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Showing posts with label SATMAR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SATMAR. Show all posts

Thursday 19 January 2012

REBBES

Belz & Satmar; Peace Gestures(Tuesday, January 17th, 2012)

After years of distancing from one another there are now signs of a possible peace-making effort between Satmar and Belze, chareidi media in Israel reports Baruch Hashem.
On Monday, 21 Teves 5772, Gabbai R’ Shimon Wolf Klein and ten dayanim from Belz communities worldwide visited the tziyun of the Admor Bal Divrei Yoel ZY”A of Satmar in Kiryas Yoel in Monroe, NY.
The gabbai asked mechila from the tzaddik in the name of the Belzer Rebbe Shlita. “We are the emissaries of Rabbeinu Yissacher Dov Ben Chana, who sent us to ask mechila on that which compromised your kovod”.


The Belze delegation than visit the tziyun of the admor Beirach Moshe of Satmar zt”l and recited the same nusach seeking mechila.
According to Chadrei Chareidim, the dayanim shlita included HaGaon HaRav Tuvia Wettenshtein, HaGaon HaRav Moshe Shimon Binata, Rav Asher Eckstein, Rav Sholom Pesach Langsheim, Rav Wolf Ber Lerner and Rav Mordechai Galitzky.
There is now speculation that when the Satmar Rebbe Shlita visits Eretz Yisrael next month, he and the Belzer Rebbe will meet. They are after all brothers-in-law.
The dispute was the result of a drasha given by the Belzer Rebbe on motzei Simchas Torah in 5740. The Belzer Rebbe has made numerous efforts to make shalom over recent years.
Recently, it was reported that the Satmar Rebbe stated, “When the Rebbe will send a minyan of rabbonim and dayanim to the kever of the Divrei Yoel to ask mechila, the peace process will get underway”.

GABY LOCK SAYS:
I AM VERY PLEASED WITH THE BELZER REBBE'S MOVE.
NOW WE NEED THE REST OF THESE SO CALLED GEDOLIM TO MAKE PEACE.
BOBOV AND  THE SATMAR REBBES THEMSELVES.
I AM NOT FORGETTING THE LITVISHE, THE ARGUMENT IN PONIVEZ YESHIVA.
 WHAT ABOUT THE EDA  CHAREIDUS AND THE AGUDA.
LIKE G=D IS ONE ,WE THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE TO BE ONE.
WHEN THE ORTHODOX ARE ONE,
THE NON-ORTHODOX WILL ALSO WANT TO BE ONE
AND BECOME BAALEI TESHUVA.

Monday 26 September 2011

NEWSHEET NEWS UPDATE

LAST WEEKS NEWSHEET HAD 94 SIDES AND THE
UPDATE HAD 86 SIDES OF ADVERTS,

WHICH ARE NOT CHEAP.
AT LEAST £ 100 A SIDE ( THE SMALL BOXES COST CHEAPER
BUT ADD UP TO THE SAME ).

THERE ARE ADVERTS WHICH I DO NOT UNDERSTAND.
WHY THEY HAD TO PUT IN AN ADVERT,
SUCH AS SATMAR GIRLS CAMP;
ALL LOST PROPERTY WILL BE KEPT UNTIL
RHOSH  HASHONA.
DO THEY WANT TO INFORM US HOW GOOD
SATMAR  IS? ?
THAT THEY HAD A GIRL'S CAMP.

JUST TO RETURN THE LOST PROPERTY TO THE GIRLS
GIVE THEM A NOTE WHEN THEY LEAVE CAMP,
THAT MRS LANDAU HAS GOT THE LOST PROPERTY.
I AM SURE THAT THE CAMP IS SUPPORTED BY TZDOKA MONEY
AND THESE ADVERTS COST A LOT.

PEOPLE ARE SPENDING A LOT AND THE CHILDREN  HAVE
NO  SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY ! !
I HOPE THEY HAVE THE MONEY THEY ARE SPENDING,
NOT LIKE SOMEONE I KNOW WHO DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THAT
A CREDIT CARD HAS TO BE PAID BACK AND YOU OWE THE MONEY.

Thursday 18 August 2011

ZIONISIM

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.          

Sunday 14 August 2011

IGNORANCE

IN 1961/62 I WENT TO THE YESHIVAS MESIFTA AT 82/84 CAZENOVE ROAD.
THE YESHIVA WAS VERY SATMAR ORIENTATED.

THERE WAS A GOY-CLEANER THERE AND THEY CALLED HIM "ITCHE MEIR".
THE INTENTION WAS TO DEGRADE RABBI YITZCHOK MEIR LEVIN,
THE LEADER OF AGUDAS YISROEL.

THE SON-IN-LAW OF THE GERRER REBBE THE IMREI EMES ZT"L.
THEN  IN 1962 I LEFT THE MESIFTA AND WENT TO ERETZ YISROEL.
THE  FIRST THING MY COUSIN, MOSHE LEIB LOCK,DID
HE TOOK ME TO THE FRONT OF THE GERER BEIS HAMEDRASH
AND SHOWED ME RABBI ITCHE MEIR LEVIN,A YID WITH A SPODIK.
THE HAMODIA MAGAZINE 11 AUGUST 2011  HAD AN ARTICLE ON THE 40TH YAHRTZEIT OF
RABBI YITZCHOK MEIR LEVIN ZT"L.
THAT'S WHAT REMINDED ME OF THIS STORY.

THIS DOES NOT ONLY APPLY TO  THE BOYS OF THE MESIFTA AND SATMAR
BUT  TO THE REST OF THE CHASIDC ,LITVICHER AND ORTHODOX
FRUM WORLD.
THEY ARE SO IGNORANT WHAT GOES ON IN THE TORAH  WORLD,
LEARNING AND YIDISHKEIT BY OTHERS.
ONLY WHAT THEY SAW AND WERE TAUGHT THAT WHAT YIDDISHKEIT IS.

EVEN THOUGH THE SATMAR REBBE HAD A RIGHT TO BE AGAINST THE AGUDA ,
BEFORE THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND AFTER.
THE PEOPLE OF SATMAR HAVE NO IDEA OF THE RABBIS OF ALL COUNTRIES
BEFORE THE WAR AND AFTER THE WAR WHO WERE FOR AGUDA.
THAT'S WHAT MY COUSIN WANTED TO SHOW ME.
I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE STILL TO-DAY SPECIALLY IN SATMAR
WHO ARE SO IGNORANT OF THESE FACTS.

AND DO NOT TELL ME, IT IS NOT TRUE.
I AM ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO MIX WITH ALL CROWDS AND I SEE THE IGNORANCE.
BUT THE SAME IGNORANCE IS IN THE GERER BELZER AND AGUDA CROWDS.
THEY DO NOT REALISE THAT SATMAR IS FULL OF REAL CHASISDSHE YIDEN.

I WAS IN YESHIVA WHEN RABBI AHRON KOTTLER WAS NIFTAR
AND WAS AT HIS FUNERAL AND BURIAL IN HAR HMANOCHOS IN GIVAT SHUAL.
I PUSHED AND WAS AT THE FRONT OF THE GRAVE
( SO I SAW THIS WITH MY OWN EYES )
IT WAS A VERY DRY YEAR  A REAL DROUGHT IT WAS  ALREADY KISLEV  AND
NO RAIN,
WHEN THEY BURIED RABBI AHRON THEY PUT IN A WET RAG IN HIS LEFT HAND AND
A BOTTLE OF WATER IN HIS RIGHT .

THE CHEVRA KADISHE MAN SAID LOUD TO 
RABBI AHRON THIS IS A SEGULA THAT WHEN YOU GET TO THE NEXT WORLD
YOU SHOULD NOT FORGET US AND ASK FOR RAIN.
THAT NIGHT THE HEAVENS OPENED AND IT POURED FOR HOURS ON END
FILLING UP NEARLY ALL THE NEEDED WATER HOLES
I WAS SURPRISED THAT I DID NOT SEE THIS OPEN MIRACLE FROM G=D
REPORTED IN THE JEWISH DAILY THE HAMODIA.

SO I WENT UP TO A CHOSHEVER YID, RABBI ELIOZER BAIN ( A GERER CHOSID )
AND ASKED HIM WHY NOTHING OF THIS OPEN MIRACLE WAS REPORTED IN THE HAMODIA
HE WAS ONE OF THE EDITORS OF THE HAMODIA.
HE ANSWERED ME THAT THE WEATHER FORECAST HAD ALREADY SAID A DAY BEFORE THAT THE RAIN WAS COMING.
I AM SURE HAD THIS BEEN FROM ONE OF THE GERER  RABBIS
OR A CHASSIDISHER RABBI ,THE FRONT PAGE WOULD HAVE BEEN FULL.

THIS REMINDS ME OF A STORY
A YID CAME TO HEAVEN AND AN ANGEL TOOK HIM AROUND GAN EDEN
HE SHOWED HIM WHERE THE  SATMARS WERE LEARNING
THE LITVICHER WERE LEARNING AND THE LUBVITCHERS WERE LEARNING.
THE YID ASKED THE ANGEL WHY ARE THEY NOT LEARNING TOGETHER ?
THE ANGEL ANSWERED THAT IS PART OF THEIR GAN EDEN
THEY THINK THAT THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES.

WHAT IS OUR AIM IN LIFE

AS AN ORTHODOX FRUM JEW, MY AIMS IN LIFE ARE
TO BE NEAR TO G=D.

I DO THIS THROUGH LEARNING TORAH, KEEPING MITZVOS
AND I THINK ABOUT G=D, A LOT IN LIFE.
IF I SEE SOMEONE WHO DOES THIS MORE THAN I DO,I LOOK UP TO HIM OR HER
AS A LEADER IN YISROEL.

AFTER ADAM EATING FROM THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT,
GOOD AND BAD ARE MIXED UP IN A PERSON,
THERE CAN BE A PERSON WHO PRAYS VERY WELL BUT IS NOT TRUTHFUL IN MONEY MATTERS, EVEN RABBONIM AND RABBIS.
BUT THIS DOES NOT MAKE HIM NOT A RABBI OR ROV.

THIS IS A PROBLEM IN TO-DAY'S FRUM WORLD.
THERE ARE FEW PEOPLE, WHO HAVE PUT DOWN RULES WHO IS A FRUM JEW,AND WHO IS NOT,
SPECIALLY IN SATMAR THE MAIN POINT THERE IS BEING AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
IN GUR IT IS WOMEN BEING COMPLETELY SEGREGATED FROM THE MEN,
IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW THEY GO DRESSED.
THIS POINT IS BETTER IN SATMAR AS THE DRESSING OF WOMEN AND ZNIOS IS BETTER,
THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND MY POINT.

I HAVE NO TIME TO GO INTO LITVISHER, BELZ ,VISNITZ AND LUBAVITCH.
THE POINT IS THAT THEIR GEDOLIM MADE TO HOLD THEIR CROWDS IN YIDDISKEIT.
TO-DAY  WE HAVE BECOME A MIXED-UP CROWD.
EVERYBODY TRIES TO PUT THEIR WAY ( AS THAT IS CORRECT ) ON THE OTHER PERSON.
AND IF ANY GODOL  WHO COMES FROM A DIFFERENT PLACE WERE DIFFERENT POINTS WERE IMPORTANT,
THEY DEMONSTRATE AGAINST HIM SHOUT ABUSE AT HIM ETC,ETC,
THIS COMES FROM A LACK OF EDUCATION THAT GERMAN JEWS AND  HUNGARIAN JEWS POLISH JEWS ARE ALSO VERY FRUM JEWS AND HAVE A PLACE BY THE RIBONO SHEL OLAM.

A VERY CHOSHVER  ROV TOLD ME ABOUT RABBI STEINMAN ,"AREN'T THEY SCARED FOR THEIR FAMILY AND THEMSELVES ? 
RABBI STEINMAN IS A  VERY HOLY MAN AND HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND WHY  PEOPLE ARE NOT SCARED TO CALL HIM NAMES
EVEN IF HE THINKS DIFFERENTLY FROM  THE SATMAR REBBE?"

NOT LONG AGO SOMEONE INSULTED ME IN PUBLIC.
I HAVE LEARNED HARD HOW TO HEAR INSULTS AND NOT SAY A WORD.
A FEW WEEKS LATTER ONE OF THE PEOPLE HAD A VERY NASTY ACCIDENT.
THERE IS A G=D AND IT IS NOT A FREE WORLD
WHERE YOU THINK BECAUSE YOU ARE A SATMAR ,BELZ, GUR , ROV OR REBBE
YOU CAN DO AS YOU LIKE.
BRITIAN HAS THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW.
G=D'S ARM IS EVEN LONGER.

Friday 12 August 2011

MY LEARNING TORAH

THE MUSSAR SEFORIM SAY THAT IF YOU SEE THAT YOUR YETZER HORAH
PUTS A LOT OF EMPHASIS AND DISTURBS YOU ON DOING A CERTAIN MITZVAH.

YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT THIS MITZVAH HAS GREAT VALUE IN HEAVEN FOR YOU.
SOMEONE ONCE SAID TO ME:  " NO WONDER YOU LEARN ,
YOU AND YOUR TWIN BROTHER HAVE A MAD DESIRE TO LEARN".
I TOLD HIM,"  WE PRAYED VERY HARD FOR THIS THAT WE SHOULD LOVE TORAH LEARNING AND WENT TO GEDOLEI YISROEL FOR BROCHOS."

WE DID NOT ALWAYS HAVE THIS AND WE PRAYED EVERY DAY IN OUR PRAYERS.
" HASHEM,OUR G=D SWEETEN THE WORDS OF YOUR TORAH IN OUR MOUTH "
THIS I ALSO THANK G=D PLANTED INTO MY CHILDREN.

HOW DO I KNOW THAT MY TORAH LEARNING HAS A GREAT VALUE IN HEAVEN ?
BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE SPECIALLY IN SATMAR
WHEN THEY WANT TO GET EVEN WITH YOU FOR THE TRUTHFUL TELEVISION PROGRAM
I MADE  WHERE I JUST EXPLAINED TO THE NON-ORTHODOX JEWS WHAT THE DUTY OF A JEW IS.

HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE STUPID ALEX STROM FROM THE JEWISH TRIBUNE,
WRITING ABOUT IT , WANTING TO GET EVEN WITH ME ,
NON OF THE FRUMERS WOULD HAVE KNOWN ABOUT IT.
THE ONLY WAY PEOPLE TRY TO GET EVEN WITH  ME IS TO BREAK  MY  TORAH SHIURIM.
THIS I PRAY TO G=D THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DO.
MY TORAH MUST HAVE A GREAT PLACE IN HEAVEN
AND THAT IS MY TEST MAY G=D HELP ME.

Friday 29 July 2011

HIDABROOT

SOMEONE TOLD ME YESTERDAY THAT IN 1948 WHEN THE UN VOTE WAS TAKING PLACE TO ESTABLISH THE STATE OF ISRAEL THE SATMAR RABBI Z.L. SAID THAT THE VOTE WONT GO THROUGH AND THEY WILL NOT HAVE A STATE,
WELL HE WAS WRONG

THEN HE SAID THAT THE STATE WONT LAST MORE THEN THIRTY YEARS AND THAT THERE WILL NOT BE A GROWTH IN TORAH.
WELL THANK G-D HE WAS WRONG IN THAT TOO.

WHEN I WAS IN YESHIVA IN 1962 ,THE TO-DAY BELZR RABBI GOT A LOT OF HADROCHO.
( HE WAS STILL A BOCHER ) FROM THE GERER RABBI THE BEIS YISROEL Z.L.
( I SAW THAT WITH MY OWN EYES ).
HE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN MAKING HIM A RABBE.
( HE SAW IN HIM THE FUTURE GENERATION ) AND WHAT A REBBE IN THE 2000 NEEDS TO BE AND HAVE.

TO - DAY WHEN I SEE THE HIDABROOT WHICH THE BELZER RABBE HAS ESTABLISHED, .
I UNDERSTAND THE BEIS YISROEL.
THROUGH THE INTERNET AND THE T.V, CHANNELS WE HAVE A CHANCE TO REACH AND TEACH THOUSANDS AND MAYBE MILLIONS OF YIDEN WHAT TORAH IS.
THEY SAY WE SHOULD NOT MOVE AWAY FROM THE OLD WAYS.

DO I SEE THESE RABBES TRAVELING IN A HORSE AND CART OR NOT USING THE LUXURIES WHICH TIME HAS BROUGHT ?
I WAS MOST AMAZED TO SEE HOW MANY HEIMISHER CHASIDISER PEOPLE HAVE INTERNET.
SOMEONE EVEN SAID TO ME WATCHING YOUR PROGRAM ON INTERNET OR I POD IS NOT TELEVISION.

AND I AM NOT  TALKING JUST ABOUT ENGLAND.
THE  JEWISH TRIBUNE EVEN WRITES ABOUT IT ( DID THEY ASK THE RABBONIM )
WHICH CAUSED EVEN MORE FRUM PEOPLE TO WATCH
( I DID NOT MAKE THE PROGRAM FOR THEM ).
I HOPE B"H I HAVE OPENED  PEOPLE'S  EYES TO THE REAL PROBLEMS IN OUR SOCIETY.
BLACK MAIL, BLACK MAIL, AND AGAIN BLACK MAIL.

I FINISH WITH THE WORDS OF MY DEAR ESHES CHYEL WHICH THE LEV SIMCHA SAID TO ME
IN A YIDISHER WIFE DEPENDS THE WHOLE YIDISHER HOME
WE ARE FREE! ! !