GEDOLIM

I AM VERY UPSET THAT WE HAVE NO GEDOLIM OR RABONIM
TO LOOK UP TO TO-DAY.
LITVISHE, CHASIDISHE,
TAKE A LOOK AT SATMAR HOW CAN I LOOK UP TO THEM ?
THE TWO BROTHERS ARE FIGHTING.

BOBOV, THE TWO RABBIS ARE FIGHTING.
AND VISNITZ AND GER HAVE THERE OWN PROBLEMS.
BELZ HAVE HAD  PROBLEMS FOR YEARS.
I FORGOT PONEVEZ  AND OTHER LITVISHE YESHIVOTH.

I WOULD RATHER ADMIT THAT WE HAVE NO GEDOLIM TO-DAY
AND THEY ARE JUST THE SAME AS ORDINARY PEOPLE.
I DO NOT FIND ANYBODY WHO I CAN LOOK UP TO.
ALL THE EMPHASISE IS PUT ON TO CLOTH ETC,ETC,
BEHAVIOUR AND MIDDOS BEN ADOM LECHAVRO THE RABBONIM
DO NOT HAVE IT, SO HOW SHOULD THE CHASDDIM ? ? ?

BUT THEN I THOUGHT MAYBE THEY CAN'T BE GEDOLIM IN EVERY
POINT IN THEIR LIFE.
THEY CAN BE GEDOLIM IN ONE MIDAH OR BEHAVIOUR
OF THEIR LIVES.
EG: TZDOKA, LEARNING TORAH, LOVING ANOTHER JEW,
BUT IN THIS POINT WE HAVE LOTS OF JEWS WHO ARE GEDOLIM
EVEN IF THEY DO NOT COME FROM A REBBISHE OR RABBONUS
ORIGIN.

A JEW PRAYS AND BELIEVES IN G=D DIRECT.
NOT IN THINGS OR PEOPLE.

MR YITZCHOK LOBENSTEIN

SEEING IN YOUR PAPER THIS WEEK,
THE WONDERFUL PAGE PREPARED BY THE TALENTED, ELI SILBERMAN.
SHOWING THE PICTURES OF JULIUS LOBENSTEIN.
I SPECIALLY USE HIS GOYISHE NAME ,AS THAT IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF YIDDISHKEIT.

YOU WILL TELL ME THAT THE JEWS GOT OUT OF EGYPT ,BECAUSE THEY DID NOT CHANGE THERE NAMES ,
BUT MOSHE RABBEINU GOT HIS NAME AS THE POSSUK TELLS US ,FROM THE DAUGHTER OF PHARAOH .

I SPECIALLY LIKED THE PICTURE OF TWO GEDOLIM SITTING TOGETHER IN BOURNEMOUTH.
I WAS NEAR TO BOTH  OF THEM AND REMEMBER THEM VERY CLEARLY.
I CALL THEM BOTH GEDOLIM,
BECAUSE THE JOB OF A GODOL IS TO BUILD UP THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND SEE THE GOOD SIDE IN ALL THE JEWS.

AND THAT WAS JULIUS LOBENSTIEN AND THE PONOVEZER RAV .
THEY DID NOT CARE WHO OR WHERE YOU BELONGED TO .THEIR AIM WAS TO BUILD.
AND THIS GREATNESS I SAW IN THE GERER RABBE THE BEIS YISROEL WHEN I  WENT TO ERETZ YISROEL.

MY BROTHER AND I COULD GO AND ON WITH STORY'S ABOUT HATSADIK JULIUS LOBENSTEIN. ASK HIS SON JOE.
BUT I WILL FINISH WITH.
THESE PEOPLE NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THEMSELVES, JUST ABOUT OTHERS.


P.S. WHEN I WAS A  YOUNGSTER WE LIVED IN QUEEN ELIZABETH WALK
        OUR NEIGHBOURS IN ALLERTON ROAD WERE:
        RABBI DOMINITZ.
        RABBI  FUERSTIEN .
        RABBI DUNNER.
        RABBI SCHLOSS.
         AND YH"L RABBI TOVIA WEISS.
        DO YOU THINK I CAN GO THROUGH LIFE THINKING LIKE TO -DAY'S  PEOPLE ?