Firstly when HE speaks he speaks to HIS kehilah not to me because I never heard him. You may not have heard of MY Rav and may not know of any of the amazing things that he does. So YES when YOUR RAV speaks to his Kehilah he might have been trying to make a point to them. What does that have to do with me. And if you would take the issue to another Rav without saying who YOUR Rav is and where you live, they might not agree that it is appropriate to spend so much money on a shul when a yeshiva just closed in the community and children are left out on the street.
RB, YOU are pushing me to argue with you while I said to you it is NOT my BUSINESS nor do I care if YOUR RAV chose to do this. MY POINT is that NO ONE has the right to question others or be upset on how others spend their money and point their fingers, because there are a lot of fingers that can be pointed in many directions.
And SJS has a good point as well. Just this past year there were two horrendous stories that came out of the Monsey community in regard to the misuse of in the title “Rabbi”. A Tzaddik is a tzaddik whether he has the title Rabbi or not. Not all Tzadikim are Rabbonim and not ALL Rabbonim are Tzaddikim, unfortunately. We all wish we could say otherwise. And I am not going to say more on the subject because I am not going to turn this into a Rabbi bashing, absolutely, positively not!!!!!
But don’t throw it out there that because a person is a Rabbi, that makes him a tzaddik and therefore no one can argue their logic or their attitude. If he is your RAV and you trust in him and believe in him then to you he is a tzaddik and that is fine with me. As for me I don’t know him so I can’t and won’t comment on him. It is not my place. I just used the concept of spending so much on “glamorizing” the shuls when so many children are being thrown out of yeshiva for lack of funding just as bbubbee said how could people spend so much money on Pesach hotels in exotic places when others need their money more. Everyone should just mind their own business and let Hashem take care of it.