The Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Yoel used a major Motzei Shabbos dinner in Boro Park — held in support of the community’s local mosdos — to share strong and pointed reflections from his historic visit to Eretz Yisroel.
According to a video taken at the event, the Rebbe expressed serious concern about the spiritual state of many American bochurim who travel to learn in Israel, saying that instead of growing, “they are only declining.”
The Rebbe described what he personally witnessed during his recent stay in Yerushalayim. “When I was in Yerushalayim, I would go out — sometimes at 9 in the morning, sometimes at 10 or 11, or even later. I saw them “draying around” in the streets of Yerushalayim with hats, without hats, with wet peyos… wandering here and wandering there, not knowing what to do,” the Rebbe told the large crowd.
“I saw the hefkerus of the American bochurim walking around Yerushalayim. They claim they are “shteiging”, but they are not rising — they are falling,” the Rebbe stated emphatically.
Turning directly to parents in the audience, the Rebbe added a warning: “I want to tell the people here who may have boys in Eretz Yisroel, and those who know others who have boys there, This is the Matzav of the Bochrim. I can’t say for all of them, but a large percent of them are walking the streets with hefkeyrus”.
Thousands upon thousands of American bochurim travel yearly to Eretz Yisroel for yeshiva learning programs.
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He didn’t see anything.
He just likes to make headlines
The rebbe just spread motzei shem ra about thousands of yeshiva bochrim learning. Guranteed the rebbe never walked into Brisk, Mir, Pregers, Reb Tzvi or anyone else. What a zilzul to trash thousands of Bochrim like that in public.
OHHHHHH if he was referring to Satmar bochrim, he should have been very clear.
I’ll say it for him:
“raboysai, p[lease stop sending our Satmar Bochrim to Eretz Yisroel because they do not learn a word, are not in yeshivos, go to hafganos and block streets, they never daven with minyanim. keep them in Kiryas Yoel where they can continue to do this without embarrassing our chassidus.”
so true. the satmar bochrim do nothing all day.
he said it, not me.
Wanna know what this is REALLY all about?
There are hundreds of satmar bochrim learning in mir yerushalayim and other yeshivas. In a real yeshiva, with sedorim and chavrusos. And it’s killing him that satmar doesn’t have a single normal yeshiva in eretz yisroel for american bochrim with even one decent one magid shiur. Any satmar bochrum of substance ends up by reb asher in the mir.
Now you know the rest of the story.
Why do people always run to challenge the words of every Rabbi who says anything? You really think he said it without thought? Do you know better for sure?
These Bochurim sound like they would be a good fit for the IDF’s חטיבת החשמונאים
@rebEmes – Of course he gave it thought. Always does this stuff. Trump also thinks about things before he says them.
So confused.
I spent more time on the streets of yershalayim in the past 10 years then this rebbe spent in his entire life. facts matter sometimes.
Let me tell you what he saw. He saw lowlife Israeli drop outs aka “shbabnakim” and yerushalmi chevra walking the streets aimlessly with zero to do all day. And it’s tons of them. Maybe it’s time to draft them into the army and actually allow real yeshiva bochrim to sit and learn!
Actually, on second thought. This is his strategy. Blame all the laydigayers walking the streets as “americans” and then no one should draft them since they are not Israelis.
This has to be one of the funniest things I ever heard in my entire life.
Go to zichrom moshe shteeblach, meah shearim shteeblach, bais yisroel shteebs…. all the chevra doing nothing and smoking and just hanging around all day and night are his chevra.
NONE are Americans.