HaGaon HaRav Moshe Shternbuch spoke about the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral election in his weekly English-language shiur this week.
“The Jews in New York are going through a difficult period,” HaRav Shternbuch began. “A Muslim mayor was elected, and many Jews are afraid of him.”
“But we must remember that Hakadosh Baruch Bu is with us. That goy can’t do anything. No one should chas v’shalom get confused and think that he can harm us.”
“HaRav Chaim Brisker, z’tl, used to say, ‘When I’m walking in the streets in Brisk and a goy comes along, he surely wants to kill me, and he can kill me. Why doesn’t he kill me? Because Hakadosh Baruch Hu makes him lazy.'”
“It’s the same thing here,” HaRav Shternbuch emphasized. “This goy wants to harm us, and perhaps he can. But you must never forget that if Hakadosh Baruch doesn’t want, he’ll be lazy and won’t do anything.”
“We have nothing to worry about. Hakadosh Baruch will take care of us.”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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אין לנו על מי להישען אלא על אבינו שבשמים
Europe – 1935. “Hkb”h is with us”, no need to relocate to the Treifineh America.
Just because something looks good doesn’t mean it’s good
And just because something looks bad doesn’t mean it’s bad
Going to Israel looks good doesn’t mean it’s good, and being Jewish also doesn’t automatically mean it’s good
This person as mayor looks bad, but it doesn’t necessarily mean it is bad automatically
Israel maimed and killed a bigger percentage of the Gaza nation then possibly since the bronze age
We are not zionist
@ader:
If not for the evil Zionists lobbying governments against allowing in Jews to their countries (and in the name of world Jewry, of course – same lie then as now), then Jews would indeed have been able to escape to other countries.
Besides, Rav Elchonon and the Brisker Rav and all the rest wrote that it is wrong to go from a place of physical danger to a place of spiritual danger.
Rav Shterbuch shlita also promised in 2008 that we’d survive Obama. The Godol has an excellent track record.
HaKatan,
Do you still live in Lithuania or Poland? Or maybe Belarus? After all, “Rav Elchonon and the Brisker Rav and all the rest wrote that it is wrong to go from a place of physical danger to a place of spiritual danger.” How dare you question them???
Something tells me you live in the treifene medina yourself. Am I wrong?
we are safer in NYC and lakewood than under the Zionists yoke
Unfortunetly, that famous vort of Reb Chaim Brisker, about the goy being lazy to clean up the mess, didn’t age to well when the holocust wiped out brisk and all of Lita.
@ader – had we moved to the “treifineh medinah” the malach hamoves would have followed us. (See “Appointment in Samara.”)
FDR was not exactly looking under every stone to find ways to save the Jews from extermination in Europe. Anyone who
stood by “lazily” and remained silent, also wanted us all dead r”l. If not, they would have spoken up.
That is #1. #2 do you really believe the gedolei Yisroel who advised many to remain, that they acted out of ignorance? Is it possible it was the Yad HaShem or that halachah dictated to stay?
Your emunas Chachomim and emunah BaShem is truly remarkable.
Shuali
You are fantasizing. It was a terrible mistake.
MUSMADI It’s certainly a HamaSS terrorist as his evil and dangerous father who teaches in that cesspool called Columbia, who glorified suicide, bombers, and still has a job there!!
and the mask
comes off his venom
towards Jews
and Israel is despicable, but he has no
say he can’t take New York City pensions and have them pull out of Israel. He can’t arrest any IDF or he cannot arrest anybody from Israel. He’s just empty words. He is a phony fraud
hypocrite because his dress of his wife is like a hooker but she supposed to be in a BURKA he says he’s pro gay but his DEATH. cult.
says throw
them off the rooftops
so he’s speaking out of both sides of his mouth. He is truly evil evil dangerous may. HKBH. destroy him. BKAROV
Ader and moek, what Reb Chaim said is a fundamental principle of Yiddishkeit. If HKBH doesn’t want the goy to kill you he won’t kill you. The Holocaust happened because HKBH wanted it to happen. It’s not to us to find reasons or justifications for HKBH; but the fact is that He did want it, and that’s why it happened. Had He not wanted it it would not have happened.
And that’s exactly what Reb Chaim said. The goy doesn’t kill me only because he’s too lazy to do so; and why is he lazy? Because HKBH makes him so. The same applies to Mamdani; he is an evil person who wishes to harm us, but he won’t unless HKBH wants him to. So the real address is HKBH.