of honor for this?You accuse everyone of bad mouthing gedolim yet you do so more then anyone else in your incessant rantings against the Rebbe.You must be suffering from obsessive compulsive syndrome and a glutton for punishment.
"May the real moshiach comes, and if you are zoche to see him, you will see the emes."
With your constant demonizing of others on this site what makes you think with a certainty that YOU will be zoche to see Moshiach?
>>the Emes is not convenient especially for a non chosid,
Don"t blame lubavitch for me, I never stepped foot in a Chabad Yeshiva
You are so removed from emes, it is insulting for you to even use the word.
"the misnagdim are obsessed with hespedim they live for that"
I would say"the misnagdim are obsessed with hespedim they die for that"
anon3
I did not mean to denigrate him. I am sure he is a respectable person. My point was that you are comparing the words of someone who is a laymen, albeit a very respectable one, vis a vis a Rosh Yeshiva (who also was in Shangcahy, etc). Nisht nohr dehm, those views weren't only an expression R'Chaim's, but of many chashuvim who not only were tremendous lomdim, but were formidable baley mussor, something you don't see these days, layder.
"did you follow the sinas yisroel, ignorance and Chutzpa of the Shoite Vegas Ruach "Maybe" ?"
Ehy, if you were listening, I don't have all the simaney shoyteh, unless you have a different understanding of 'bitul'. V'Dal
Tzig
Why was that omitted, because it portrayed our version of Shangchay or because I was aplologetic for calling him the butcher?
Maybe,You said,
"My point was that you are comparing the words of someone who is a laymen, albeit a very respectable one, vis a vis a Rosh Yeshiva (who also was in Shangcahy, etc)."
Were not talking lomdus here.Were talking about whether there were shinanigins going on in the distribution of vaad hatzolah moneys.On the contrary. I would think that that the roshei hayishiva and other formidible lomdim sheToireh umnosom, who in Shangchai were perhaps ois getun fin velt and immersed in their learning and davening ,were unaware of money matters.Of course the only exception would have been the Shangchaier Rov,Rav Ashkenazi ZT"L who was responsible for the distribution of the moneys.On the other hand the "laymen" such as Lubavitcher bochurim ,of which Reb Shimon Goldman was one, were completely aware of the fact that they were being short changed.
My father A"H told me that as a young man in Poland he remembered a visit of the previous Belzer Rebbe ZT"L to Lodz.When the Rebbe was given a tour of the city he was shown a knitting factory.Being azoi ois geton fun velt the Rebbi exclaimed "vos darf men dos altz hobben?" not out of ignorance but because he was, as my father called him, a "Himmel Yid" who could not perceive anything other then ruchnius.
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