YITZCHOCK LEVY WRITES IN THE LETTER PAGE OF THE JEWISH TRIBUNE
SEPTEMBER 6 2012:
OVERPRICED FLIGHTS TO ERETZ YISROEL.
MR LEVY ,THEY WANT US TO SEND THE CHILDREN TO LIVE IN ERETZ YISROEL
BUT THE RELIGOUS PARTIES MAKE NO EFFORT TO FORCE THE GOVERNMENT
TO MAKE CHEAPER FLIGHTS. SO THAT I CAN GO AND SEE MY CHILDREN AND
GRANDCHILDREN MORE THAN ONCE A YEAR. ( SOME PEOPLE CAN NOT AFFORD EVEN THAT ).
WHAT HAS HAPPENED LOTS OF FAMILIES HAVE LEFT THE COUNTRY.
ON THE INTERNET BESIDES SHMUTZ THERE ARE LOTS OF GOOD THINGS SUCH AS
SKYPE.
BUT THESE RABBONIM DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT .
I AM PLEASED THAT TELEPHONE CHARGES HAVE COME DOWN AND SOMETIMES
ARE EVEN FREE.
A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN I STILL HAD THE RADIO STATION
AND MEAT PRICES WENT UP AND UP
I WANTED TO MAKE A BOYCOTT OF MEAT FOR TWO WEEKS.
IF WE MAKE A BOYCOTT OF NOT TRAVELING TO ERETZ YISROEL
FOR A YEAR OR EVEN HALF A YEAR,
WE WILL SOON SEE THE PRICES COME DOWN.
THE BOYCOTT OF MEAT DID NOT WORK
BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE SO SPOILED THEY COULD NOT GO WITHOUT MEAT
FOR A WEEK OR TWO.
THE SAME IS WITH CHASSIDIM AND PARENTS TRAVELING TO ERETZ YISROEL.
AND AS SOON AS THE RABBONIM WERE SCARED OF MY RADIO STATION
FOR TELLING THE TRUTH,
THEY EMPLOYED PEOPLE TO GET IT CLOSED DOWN.
COUNTRIES AND RABBONIM ARE SCARED OF THE TRUTH.
SOMEBODY TOLD ME OFF FOR MAKING THE PROGRAM FOR TELEVISION
" TWO JEWS ON A CRUISE".
I ASKED HIM WHAT RIGHT DID YOU AND YOUR WIFE HAVE TO
WATCH TELEVISION ? ?
AND THE SAME WILL BE WITH THE INTERNET ASSIFA OR NO ASSIFA
THE RABBONIM AND RABBIS HAVE NOT TAUGHT OUR PEOPLE TO
CONTROL THEMSELVES BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG
GABY LOCK
gaby5706@gmail.com
LATELY I HAVE BEEN WITH MY DEAR WIFE
TO A FEW WEDDINGS.
AT THE WEDDING YOU HEAR SPEECHES WHAT A FINE CHOSEN HE IS
WHAT A FINE KALLA SHE IS, THANK G=D WHAT A MATCH.
MY WIFE SAID TO ME THAT THE RABBONIM ARE ALWAYS TALKING
AT THE WEDDING OF THE PAST.
WHAT ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THESE TWO YOUNG PEOPLE.
IS THE MATCH SO GREAT THAT THESE TWO YOUNGSTERS
UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY HAVE DONE,
THAT IN THEIR NEW LIFE THEY ARE NOT ONLY GOING
TO HAVE TO GIVE TIME AWAY TO UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER.
BUT IN THE NEAR FUTURE HE WILL HAVE TO GIVE TIME AWAY
FROM GOING TO HIS ROV ,OR REBBE, OR KOLLEL.
SHE WILL HAVE TO GIVE TIME AWAY FROM GOING SHOPPING
AND BEING WITH HER FRIENDS OR PARENTS.
A CHILD NEEDS TIME FROM ITS PARENTS
THEY ARE IMPRISONED BY THE
LITTLE SOUL THEY HAVE GIVEN LIFE TO.
THE RABBONIM DO NOT TEACH THAT A CHILD NEEDS, NOT ONLY MONEY
AND IF YOU HAVE MARRIED SOMEONE RICH ,YOU ARE SETUP FOR LIFE.
BUT IT NEEDS ATTENTION AND TIME FOR THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF ITS LIFE.
EVERYONE OF THE DROPOUTS I HAVE MET,
DID NOT GET ENOUGH ATTENTION AND TIME FROM THE PARENTS.
SO CHOSEN AND KALLA BEFORE YOU GET MARRIED, THINK
AM I READY TO BRING A CHILD ON THIS WORLD AND GIVE IT MY TIME?
Yiddishkeit is keeping the Torah that's what made us into Jews.
On the Internet you can see things
that a Jewish person should not watch.
The same is in newspapers etc, etc,.
A frum Jew is a person who learns Torah and that gets him or her a clean mind.
A person in his lifetime will go up and down
but this does not make a person less Jewish
as that is the purpose of life.
To overcome your tests.
IT IS INTERESTING THAT ON THE INTERNET YOU GET WEB SITES VIDEOSFROM EVERY FRUM ORGANISATION AND SPECIALLY CHASSIDIC ONES.
THE RABBONIM AND RABBIS PUT UP NOTICES
YOU SHOULD NOT WATCH INTERNET.
BUT THE INTERNET IS FULL OF THEM? ?
FREED BOCHUR BACK HOME !
WHEN I READ THESE HEADLINES IN THE JEWISH TRIBUNE AND
ALL THE OTHER ORTHODOX NEWSPAPERS ARE ALL THE SAME,
IF THE EFFORT, TIME AND MONEY SPENT ON GETTING THIS
BOCHUR BACK FROM JAPAN , ( WHICH WAS HIS OWN FAULT )
WOULD HAVE BEEN SPENT ON HELPING BOYS, GIRLS
AND FAMILIES.
THERE WOULD BE VERY LITTLE PROBLEMS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
THAN OUR COMMUNITY PICTURE WOULD HAVE BEEN AS ROSY
AS THE ORTHODOX PAPERS MAKE IT APPEAR.
I AM ASTONISHED THAT THE RABBONIM AND ASKONIM IN THE FRUM JEWISH
COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD ARE BLIND TO THE PROBLEMS
THAT WE ,THE ORTHODOX PEOPLE FACE,
IN OUR CHILDREN AND ADULTS.
NUMBER ONE: HOUSING.
LOTS OF ORTHODOX JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE HOUSES AND BLOCKS
OF FLATS IN STAMFORD HILL,
THERE IS A RICH FAMILY WHOM I KNOW
WOULD RATHER LEAVE THE BLOCK OF HOUSES EMPTY,
THEN HELP A FAMILY NOT TO LIVE IN SQUALOR.
I HAVE SEEN HOW SOME OF THESE FAMILIES LIVE WITH SIX OR MORE CHILDREN.
I WILL NOT BE SURPRISED WHEN IN YEARS TO COME THE RABBONIM
WILL HAVE A PROBLEM WITH BIRTH CONTROL.
AS LOTS OF PARENTS COME TO ME THAT THE SCHOOLS
JUST REFUSE TO TAKE IN THEIR CHILDREN
AND THE PARENTS LIVES' BECOMES A MISERY.
THEY FIGHT BECAUSE THERE IS NOT ENOUGH ROOM TO LIVE IN
THE HOUSE.
THE CHILDREN DO NOT HAVE A SCHOOL TO GO TO
THEN THEY RUN TO COUNSELLORS AND RABBONIM.
BUT IT IS TOO LATE THE ROT HAS SET IN.
PLEASE RABBONIM AND ASKONIM
DO NOT WORRY SO MUCH ABOUT THE BOYS IN JAPAN
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING.
I AM WRITING THIS BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE ASKED ME TO WRITE IT
AND IT IS THE WHOLE TRUTH, OPEN YOUR EYES AND
LOOK AROUND YOU.
I LOVE LEARNING TORAH,
SHASS AND POSKIM THAT IS
MY BIGGEST DREAM OF LIFE.
IN LAST WEEK'S PARSHA, RE'EH IT STARTS:
" BEHOLD I SET BEFORE YOU A BLESSING AND A CURSE.
THE BLESSING.
IF YOU LISTEN TO THE COMMANDMENTS,
THE CURSE,
IF YOU SHALL NOT LISTEN TO THE COMMANDMENTS."
RE'EH WRITTEN IN THE SINGULAR,
LIFNEICHEM WRITTEN IN THE PLURAL.
IF ONE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO REBUKE,
A GROUP ( PLURAL ) THAT WILL PROBABLY NOT LISTEN,
HE SHOULD DO IT REGARDLESS THE UNLIKELY CHANCE
THAT ONE PERSON ( SINGULAR ) MIGHT BE INSPIRED.
THE TORAH TELLS US TO REFRAIN FROM DOING THINGS,
DISTANCE OURSELVES FROM THE PRACTICES OF NON-JEWS.
AN EXAMPLE: IT MAY BE THAT IT IS FORBIDDEN FOR US TO
PLANT TREES TO DECORATE OUR SHULS,
BECAUSE OF THE PROHIBITION OF FOLLOWING THE
STATUTES OF THE NON-JEWS.
INDEED IN HIS TESHUVOS THE MAHARSHAM RULES
THAT,FOR THIS REASON, IN AREAS WHERE THE NON-JEWS
HAVE SUCH A PRACTICE IT IS FORBIDDEN FOR JEWS TO
PLANT TREES.
MY QUESTION TO THE RABBIS AND RABBONIM,
WHY DO THEY NOT SHOW THE WAY
SPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO HOLIDAYS.
NOT FOLLOWING THE WAY OF THE NON-JEWS.
EVERYTHING I HAVE DONE IS WITH YIREI SHAMAYIM
AND MESIRUS NEFESH OF SELF SACRIFICE
TO PASS ON THE MESSAGE OF G=D
OF TORAH AND MITZVOS,
TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE.
BY MY REBBE, THE BEIS YISROEL, CARED ABOUT THE INDIVIDUAL PERSON.
I ASKED MY DEAR WIFE, " DO YOU THINK IN TODAY'S
CASSIDIC AND JEWISH ORGANISATIONS,
THE RABBIS OR THE RABBONIM CARE ABOUT THE INDIVIDUAL PERSON?
EVERYBODY NEEDS RECOGNITION AND WANTS TO BE VALUED."
NOT JUST THE RICH OR PEOPLE WHO THE CASSIDUS OR ORGANISATION
CAN HAVE VALUE FROM.
IF THESE RABBIS OR RABBONIM DON'T GIVE THE RECOGNITION
THEY NEED,THEY WILL GET IT FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.
THE ONLY THING THAT OSHER SHAPIRO DOES IS
TO STOP THE DROP-OUTS BECOMING DROP-OUTS.
HE GIVES THEM TIME, RESPECT AND RECOGNITION
BUT SOMETIMES THE PAIN FROM THE PARENTS NOT
UNDERSTANDING THE CHILDREN HAS CAUSED PAIN THAT
CAN NOT BE RECTIFIED.
THE PARENTS AND THE LEADERS OF THE COMMUNITY SAY
TO THEM " YOU ARE CAUSING US EMBARRASSMENT
BY THE WAY YOU BEHAVE."
THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS.
NEARLY ALL MY NEIGHBORS HAVE GONE ON HOLIDAYS, POOR OR RICH.
YOU MUST NOT SAY I CAN NOT AFFORD IT.
EVEN IF YOU CAN'T, THE CHILDREN
MUST NOT KNOW THAT YOU CAN NOT AFFORD IT.
IT IS AN EMBARRASSMENT TO SAY TO THE CHILDREN
WE ARE CAN NOT A AFFORD IT.
YOUR SITUATION IN LIFE IS FROM G=D.
BUT WE DO NOT TEACH THIS TO THE CHILDREN.
RABBBI AND RABBONIM LIVE THERE LIVES
AND PASS ON THE WRONG VALUES IN LIFE
MY DEAR WIFE WHO WAS ON THE TELEVISION PROGRAM, SHOOK HANDS WITH THE GOY.
SHE COMES FROM HOLLAND WHERE EVERY SHABBOS
AFTER DAVENING YOU SHOOK HANDS WITH THE ROV.
WHEN SHE WENT TO SEM. AT EIGHTEEN SHE CHANGED THAT
AND TOLD THE RABBONIM IN HOLLAND THAT SHE CAN NOT
SHAKE HANDS WITH THEM ANYMORE.
THEY WERE VERY ANGRY WITH HER BUT SHE HAD GUTS.
AS SHE SAID IN THE PROGRAM THIS WAS A MISTAKE.
IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS WE HAVE HAD A LOT OF TRAGEDIES SPECIALY IN STAMFORD HILL.
THE RABBONIN AND RABBIS ARE QUIET AS THEY ARE ON HOLIDAY
SOME IN NAZI AUSTRIA OTHERS IN ANTI-SEMITIC SWITZERLAND, ARE THESE NOT SIGNS FROM G=D TO REPENT OUR WAYS.
SPECIALLY IN BEHAVIOUR ONE TO THE OTHER.
WHEN ARE THE RABBONIN RABBIS GOING TO HAVE THE GUTS
OF MY WIFE AND TELL THEMSELVES! !
THE RESPONSIBILITY THEY HAVE AS RABBONIM AND RABBIS.
IT IS SAD THAT GABY LOCK ON HIS BLOG HAS TO WRITE ABOUT THIS.
BUT MY DEAR WIFE HAS A LIST WHERE SHE PRAYS EVERY DAY
IN THE MORNING FOR ALL THE CHOLIM IN TOWN ETC,ETC,
AND WHEN SHE HEARS ONE OF THEM HAS PASSED AWAY
SHE SITS DOWN AND CRIES HER EYES OUT,
DO THESE RABBONIM AND RABBIS FEEL THE TROUBLES,
OF ANOTHER PERSON AS IF IT WAS THEIR OWN?
I LATELY SAW A VIDEO OF SOME PEOPLE, I THINK IT WAS IN THE U.S.A.
DEMONSTRATING AGAINST RABBI STEINMAN SHOUTING AGAINST HIM
YEMACH SHEMO !
THE REASON BEING THAT HE DOES NOT AGREE WITH SATMAR ,ON THE POINTS
OF AGUDAS YISROEL.
RABBI ELIEZER DOVID FRIEDMAN THE ROV OF BELZ 99 BETHUNE ROAD IN LONDON TOLD ME A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN THERE WAS A DEMONSTRATION AGAINST
RABBI STEINMAN IN GOLDERS GREEN:
"HE KNOWS RABBI STEINMAN FROM YEARS AGO AND THAT HE IS A KODOSH VETOHOR".
EVEN THOUGH HE DOES NOT THINK LIKE SATMAR,
( SPECIALLY SATMARES HAVE THAT, WAY THAT THEY ARE INSULTING AND ABUSIVE WITH BAD LANGUAGE TO ANYONE WHO DOES NOT THINK LIKE THEM )
IT EASY TO JOIN THERE RANKS AND BECOME A SATMARER.
YOU CAN DO WHAT EVER YOU LIKE AS LONG AS YOU ARE AGAINST
THE STATE AND AGAINST AGUDA YISROEL.
FOR JOINING THE KNESSET IN ISRAEL.
WHICH THEY DID WITH THE BLESSING OF THE GEDOLIM.
TO HELP THE JEWS OF ISRAEL GET THEIR RIGHTS IN THE STATE
THEY ARE ZIONISTS ACCORDING TO SATMAR.
HOWEVER FRUM AND SHOMER TORAH UMTZVOS YOU ARE, HAS NO VALUE
IF YOU SUPPORT THE AGUDA THATS THE WAY THEY THINK.
I DO NOT THINK THAT THE HOLY SATMAR REBBE REALLY THOUGHT THAT.
LOTS OF PEOPLE HAVE JOINED THEIR RANKS AND THEY HAVE BECOME A BIG CROWD WHO HAVE TAKEN THAT ATTITUDE AS THE SATMAR CHASIDUS.
LOTS OF RABBONIM AND EVEN OTHER RABBIS FEEL THAT IF THEY HAVE A BIG CROWD BEHIND THEM WHICH SATMAR HAS, THEY BECOME IMPORTANT,
THAT THEY ARE BIG RABBONIM OR RABBIS,
SO IT IS IN THEIR INTEREST TO BE ACCEPTED BY THE SATMAR CHASSIDIM.
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE THINKS LIKE THESE RABONIM .
NOT WHETHER A THING IS RIGHT OR WRONG JUST BY THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE
BEHIND THEM.
AND THESE RABBONIM YOU CAN'T EVEN GET A PROPER DIN TORAH IF A THING IS RIGHT OR WRONG.
THEY JUST LOOK AT WHAT SATMAR WILL SAY.
THAT IS WHY SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THE RABBONIM TODAY.
ANYTHING SATMAR SAYS IS RIGHT.
