After speaking with HaRav Matisyahu Solomon Shlita, HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita has released a letter ahead of Sunday night’s asifa at CitiField, which will address the position of rabbonim shlita against unfiltered internet and other electronic devices which are viewed as a threat to the Jewish home.
Below is the text of the rav’s letter as it was released. In short, R’ Kanievsky expresses his opposition to unfiltered internet and the threat to any Jewish home it poses by offering uncensored to’eva and making this unacceptable content accessible to all.
The rav calls upon the tzibur to participate in the asifa in line with the call by gedolei torah in the United States, to save one and all from the yetzer hora.
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10 Responses
If this asifa is so important, perhaps it should be live streamed or made available online so the bulk of klal yisroel who happen NOT to live in the tri-state area, can have access to it.
otherwise the message is: this is such a grave thing and ‘everyone’ should come. Unfortunately if you don’t live in the tri-state area, or can’t make it to the event, we just don’t care about you.
Moderators Note: Contact the organization involved for more information, but this Asifa IS being broadcast outside of NYC.
Dear Moderator.
If there is a web address- you would be doing your readership a huge toyvah in finding it and publicizing it.
Otherwise … my understanding is that it’s being broadcast at select locations via satellite hook-up
I happen to live outside those select locations.
a web stream or download would get the most traction and, it it truly is the case that this is diveri hisorirus, repeat views for those who want to listen again (like an online shiur)
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There are separate hookups for men and women in cities throughout the country. Check the Yated, etc for the locations.
Quite amusing to see the Internet used to broadcast the Asifa.
Olam hafuch ra’isi.
We are definitely in Ikvesa d’Meshivah. Confusion reigns.
Shazam: Nothing amusing about it. The people online are THE ONES WHO NEED TO SEE IT MOST!
To #4, if you bothered reading the letter, the asifa is about using the internet responsibly. Not about prohibiting it outright. No need for confusion; just read and understand.
#4, confusion reigns, big time. This very phony YWN, that features articles from the Drudge Report and other Secular news outlets, they allow feeds from Youtube on their site, yet they maintain that they are “Yeshiva” oriented and support this asifa ? A bunch of fake and phony hypocrites
Why would they broadcast it on the internet if the whole point of it is not to go on the internet.
how come my blog wasn’t posted?
yeshivaworld. you have put yourself in the act of corruption. by not posting my blog. you have shown that you support corruption & dishonesty, thus leaving me no choice but to stop being a supporter of YWN. i can’t support corruption. CORRUPTION BRINGS A PERSON TO DESTRUCTION.
Maybe i will support you again & tell others to use you after you have done teshuva