Say what you want about Reb Aron Teitelbaum, but when he wants to he knows to put people he disagrees with in their respective places. The examples here of that are almost too numerous to mention. You need to watch the whole clip. It's a kosher comedy. Some people are there but WE don't know why. Like, when did Reb Dovid Shustal become the פארזארגער of Klal Yisroel? Some are there and THEY don't know why. Like, Reb Mordche Duvid seems like he just now for the first time heard that there is an Israeli army. But they never expected the smackdown from the Satmar KJ Rebbe, that's for sure!
This is how the sausage is made, we just never get to see it.
Friday, July 7, 2017
Thursday, July 6, 2017
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Maybe the electricity האט ביי זיי געעפענט די אויגן...
Here's what we're speaking of. The electricity that they installed in Belz way back when. Basically Belz was a town like all others in Galicia. With their Mizrachisten and Tziyonisten. No different than Lubavitch and their problems back then, כידוע. A friend of the blog sent it in, and we thank him for that.









Monday, July 3, 2017
ה'מלאך' הגואל, ור' אלה בער נרדם

ביי די אסיפת הרבנים וועגן די "גזירת הגיוס" - אין מאנסי נעכטן
:מכתב שנתקבל במערכת
עד כאן
Sunday, July 2, 2017
ליכטיג מאכען די חוצה
Hirshel:
It's 90 degrees outside and I talk about Chanukah. But today I saw a Reb Tzudek in רסיסי לילה - נ"ז - אות ו - in the new print - that Chanukah and the בית המקדש lights are to light up the dark alleys, which means the Gentiles. I guess he was a Lubavitcher too. But if we see these words as a metaphor for all year round, how it's our job to light up the dark alleys of גלות, maybe it's appropriate after all. Even in July. Especially in light of recent happenings in the Tri-State area. It may be a hard task, and maybe the odds are against us, but it's till our job. Despite all the prejudices.
It's 90 degrees outside and I talk about Chanukah. But today I saw a Reb Tzudek in רסיסי לילה - נ"ז - אות ו - in the new print - that Chanukah and the בית המקדש lights are to light up the dark alleys, which means the Gentiles. I guess he was a Lubavitcher too. But if we see these words as a metaphor for all year round, how it's our job to light up the dark alleys of גלות, maybe it's appropriate after all. Even in July. Especially in light of recent happenings in the Tri-State area. It may be a hard task, and maybe the odds are against us, but it's till our job. Despite all the prejudices.

Thursday, June 29, 2017
Friday, June 23, 2017
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
3 minutes with Reb Yehoshua Schneur Zalman Serebryanski ע"ה
Reb Zalman was born in 1903 in Brahin, near Chernobyl, in White Russia. His father was Menachem Mendel and his mother was Nechama. His mother was the sister of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Gluskin, a Chabad Rov in Paritch, Minsk and Leningrad. His father Reb Menachem Mendel was a chasidisher yid with a very warm heart. His kindness was known throughout the community, including Samarkand, where he lived until his passing in 1942.
In 1924 at the age of 20, his father suggested he go learn in the Lubavitcher yeshiva in Rostov. The Frierdiker Rebbe accepted Reb Zalman into the Yeshiva. In 1925 he attended the Frierdiker Rebbe’s Purim Farbrengen in Leningrad. It was there that he first saw the Rebbe. He was close to Rabbi Chatshe Feigin the yeshiva Mashpia. Eventually Reb Chatshe appointed him to work for him as his secretary and to administer several underground yeshivos.
In 1928 he married Brocha Futerfas, sister of Reb Hendel Lieberman and Reb Mendel Futerfas. During the 1930s the couple and their three children lived in Charkov. In 1938 he was conscripted into the Russian army. In 1941 he moved his family to Samarkand. In 1949, Reb Zalman and his family were sent by the Previous Rebbe to Melbourne, Australia.
Reb Zalman founded various Chabad institutions in Melbourne including a boys elementary and high school and Beis Rivka for girls. In 1967, he founded the Yeshiva Gedola, which is a thriving Lubavitcher yeshiva for students from across the globe. On Yud Shevat 1970, the Rebbe honored him with the recital of a פסוק in conjunction with the completion of Moshiach’s Sefer Torah. The Rebbe wrote that he gives him this honor because he is the Mashpia of Chasidus for Australia.
A few weeks before Gimmel Tammuz, 1991, Reb Zalman said that his Shlichus had ended, and indeed on Gimmel Tammuz 1991 his נשמה returned to its maker.
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
פרסום ראשון: ה'משגיח קטן' שיקר מול האלפים בעצרת - ופוטר

Full Story Here
This is too good to be true. Well, almost. But apparently it is. They brought in some policeman in a Yeshiva to lie to the masses. He did a number on them. Crocodile tears and all. Crying about 5 bochurim that were either forcefully or cunningly taken to the טמא'נער צה"ל. The problem is he's no Rosh Yeshiva, as they claimed he was. The Yeshiva exists, to some extent, but the bochurim are fictitious. I said my piece about the whole shindig. This just solidifies it.

Credit: Shimon R.
Monday, June 12, 2017
נפטר געווארען דער שריד לדור דעה - הגאון הגדול ר' פישל הערשקאוויטש זצ"ל
(Youtube screen grab)
I spoke to a friend who spent time with Reb Fishele as a bochur. The man's father knew RFH from the Old Country. He always spoke very highly of him. I was the one who informed him on Motzoei Shabbos of the passing. His first words were: He was a Yid who never stopped bemoaning the fact that chibas Eretz Yisroel was torn from the fiber of Haredi society. then he went on to more traditional statements, like the fact that he knew all Sifrei Shu"T. Big gaon in Kabbalah as well. That he worked on all 40 Sifrei Rishonim that were published by the late Rabbi Chaim Moshe HaCohen Blau. Then he made a statement that most of you would not be כלים for, so I won't repeat it. I found it very telling. That a traditional Chassidic I suppose I should post this slready. It's been weeks. I can always add on later.
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Friday, May 26, 2017
צר לי עליכם, אחיי ורעיי תלמידי וחסידי סאטמאר הע"י
וויזוי האט דאס פאסירט? וויזוי קען זיין אז צוויי מענטשן וואס האבען מער ווייניגער דעם זעלבן לעבנס שטייגער זעהט איינער נישט וואס דער אנדערער זעהט? וועלכע סארט בריללען קען העלפן? איז דאס דער איינפלוס פון אייער - קרי סאטמאר - אייגענעם פרעססע, און איר מיינט פשוט אז אלע אנדערע זענען פארקויפט פאר די פאר פיאסטער וואס מ'קריגט פון די דארטיגער רעגירונג? און נאר איר ווייסט דעם ריינעם אמת? איר מיינט טאקע אז חוץ אייך מיט די משוגעים פון "עץ" זענען אלע גרייט גיין אין מיליטער? אז נאר די פאר סאטמורים מיט תולדות זענען מסכים בלייבען ביים לערנען? און דאס איז נישט קיין איינמאליגע זאך. דאס גייט שוין אהן א פאר יאר אזוי וואס כמעט וואך איין און וואך אויס טראמפייטערן די קעפלאך פון אייערע צייטונגן וועגן מערכות אהין און מערכות אהער, און גארנישט. חוץפון אייך ווייסט קיינער נישט פון וואס ס'האנדלט זיך. אבער איר רעדט דאך מיט מענטשן פון מאל צו מאל פון אנדערע קרייזן אויך, פרעגט איר זיי נישט צי זיי גייען אויך צום פראטעסט? און אז זיי פרעגן וואס און וואו און דו פארציילסט זיי וועגן דעם "שרעקליכן גזירה", און זיי שטעלן אהן א פאר קעלבענע אויגן, הייבט איר נישט אהן צו טראכטן אז אפשר בין איך וכו'? און וואס איז ווייטער? ווי לאנג וועט איר זיך לאזען אזוי פארפירן?
איר זענט דאך קלוגע אידן, לאזט זיך נישט אזוי
As an aside I add an email communication I received today while writing this post: Hi again. As per Matzav today the anti medina forces have scheduled an asifa to protest drafting leidek geyers into our esteemed IDF. Rav Aaron of Chaim Berlin and Rav Eli Ber will be there. As someone who has a mesora from his father that when litvaks and Satmar Chasidim make shulem so they can not support Israel it's a bad marriage, as it is built on Sheker. As someone who put up the flag of Israel in my heimish shul in KGH stating an appreciation to Medinat Yisrael for donating $303,000,000 To support Torah, (more than Joe and Faye Tenenbaum) and as someone who is a son of a survivor of 13 camps but felt his zechus of fighting in 1948 in the milchomo hakodosha of liberating our land was his greatest achievement, and as someone who was in front of the Beis Yisroel at 5:00am for tea, and went to Amshinov as well, and was meshamesh Rav Hutner zt"l - I state today that the yeshivish chasidic world has pushed me away, and that is why I am more Chabad today than ever. I want to declare that we must protest these people for going against our medina and I hope you can arrange a demonstration against them that day. Enough is enough. Sorry to take your time venting.
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
The Ponovezher Rov calls on Jews to prepare for the גאולה שלימה after the Six-Day war
I guess he hadn't seen the ויואל משה, otherwise he wouldn't write words like ניסים ונפלאות תשועות ונחמות, mamesh ווי די על הניסים. We all know that anybody who ever read the VM & על הגאולה immediately was convinced.
בית יעקב No. 100 Elul 5727
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הבה ונתכונן לקראת הגאולה השלימה by Hirshel Tzig on Scribd
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Friday, May 19, 2017
Juuust to be sure...
As a young whipper snapper I heard the following from my dear father zg"z: (If I once wrote it here I apologize)
There was once a very frum yiddene who would daven and say tehillim and learn צאינה וראינה all day. She would fast and do chesed and feed the old and sick. She was there in sight doing the right and holy thing. It's just that every day she'd go missing for a few minutes. Maybe even the same time every day. Nobody could find her. So they decided they'll follow her and find out once and for all. At the usual time the old lady descended into a basement where there she had set up - נישט מיר נישט ווייניגער - a tzeylem and all other paraphernalia and proceeded to bow down and do all other services associated with that religion! The people were in shock! So they asked her: סורי נעיני, what are you doing here? You're supposed to be this big tzadekes, and here you're worshiping another Getshke?! Suri Neni had a very simple answer; And what if they're right? I need to make sure and worship their Getshke too! Just in case.
My friends, I'm not c"v comparing our brothers from Lithuania to another religion. I leave that to them to do. But it seems like their once-solid belief in their system alone is beginning to crack, or at least show signs of wear and tear. They're not JUST going to Volozhin and Vilna, they need to go to Lizhensk and Lublin, just to be sure. Like Reb Boruch Mordche going to Lizhensk to sing ואפילו בהסתרה. It's good to see. Maybe all those years in bnei Berak and Yerushalayim had some sort of effect, after all. Maybe the Roshei Yeshiva taking kvitlach had an effect. Maybe they'll believe in G-d after all.
Maybe.
Thursday, May 18, 2017
a tale of two ראשי ישיבה
What follows in this week's Mishpacha magazine is the usual "pick a city and insert Yeshiva's name here. How such-and-such mande such-and-such city into an oasis of Torah." [I should know. It's tough putting out riveting material every week.] So I didn't really bother reading the article, although there were some cute pictures there. The thing is, he (RYMK of Denver) does smile in many of the later pictures! But for some reason this is what they chose to put at the forefront. I guess it makes for a good read bait. I guess Rabbi Wasserman (left) was the one you went to if you wanted to go home or go lie down in middle of seder.
Am I scraping the bottom of the barrel here? Maybe.
Friday, May 12, 2017
Thursday, May 11, 2017
How DO we judge success? thoughts on the 50th anniversary of מבצע תפילין
Received via e-mail:
"We did not hear that there were some people abstaining from eating treife food or refraining from desecrating Shabbos or that they were educating their children in religious schools, not under the heretics; I only heard that they put on tefillin." These are the words of the build up to סאטמאר רב'ס condemnation (tirade) against the big התעוררות for תפילין in Israel after the miraculous 6 Day War. See "על הגאולה ועל התמורה דף ק"א, ברוקלין תשס"ו". The argument on its own is very weak; After all, did he hear how many people became נוטרי הברית after his annual שובבי"ם campaigns? since when does a התעוררות get measured by its success? He was leading an anti אגודה campaign smearing all גדולי ישראל who did not see everything going on in the Holy Land as heresy..... it was a big machloka and caused lots of infighting between frum Jews, who were thus being עובר on many איסורי תורה. (not some sins sourced in non halacha) Did he ever decide to close shop on his anti Israeli election campaign, since it got nowhere? Every year more than half a million frum Jews participate in the Israeli election and it's only growing... why does only מבצע תפילין need a consequential success statistic? All the above aside, what will we do if we will help him in his quest to find Jews that did change because of tefillin ? I think we may have done just that. Or rather we discovered it, the actual work was done by others. This פסח the Mishpacha magazine ran a long article on a popular right wing conservative talk show host, who is leading an Orthodox lifestyle, eating kosher, Orthodox schools for his kids and Shomer Shabbos, all because of his one act of putting on tefillin. It was the holy soul "Schwartzie" ע"ה, the Chabad shliach Shlomo Schwartz at UCLA. In Michael Medved's words "Tefillin is the key metaphor for his Judaisim." That was what started him on his path to a life of full Torah & yiddsihkiet. This is not a 770 paid PR stunt. Will this story and thousands of other similar stories change a mind in that camp??? I do see that a harsh anti religious and anti Zionist Haaretz columnist who wrote an anti tefillin rant 9 years ago, did change his mind on tefillin, (See below)
Maybe. Just Maybe our "frum" brothers will also get a הרהור תשובה.
אלא שנראה כי מאז ציפר שינה את דעתו בעניין... הוא עצמו הגיע לא מכבר אל הכותל המערבי ונענה ברצון לפנייתו של אחד משלוחי חב"ד במקום שהציע לו להניח תפילין. התמונה שמפורסמת כאן, הינה באדיבות העיתון כפר חב"ד שמקדיש השבוע כתבה נרחבת לנושא מבצע 'הנחת תפילין' שאותו יזם והגה כ"ק האדמו"ר מליובאוויטש, לפני 50 שנים ערב מלחמת ששת הימים, ומאז ועד עתה הוא נחשב לאחת הפעילויות החשובות שמבוצעות ע"י חסידי חב"ד
מאתר 'לדעת' פנו לבני ציפר בכדי לקבל תגובתו, ואפשר רק לברכו על המהלך וגם על תשובתו הקצרה והיא: כן, שיניתי את דעתי. אשריכם ישראל
מאתר 'לדעת' פנו לבני ציפר בכדי לקבל תגובתו, ואפשר רק לברכו על המהלך וגם על תשובתו הקצרה והיא: כן, שיניתי את דעתי. אשריכם ישראל
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Happy 12th Birthday!
The 13th of Iyar 5765 is when this blog was born. George W. Bush was President. No smartphones. We had never heard of Pashkan and we had no smartphones. Life was simple. But as much as things have changed much has stayed the same. At least this blog has. Can't say the same for everybody else.
Maybe this'll be the year?
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