Comments on: Op-Ed: Response By The Bostoner Rebbe On Yair Lapid Op-Ed

By: About Time

About Time — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:40:54 +0000

#2 #3

(When you find yourself somehow in agreement with say, the mafia, or hamas ,would that a symptom of something wrong?)

To paraphrase Kahane:
We’re probably in graver trouble if they/he are supporting ,than if they oppose us

By: zionflag

zionflag — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 19:13:41 +0000

Extremely respectful and awe inspiring response.

By: ronfromnj

ronfromnj — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:41:24 +0000

I am no fan of Yair Lapid, but I have serious doubts as to whether the Rebbe Shlit”a actually wrote this piece. It appears to be based on a superficial reading of Lapid’s article, and doesn’t make the cogent points that the articulate Rebbe Shlit”a characteristically makes. Several examples:

- Lapid is a former journalist, not an academic, who has never claimed to “lead the so called Israel intellectualism” – in fact, he never even finished high school because of a learning disability. This is widely known in Israel.

The above article states: “Yes, the world has a hatred of the Jews which causes them to be as you state “committed to killing Jews” — as if this is a chidush that Lapid just awoke to. In fact, Lapid stated only that Hamas is committed to killing Jews. Moreover, those familiar with Lapid’s statements and activities know that he has always been aware of worldwide antisemitism, which he learned from his anti-religious father and mentor Tommy.

The article states that “intellectualism is the thoughts of people as formulated by others” — surely a better definition could be offered.

For these and other reasons that space doesn’t permit, I believe it is highly unlikely that the Rebbe Shlit”a penned this piece.

By: shepherd

shepherd — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:04:11 +0000

with all due respect… why should it be shocking that frum ppl agree with lapid when he says something sensible? we know chochma bagoyim taamin – why should he be worse? he seems to be an intelligent man and there may be a lot we can all learn from him. certainly frum people are the quintessential chachomim and we are gladly lomeid miKOL adam…

By: Nahapochu

Nahapochu — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 15:08:29 +0000

I don’t even understand his point… its just opposition for the sake of opposition… because people couldn’t deal with the fact that Yair Lapid said something correct that we all agree with.

Heres the news. What Yair Lapid said was correct, and that’s OK!

By: avraham

avraham — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 15:01:36 +0000

To the Bostoner Rebbi:
Thank you very much for all your effort and all your time to prepare and write this letter. You never know, maybe one day Mr. Yair Lapid will wake up and do Teshuva.