Health: I would like to make the following analogy. In 1965, someone starts a business baking bread. The person sees a need that his customers want other baked products and starts to make and sell the other products. His business becomes an instant success and opens his business in other neighborhoods. And within 20 years he now has businesses in 8 – 10 neighborhoods. Other communities in other states follow his lead. And within 50 years his bakery business is a wide success. Everyone buys from this bakery. We would sit here and talk marveling over this wonderful business and its huge success.
Now lets see what happened with Hatzaloh. I cannot say what CPR classes were available in 1965. But that was not the advice of the Satmar Rebbe. Did Heshel Weber know what Hatzaoloh would grow into in the 50 years since its founding? Probably not. He didn’t immediately go and buy ambulances or walkie talkies or multiple emergency medicine kits. He followed Daas Torah and himself took the training. And little by little the organization we now know as Hatzaloh was born. It went through growing pains like any other “business” and B”H with unbelievable Siyata Dishmaya has grown into what is possibly the #1 Chesed organization in world. So please stop criticizing what decisions were made under the guidance of the Heiligeh Satmar Rebbe 50 years ago.
BTW, I am a misnagid from Polish/Russian background and do not have any connections to the Satmar Kehillah.