הרה"ק ר' אהרן מנחם מענדל גוטערמאן מראדזימין זצ"ל
Hirshel:
The issue of OTD = Off The
Derech - kids is unfortunately a common discussion in many a household around town. Go back to yesterday's blog post if you doubt what we're saying. Or to last week's screaming match in a
Meah Shearim shtiebel. No neighborhood, no
chassidus, no
kehila, no matter how insulated or isolated, no matter how high the walls or how many internet
takonos, is pure - did you hear the cries of the Lakewood
Satmar dayan? He was clueless as to how to react to
chilul shabbos in Lakewood by
frum kids, he was just thinking about
chiyuv to be
mocheh. But he's an oldtimer, what more can we expect? The Monsey
Rebbe's view is "out of sight out of mind. Just forget about them. He claims His grandfather the
Ahavas Yisroel and his father had to deal with their own family members, and they did it the same way, ignoring them. It's a strange way to remember a
zeide who passed away when he was 15, to remember his grandfather who was famous in the whole region for the big
Ohev Yisroel in such a way
; sounds like selective memory. But maybe he's right?
In this
sefer,written by the
Rebbe Reb Mendele Radziminer, he writes that you should never ever give up on you son, do whatever it takes to keep him close, since his
neshamah will one day hear the
Kol Koreh for
teshuva, like the
Toldois Yankev Yosef says in the name of the
Besht. Moreover, in a more "
Rebbishe" way, what he says is that by the father putting all of his soul and energy here in
Olem Hazeh into educating his son, that will wake up the
Isaruso del'yalo of his father in Heaven, the father of
rachmunis , to pity his soul and give him a
ruach Tahara, and he will still become a
lamdan and a
tzadik. And I VOUCH for the father, says Reb Aron Mendel, that it will be so.
This is a view that has to be publicized...
