In a conversation with the Satmar Rav, shortly after
his talk on the U.N. declaration, Reb Shraga Feivel [Mendlowitz]
was subjected to the sharpest criticism for his “Zionist leanings.”
Later he told his family,
“I could have answered him [the Satmar Rav]
Chazal for Chazal, Midrash for Midrash,
but I did not want to incur his wrath,
for he is a great man and a tzaddik.”
He added with a twinkle, “And besides, he has a fiery temper”…
SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz,
the architect of Torah in America(chapter 26, page 335 to 336)
by Yonoson Rosenblum for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001 CE,
based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965
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PERSONAL COMMENT:
Maybe the real reason why Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz
feared to disagree with the Satmar Rebbe about Eretz Yisrael
was because the Satmar Rebbe screamed like
a maniac whenever he mentioned Zionism?
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PERSONAL COMMENT:
Maybe the real reason why Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz
feared to disagree with the Satmar Rebbe about Eretz Yisrael
was to avoid getting attacked and beat-up by Satmar Chassidim?
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Both of these possibilities have already been mentioned
in this Coffee Room, and several times, and not by me.