12 Sivan 5785
Shavua Tov!
"Consumer-Judaism": Living for This World and not the World to Come. It's not about what you can give, but about what you can receive...
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Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Twerski is Rav of Beis Medrash Torei Zahav (formerly Anshei Chesed) in Wesley Hills, NY, and a Maggid Shiur at the Bobov Yeshiva in Monsey. Prior to assuming his leadership role in Wesley Hills, Rabbi Twerski spent 10 years studying in the Belzer Kollel Iyun in Yerushalayim. He is married to Chani Eiger of Brooklyn, NY. Rabbi Twerski carries on the proud tradition of his Milwaukee family in Wesley Hills, where the community and the Beis Medrash are continuously growing thanks to his guidance and scholarship.
And even those who seem to be aware fail to draw the correct conclusions...
It's a delusion! How out of touch can Jews be with the reality of their situation in chu"l?
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Really?! There is something "between Jews and non-Jews??? Is this where the Judeo-Chr*stians go to find out where they are on "the spectrum"???
I think the vast majority of American Jews are in bigger trouble than they know.
...As I live, says the Lord God, surely with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with poured out fury, will I reign over you. And I shall take you out of the peoples, and I shall gather you from the lands in which you were scattered, with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with poured out fury. (Yechezkel 20.33-34)
Just like in Mitzrayim, no Jew will be left behind.
That Mountain view video is making me literally sick!
ReplyDeletesorry, previous anonymous comment is by Ness
ReplyDeleteIt is really sad how gaslit the American frum communities are and they don't even realize it. Much like most of Israel society is today.
ReplyDeleteI find it so disheartening that frumme yiden are excited about starting new communities in chutz l'Aretz, at this time in history, when we are
ReplyDeletenow back home in EY. They don't seem to understand what really
being frum is.
Just because we have at present the evil Erev Rav in control in
EY does not mean abandoning Hashem's gift to Am Yisrael so they
can feel secure elsewhere. They are only hurting themselves. There's something terribly wrong with the galutified Jew. Maybe 2000 years
of galut did it, but where is their emunah and bitachon in HKB'H?
We can understand they''re looking for a safe haven in case the
anti-semitism really gets out of hand but their excitement is very
distressing as if that's the future, instead of ahavat EY and the coming
of Moshiach tzdkeinu. Afraid they lost the meaning of what our
destiny is. Truly, reminds us of the time of yetziat Mitzrayim. But,
this time, H' will not allow any real Yid to be left behind whether he
understand that or not.
yiddel
They are also harming the klal. Rav Anava said that the more Jews there are in EY keeping Torah umitzvot the stronger our spiritual and political hold on the land is. Both Rab Kook and the Yanuka expressed that Jews not making aliya is delaying the geula. The usual refrain to this kind of comment is, I can't. Two things, there are obviously frum Jews who are capable of getting up and moving somewhere else, like this example, like the new community in Dubai, etc. and many, many more who are also capable. It's a question of ratzon. This includes for those who have difficult circumstances.Whatever the challenge one can always daven and take some small step.
DeleteAgree with you totally. But that is the galut, the galut of the mind.
Hitoreri
Safe haven?
ReplyDeleteIt's still a ghetto.
Making the target so much easier to locate.
Here in EY we have police and soldiers moving around ready in minutes...
There: You think a goyish neighbor will help you?
You think police will race over at a time of trouble??
-leah
If it was such a big mitzvah to live in Isreal why didn’t the Satmar rebbe move there? Or Lubavitcher rebbe ? Or all the other ones who live in America Rav Moshe Feinstein? Obviously there is something more Malky
ReplyDeleteBecause there was kiruv to do. Torah to teach... is there really so much to do now? Is that what you are doing there?
DeleteIs this because it is a mitzvah, or because who should be investing in OUR land (I didn't write state, but land), and not in the temporary refuge of the lands of the nations?
DeleteEveryone loves to cite that the Rambam never counted yishuv Eretz Yisrael as one of the 613 mitzvot as "proof" that we do not need to move there yet. However, if one actually learns the Rambam you will see he didn't have to. The way he explains halakha is that the leKhathilah (ideal) situation always includes being in the Land.
Yeah, I know we can go back and forth on this, but Rabbi Yoel of Satmar's nephew-in-law, the Klausenberger (Tzanz) Rebbe DID move to Israel. He picked up his entire community, and they moved to Netanya, ie. Qiryat Tzanz. He as behind the founding Laniado Hospital.
Unfortunately, it increasingly looks like we are headed for the 20% figure of Jews making it out this time around. And to be clear, those who do not make it out include those connecting with Christians they way they do. This is, at the very least, a form of stubbornly adhering to the exile culture, just the way the 80% ho perished in the darkness in Egypt did.
ReplyDeleteOne hope is like HaShem adjusted the manner of counting the 400 years of our time in Egypt, perhaps he will count all of those who think they are Jews, but actually are not, as part of those Jews lost, since they were never born: those resulting from intermarriage and fake conversions, and children of those fake converts.
It seems that some people have misinterpreted this blog post to be another call to make aliyah. Not so. I have failed to adequately make my point, so let me try again.
ReplyDeleteNot sure there is any actual Torah Judaism left in the United States and some of the worst problems we have here in EY wrt Judaism are being instigated by "frum" Jews from America. Maybe the greatest number of Erev Rav are from there since it counts like a latter-day Egypt.
So, this blog post. It's meant to point out a disturbing trend among the frum which is antithetical to Torah Judaism. Maybe they got on that "spectrum" and they are sliding up and down as it suits their tastes and because all they see around them reflect the same soul sickness, they are not even aware of it - that they have no yearning, no heartfelt desire to see Mashiach and the geulah shleimah. No plans to participate in it. The Chafetz Chaim did not relocate to EY either but he packed a bag and was ready to go and it's all he thought about day and night. He talked about it and taught about it all his life.
For all the complainers who don't find EY suitable for them, do they pray ceaselessly with tears for HKB"H to bring Mashiach to make it a perfect Jewish society where frum Jews can flourish or are they just hell-bent on building America up - the most hateful obstacle to our success.
And you who have no end of complaints against the way HKB"H is unveiling the geulah in our generation, imagine what people you would have identified with at Yetziat Mitzrayim in the midbar. Complaining, complaining, complaining.
Read the rest of the prophecy that I did not quote:
... I shall bring you to the wilderness of the peoples, and I shall contend with you there face to face. As I contended with your forefathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I contend with you, says the Lord God. And I shall cause you to pass under the rod, and I shall bring you into the transmission of the covenant. And I shall separate from you those who rebel and those who transgress against Me; from the land of their sojournings I shall take them, but to the land of Israel they shall not come, and you will know that I am the Lord.
YES
ReplyDeleteThinking about it again, I think what is disturbing about the Mountain View video, is how they make it sound so messianic! Geulah but in North Carolina! It's so saddening.
ReplyDeleteNess