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I never met anyone in my life that said the reason they are religious today is because of the lubavitchers. Not one. Most of their work is wasted on hopeless cases like mentioned before of people literally not on the path and hopelessly intermarried, because their goal is to get people to do mitzvahs even if those people are disqualified from actually doing them already simply because they don’t keep the Sabbath. This is clear rambam and shulchan aruch, a non shomer shabbos who u put tefillin on is basically a nonjew who put on tefillin. The only reason it would pay to do this is if they are being pushed in the direction of observing more but not comforted to stay the same or just ignored after they put it on. And they’re also famous for helping people going to questionable places for vacation so they could have a kosher meal between all the Forbidden things that they are doing. In my opinion you shouldn’t put a Jewish Family out there for the sake of helping people sin
As rav shach famously said, chabad is the closest religion to Judaism. Giving pesach packages to intermarried families is the biggest waste of money possible and a disrespect to the donors, we have enough starving religious families that need the help. People that actually contribute to the world with Torah that’s where the help should be going
Unfortunately with selective kiruv ( only showing love but never revealing punishments and the requirements of the Torah) you end up with people who come to you for years and still haven’t started keeping Shabbos. If the goal is to get them to a Shabbos table and give them a good time but then they leave thinking they’re great and accepted with no plans for observance you sent completely the wrong message. And just for the record if there isn’t 10 shomrei shabbos in the minyan the minyan is PASUL. So you might think it’s nice to give an Aliya to mr.max who hasn’t ever been religious in his life but he can’t get an Aliya. It’s simple halacha. You don’t disregard Jewish law because you have good intentions. Then the entire religion falls apart on the spot. Look how some Wicked woman out there is trying to do officially a good thing of getting women released from trapped marriages, and in the meantime she’s trampled on every Torah principle in existence. I’m sure many will know who I’m talking about but giving up modesty and family purity and deciding that any line can be crossed because we feel bad for someone, that’s not Judaism. It’s wickedness with a giant price to pay
My question is what damage are you allowed to risk yourself and your family when you try and find random people to put tefillin and eat at your shabbos meal (of which many are just there for the accommodations and go right back to their car after) ? I’m not saying that their heart isn’t in the right place, it absolutely is. But I’ve seen the results with my own eyes of some of the families that went out to remote areas without Jewish life and saw some of their own children leave the fold because they had almost no connection to Judaism. It’s a slippery slope and you should talk to a very experienced and knowledgeable Rabbi before embarking on these missions. But one thing’s for sure making a chabad house down the block from some of the most filthy places in the known world such as in Columbia or Thailand is not what Hashem would want from someone
If they’re really suing you for speaking against Manis they should also file one against R ahron feldman of ner yisrael who warned against him in the clearest of terms which can be found straight on YouTube. Defamation is making up something that isn’t true, and what they are saying about him is absolutely true. He spreads false teachings and fools many naive people into living a life that could lead to their destruction. That’s not defamation. We have all the sources in the world to prove Friedman wrong and he refuses to engage because he knows he will be buried alive and embarrassed. That’s not a rabbi that’s a corrupted celebrity
Oddly nobody mentioned what Rav Gifter said about YU in one of his speeches then you could probably find on YouTube. He definitely said they completely lost their way even if they originally were founded with the right intentions. From what I see today I don’t know how someone could even fathom sending a son there
Ok…and? The amount of problems listed requires Hashem to create a new world and start over from scratch which would be easier than tackling just about anything you said. Hope to Live Another Day
Another pathetic cash grab. After making everyone go buy new Bins with lids already now it’s not good unless it has an official logo on it? How pretty does the garbage have to be before getting squished in that truck? Biggest scammers of all time
I have nothing against the Tanya, I was making a point that even those who swear to live by it are not actually really following it either because they ignore critical chapters of punishment and Hell. Obviously there’s some agenda there but if they would actually learn it we would be looking at a completely different movement
I don’t know how anyone can read the chumash in basic translation and come to a conclusion that there’s no punishments. So many pesukim say “מות יומת” and 2 parshios deal with specific threats that come to people who don’t listen. And then people ask where is God why does God do bad things to us, but if they would just read basic English ud get your answers. This fake feel good Judaism is leading too many astray. The mishna/gemara/rambam/shulchan aruch/ all the mussar books and even the Tanya speak of consequence and punishment. Get with the program society you don’t Wana discover this after your levaya
How do you know they’re not joining the Army simply because there’s a draft and the only other option was to sit and learn the entire day which many are not necessarily interested in doing? That is the main reason that many of them are in the army, they didn’t exactly have a choice. Let’s see what happens when there’s a choice. Not that I don’t have respect for soldiers, I have a great gratitude toward them. But I’m not going to simply just ignore the Giant list of Chief rabbis of our time that speak about the spiritual risk of serving, I don’t even need to hear it from them I already know people who served myself and I saw what happened to some of them, they’re not stupid and there is significant concern
There’s a list longer than Manis friedman of people who are out there spreading nonsense and misleading the public. And they’ve been reached out to respectfully Many times and refuse to engage or retract. That’s why it’s very important to get the word out that people shouldn’t listen to them, because those who follow are in danger. You’ll find more wicked kofrim like Dror Cassouto, Natan slifkin, Boteach, and UK dweck yemach shemo doing more damage than you can imagine. A lot of these fake “everyone is excused from their sinful Behavior ” comes from them. No kosher rabbi ever says such a thing
That belief runs contrary to every holy book that we have on the Shelf. The entire chumash/mishna/gemara/ and even the Tanya itself becomes a joke and a lie if someone comes to say that those who didn’t keep the Torah and did whatever they want will share the same fate as those who committed to it and spent their whole life working hard and restraining themselves. I don’t think anyone actually believes that lie. Do people think Hashem is some stupid liberal? The entire premise of the religion including what we say in shema twice a day is that hashem rewards the righteous and punishes the wicked. This happy Redemption for all is what we call feel good Judaism and it’s not accurate
I don’t agree at all. I happen to not think that the people who spent their whole life doing the opposite of what Hashem wants are going to share the same fate as the ones who worked hard and sacrificed to do what Hashem wants because that turns the whole Torah pretty much into a lie and a joke. The opposite of every principle the religion is founded on. Perhaps they mean those who repented…
I’m not justifying but only trying to explain part of the reason these hostilities exist. It’s not so much the kippa itself, but the group it identifies with. It’s not a secret that many (not all) in the dati leumi camp for example have many hashkafic ideology issues that are simply not kosher in the charedi circles. Serving in the secular Army for example which constantly throws arrows at the religious way of life and even those who serve are constantly complain about what’s going on there, affects a person’s religious level whether you like it or not. Then they go to secular University. Then you see what some of their weddings look like. Always mixing secular and mixing secular and you end up having people that are mostly secular, even though their heart still Beats Jewish love for the land. In the more Ultra Orthodox circles all this mixing is unacceptable because they have seen the result. And now we see how much hatred comes from them towards the ultra Orthodox that they will even go to secular media to belittle and berate even the biggest rabbis that they don’t agree with. The clothes only magnify the label, even if the person wearing all that 100% doesn’t think this way. So there is skepticism on both sides of each other and it leads to intolerance. How to fix it? Almost impossible to do unless every group is willing to accept the other and it has to be in both directions, not just Ultra Orthodox toward dati leumi… I doubt any jew is upset we got yerushalayim back in 67. But the politics behind the holiday made it a day not everyone can celebrate comfortably.
Again there are those people that automatically will run to bash anything a rabbi does. You really think these two people woke up and said you know what I’m going to go ruin that Jews business today, they have a majority backing of their community that doesn’t want these type of environments prevalent. Did you just discover what Lakewood is? This is what they want and it would not work in Teaneck or the five towns. But over there they’re much more spiritually sensitive and it’s important to show respect
And you think there are many Jews in Israel like this? Almost none. The US is a hopeless story already with the highest intermarriage rate possible. Frankly we don’t even know who’s Jewish anymore to save
Pirkei avos is mishna, literally the most accepted and widely learned Torah there is. You’ll find threats throughout the whole thing. Guess what Judaism is not a feel-good religion that caters to people’s feelings and emotions. It’s the exact opposite. It’s instructions from your Creator and consequences for disobedience. It really doesn’t matter if you like it or not eventually you’re going back home
Look at what both pirkei avos and the shaarei teshuva of rabbanu yona says about people who disparage talmidei chachamim. The gemara says straight out there’s no cure to his wound. Unfortunately people play with this fire online constantly but just remember it’s all being recorded. It’s not worth your Anonymous few minutes of fame to put them down
The reform and conservative are reading the exact same Torah scroll as we do, very clear about many things that they don’t keep. Nobody could say that they can’t find the translation to homosexuality being forbidden or not getting a tattoo. The entire world knows what kosher is. It says 12 times in the scroll at least that the Sabbath must be observed, and all those secular people know that religious people tune out of their Electronics on Saturday and don’t drive. It’s very very hard for most of them to claim tinok shenishba no matter how strongly your feelings wish they could. In the end it’s not doing them a favor to give them a fake label and then they go upstairs and find out they were responsible. Yeah there are people that don’t even know they’re Jewish out there, and people that never heard of any Torah. But it’s super rare
We’ve been down this road before in many communities and multiple Generations, the rabbis are not stupid and naive. The spiritual well-being of our children is top priority and while many people may not see it as a big deal if a few get lost, there’s no permission to gamble with even a single one of them. Rabbi’s are our spiritual leaders and when they see a danger the right thing to do is respect them and know that they didn’t just decide this overnight like some people think. If your attitude is what’s the big deal that means the problem already hit you long ago and affected you to this day
I don’t know at what point it became acceptable to bash holy rabbis and put them down just because you don’t agree with them on something. They definitely looked into it and found the problem to be prevalent. All the people that have the hands off approach and don’t think there’s any issue should know that we’ve been down that road before, and once there’s an improper atmosphere that affects young people, it could be many years before some of the damage gets fixed. Any Jewish Soul lost is one too many, and a place that can affect negatively the spiritual well-being of our children has to be addressed. If you don’t think that’s important the problem already hit you long ago
People have zero clue what tinok shenishba means. Most poskim will already say the ones in Israel they already know there’s a God, they know that there’s a Torah, and they know that in it speaks about Shabbos observance. That’s already enough to disqualify someone from that category. Maybe someone who grew up in Ukraine and never found his Jewish roots you could say that person is definitely one. But many of the secular in Israel are already from religious homes to begin with, and the ones that aren’t still have plenty of knowledge of what it says in the Torah. Maybe these excuses are to get rid of the conscience. But upstairs they don’t buy these excuses
It was done by dr.yidd and israeliYid the 2 arch terrorists of this website
I mean we’re talking about in this case people that support like six kollelim alone, so you can’t say they’re not holding equal weight spiritually. On the other hand it is true many times people that are blowing Millions on cars and pesach mansions barely give a cent to Torah and that should be condemned
I think he holds the world record for Torah anytime activity