Comments on: WATCH: Burning The Israeli Flag In Kiryas Joel – In Honor Of Rabi Shimon Bar Yochai [See 1:15 In Video]

By: Kolemes

Kolemes — Tue, 12 May 2015 17:24:25 +0000

while I am not offended by the burning of the flag of the group that the Holy Chofetz Chaim zya himself called “Amalek” it is disingenuous to say that this represents Kiryas Joel, this is actually from a small group of dissidents who have no Rebbe and seek to dissolve the existence of the Village of Kiryas Joel because they consider it to be too Zionist!

By: notyeshivish

notyeshivish — Mon, 11 May 2015 21:23:47 +0000

To about time,
I really do appreciate you calling me pathetic. But let’s be honest here for a second, if, say, the chareidi community had a national flag and there was a video of zionists burning it you would be very upset as well. I’m not telling you that you’re completely wrong, I’m just telling you to look at it from the other side as well and not to let a bias get the better of you. In terms of the history lesson, what matters is not where it came from, if that story is even true but what matters is what it represents today. Actually, if you ever go to visit mishkan shilo, in the floor of an ancient church you can see a magen David design, so I think you may want to rethink what you said.

By: About Time

About Time — Mon, 11 May 2015 21:00:29 +0000

notyeshivish,

There could always be room to improve for all

Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch was defamed as much or more than anyone in his day as a destroyer of achdus and for his lack of ahavas yisroel

Pulling out ahavat Yisrael is feeble .

Leave that to the heads of reform ,conservative or Avi weiss

psalm 97:10

take these posts as a challenge

the onus shall be on you to prove them mistaken

By: About Time

About Time — Mon, 11 May 2015 20:47:49 +0000

#42notyeshivish

‘call Herztl a “yemach shemo” ‘

14 years ago an old jew related to myself, that decades ago he asked whether it was appropriate to call Herzl “yemach shemo” and he was told “yes”

“Zionism is a way of life”

How sad.
Could you have put it any worse?

Who you umbrella with somehow says zero about who you are?!

If you imagine you will accomplish our goals from within, there is what to be said for that, but all the more so you ought to give credence to critics

By: About Time

About Time — Sun, 10 May 2015 19:31:01 +0000

They ought to start again and adopt a new flag

(e.g. Canada did it 50 years ago)

By: About Time

About Time — Sun, 10 May 2015 19:28:27 +0000

Query both to the flag burners and moreso to it’s horrified pathetic defenders:How come you give so much tangible value to this ‘piece of cloth’?

The flag was originally copied from the late 19th century Reform temples of New England

By: notyeshivish

notyeshivish — Sun, 10 May 2015 06:12:27 +0000

Oh and p.s. For all of the people who are commenting saying what’s the big deal about just burning a cloth, what would happen if YWN were to post a video of zionists burning tzitzit. You would all be up in arms about burning cloth so stop with the contradictory comments please.

By: Fresser Rebbe

Fresser Rebbe — Sun, 10 May 2015 04:05:47 +0000

Satmer does do lots of Chesed, and on the other hand the Flag is not that of a big deal, however the idea that burning it is something of a way to celebrate anything, let alone the day of lag b’omer, the one day that the talmidim of Reb akiva stopped passing away, and to have children of all ages think that this is the way to serve hashem, is retarted, and shame on the Satmer Manhigim, and don’t tell me that its only a small group, the old saying goes “when a fish starts to smell, it atarts to smell from the head” all the way from the holy Rabaini Yoel

By: notyeshivish

notyeshivish — Sat, 09 May 2015 23:19:27 +0000

Dear bdtz,
Your comments on this topic are really sad and clearly ridiculously biased. To call Herztl a “yemach shemo” and knocking on the entire Zionist Sect of Judaism is uncalled for and hurtful. Zionism is a way of life, very similar to being chareidi or something to that effect. To the “frum” zionists it does not infringe on our religiosity whatsoever, it simply is a mindset and a set of beliefs. So yes it is hurtful that you think that we don’t have just as high a standard of Judaism as you think you do. Maybe you should test yourself to see if you have a decent enough level of ahavat Yisrael as you think you do.

By: Mark Levin

Mark Levin — Fri, 08 May 2015 19:57:44 +0000

22,

Thats as asinine as anyone saying they wont give to anything jewish because of one tipish or of saying everyone here is foolish based only on your post.

There are wackos out there claiming affiliation to satmar. Big deal. Deny giving their bikur cholim, tomche shabbos etc money because of 10 people??????

What did Skvere do to you? Or you hate everyone that isn’t exactly you?

I daven you never need bikur cholim of any sort in any hospital because i wouldn’t want you to ch’v derive any benefit from satmar, belz, skver, bobov, etc!!