Dovid Lichtenstein with his Headlines program, is engaged in a very serious sin, זיוף התורה, and no one from the Orthodox camp should listen to it. That is according to a leading Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Gershon Ribner shlit”a, as stated recently (in a clip dated early this July, easily available online at his site). Lichtenstein has been doing this program for years (though recently very often he has a replacement host, such as R. Ari Wasserman in his place). While at first many people may not have realized it, over time it become apparent that he engages in various dangerous manipulations with his program, such as in the editing of audio clips to produce snippets he favors, choice of guests, etc. Coupled with his עשיר יענה עזות (משלי יח:כג), that makes his program very suspect and dangerous, and lacking a חזקת כשרות. His program is not a trustworthy source, especially with regard to an issue where is clearly heavily biased, such as this. David himself admitted that he never was in “770”, the main Lubavitcher Temple. So he is falling for an airbrushed, false picture of Lubavitch fed to him by smooth talking propagandists like Y.Y. Jacobson and Moshe Kotlarsky. If David wants to engage in self-delusion, that is his choice, but no one else should be fooled by these scam artists.
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