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Mike Moskowitz is a typical haredi Orthodox rabbi.
He wears a black suit and black hat. He sports a thick, curly beard beneath a closely shaved head. He peppers his speech with liturgical Hebrew and Yiddish words. He quotes from Jewish legal texts.
Moskowitz sometimes closes his eyes when he talks, swaying back and forth and rubbing his fingers together as if he’s engaged in deep Talmud study. He spent years upon years studying at traditional haredi yeshivas. Today he lives in Lakewood, a New Jersey shore town of some 100,000 residents well known for its largely haredi population.
To even dignify those low-life toeivaniks as “LGBT” is disgusting.
What about BLT?
The rationalizations people make just gain a title?
What is incumbent upon ourselves besides vocally denigrating and protesting, is to excommunicate anyone who is associated in any way with fellas like himcf. Ramban on Devarim 27:26
One who shirks their obligation to uphold Judaism as much as is feasible is “Arur”I’m not going to make a self-repressed and insulting comments like Joseph, but I don’t think that this Rabbi would qualify as Orthodox due to his positions.
Will he have been the first to stab us in the back?
( Louis Ginzberg, founder of Reconstructionism,studied in Telz )
Does that make it any less pernicious?Hardly. A traitor is a traitorRav Aharon Kotler, warned that the greatest threat facing Jewry is not intermarriage or assimilation, but perversion of the Torah,
(Mishnas Reb Aharon 1:2,3:6).Why is it any worse then giving an aliya to a known molester and known thief?
Sounds like a NYC subway tranfer station. “Transfer here for the LGBTQ, stand clear uh da closin doors”!
First things first
pressure BMG to revoke whatever “smicha” he hasChiefshmerel;
Joseph is correct. What is there really to discuss?While I don’t support or defend this lifestyle, why is this different than any other “kiruv” situation where many members of a shul are not religious? (This is assuming that the shul is run according to orthodox standards)
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Takes 2,
Are they flaunting it ?Are they promoting it?Are they advertising themselves as a …synagogue?!
How about a synagogue advertising for murderers ?Or worse?Judaism has Cardinal Precepts.Should we file religious Bankruptcy?!
Adocs,
In what whatsoever can this be comparable?!Kiruv is for those who were born frei who wish to improve[ no one is Actively sinning as LGBT as an infant]!
And for 7 mitzovs Bnei Noach there is never any concect of Tinok She’nishba
Makkos 6It’s, the Gemara there says that when it comes to murder there is no such thing for Jews either. In contrast, see Chullin 15b מנהג אבותיהן בידיהן. I also heard that there is a difference between mishpatim and chukkim regarding לא יאמר אדם אי איפשי ללבוש שעטנז, אי אפשי לאכול בשר חזיר, אי איפשי לבוא על הערוה, אבל (יאמר) איפשי ומה אעשה ואבי שבשמים גזר עלי כך.(Siifra Kedoshim 10).
It’s a problem. You can thank all the Jews who helped Obama and the demd gain a mandate which was set to destroy any good that was left In American culture which is based on Jewish ideas. In every generation there are going to be fake rabbis. You can’t worry about them.
Uncle Ben the subway in 2018 is the LGBT station.
Why is it any worse then giving an aliya to a known molester and known ganef or known tapist?
“It is time for truth” says:
Rav Aharon Kotler, warned that the greatest threat facing Jewry is not intermarriage or assimilation, but perversion of the Torah,
(Mishnas Reb Aharon 1:2,3:6).
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Based on this,Rav ahron is rolling around in his grave knowing that the shtut of lakewood is preverting his mesora.“Based on this,Rav ahron is rolling around in his grave knowing that the shtut of lakewood is preverting his mesora.”
For those of lakewood who ARE aware and don’t care or even smirk, not only is He rolling over in his grave, but so is every righteous man since AdamRambam Hilchos Teshuva 3:6-10
And anyone who can effectively protest and does not will be responsible for the subsequent wrong that results. Shabbos 54a
“Why is it any worse then giving an aliya to a known molester and known ganef or known tapist?’
Who said it was worse? Are you saying it’s any better?
In Publicity Stunt, Orthodox Rabbi Takes Job at LGBT Synagogue
Why would anyone want to discuss?
Only fools pay attention to publicity stunts.
At their peril, I might add.I hadn’t heard of this before. He used to be an Aish campus Rabbi at Columbia, apparently. That’s scary for a couple of reasons:
1. Either Aish is doing a terrible job of vetting for letting this guy in. He could have destroyed hundreds of kids, misleading them in what right and wrong are.
2. Or, it could mean he was actually frum, and living around a liberal, college environment destroyed him. How often might this be happening?he is a frum lakewood guy, it seems a close family member of his ‘Changed Identities” and that is what changed his views
Exactly why he took this position I do not know. I am only guessing here
Perhaps its better to keep a little contact with these people so they can do Tshuva than cut them off so they will never come back, Tough Love doesnt always work and many times its backfire.
May these people do Tshuva for their averiahs
Has anyone considered the possibility that he’ll try to get them to do tshuva?
Even if he’s successful with a small percentage, wouldn’t that be an accomplishment?
adocs,
No .
Firstly how come we giving him alibis?If so ,let him talk for himself
Need we state the obvious?By taking the title he is a choteh U’macht for the whole region , just for giving legitimacy,
Second,How abut taking a postion in a reconstructionist or reform temple to supposedly for tshuva ? In those cases at least no one is misledThe chofetz Chaim,as is well known,stated that Amalek includes those of jewish extraction
It is brought down [in two sources] that the egregious evil of Amalek that we are obligated to battle our final battle is Toi’evahAnd at this moment when we are in a war,and he chose to switch sides
golfer,
Indeed. That’s why I don’t think we should be discussing him or his actions
a docs,
1) His message calls for inclusion2) The colossal CH is probably worse than the potential kuriv
Aish is a very liberal place. Nothing like this guy but Aish has very liberal religious attitudes.
Joseph
that’s off topic.
R’ Noach Weinberg is turning over in his grave.
Yes, Aish has it’s problems, And in more than a few locales , are getting worse
...Let’s now return to topic
ITFT: He was replying to my comment.
I’m assuming Joseph is going with the bad vetting theory on my post. There might be practices they have that I’m not so OK with either, but I don’t know that I would infer that they’re so left wing that it could lead to this. They aren’t like OU/RCA left wing, much less Avi Weiss left-wing.
“Why is it any worse then giving an aliya to a known molester and known ganef or known tapist?”
do we have a ganavs “shul” or the rapists shul?
adocs
he openly states his position, there is no mitzvah to dan a rasha likav zchus. in fact the opposite is true.
he is there only to give them a haskama.
rav ahron soloveichik paskened that Orthodox Yeshivas could not march in the Israeli Day Parade as long as this temple marched under the banner of a Gay “synagogue”. I can imagine how much he would scream against this evil!
It’s true that Aish isn’t as far left as the RCA, but they’re ideologically closer to the RCA than to the Agudah.
What’s a tapist? Is that like Richard Nixon?
Moskowitz also says that normative Orthodoxy gets Jewish law wrong when it comes to transgender identity. He says, for example, that the biblical ban on cross-dressing is actually a prohibition on misrepresenting one’s gender identity — no matter what it is — through clothing.
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“Transgender as an awareness is just a presence of understanding,” he says. “There’s no prohibition to acknowledge the reality of something when it comes to one’s identity. If a person says about themselves ‘this is who I am,’ it’s not a space of choice.”Whatever you say, Mike.
I have never heard that AISH was leftist, however if you are going to do Kiruv, you have to know how to talk to people. Giving them a schmooze by Rav Avigdor Miller is probably going to backfire for most people
He is a sick puppy
If he is indeed a sick puppy, it is extremely important to admit him to a veterinary hospital.
I previously read a headline that a Rabbi associated with Open Orthodoxy took this position. Now I see this thread claiming a frum Jew took this position. Which should I believe? Where does he really align himself?
“Why is it any worse then giving an aliya to a known molester and known ganef or known rapist?’. No one seems to be up in arms with that.
Mike Moskowitz is not a YCT guy, He is a BMG Guy
According to David Rosenthal, who wrote the book why Open Orthodoxy is not Orthodox, writes:
“Moskowitz is a former senior educator of Uri L’Tzedek, an “Orthodox social justice organization” founded and run by YCT graduates.”
Would a shul of thieves (or inside traders, or just plain old fashioned gonifs) be such a controversy? Just because a Yid is flunking at one mitsva does not exempt them from the rest. And frankly, would we want such persons, even if they are otherwise frum, in our shuls?
Akuperma, Wrong.
IT would depend if it was L’taavon or l’hacha’as.And when a group of sinners joins flaunting grievous sins that is categorically L’haachas..It would be much better if they go flunk the rest cf.Isaiah chap.1Zdad,
therefore?! So he chose the devil,and wishes bring the rest of us !akupermaParticipant
Would a shul of thieves (or inside traders, or just plain old fashioned gonifs) be such a controversy? Just because a Yid is flunking at one mitsva does not exempt them from the rest. And frankly, would we want such persons, even if they are otherwise frum, in our shuls?
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The fact is, known ganovim,rapist,and molesters are in shul and are given aliyos and treated as a regular congregant. But no one seems to bothered by that.Takes 2,
Would any of them pass laws,wave banners , unabashedly promote their ‘lifestyles’,ask us to embrace them?Would you ?
We were obligated to wipe out the 7 Nations of Cana’an because they were also “so tolerant”@It is Time for Truth I don’t know why you think a congregation of those who identity as LGBT Orthodox Jews are living their lifestyle lehachis. It would leteiavon, and/or they rationalize why it’s not assur.
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