CHILLUL HASHEM

I WAS PLEASED TO READ TWO LETTERS  11 AUGUST  2011.
ONE IN THE JEWISH TRIBUNE BY MENASCHE SCHARF, AND THE SECOND ONE BY YITZCHOK KORNBLUH IN THE HAMODIA.
THESE TWO STORIES ARE THE REAL CHILLUL HASHEM ,IN OUR COMMUNITY.
NOT GABY LOCK  WITH HIS DEAR WIFE, GOING ON TELEVISION EXPLAINING WHAT IS TRUE YIDDISHKEIT.
MR ALEX STROM DO YO U GET THE MESSAGE ? ?
ALSO MR YAKOV OSTRICHER OF SATMAR  26 C.C. ? ?

IN THE HAMODIA MR YITZCHOK KORNBLUH  WRITES:
"I WAS SHOCKED AND SADDENED AS EVERYBODY ELSE WAS OF THE OCCURRENCE IN TOTTENHAM,NORTH LONDON ON SATURDAY NIGHT FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF A YOUNG MAN".
WHAT IS MORE DISTURBING IS THAT SOME MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY WERE SEEN BY THE WORLD MEDIA, IN FULL CHASSIDIC REGALIA MILLING, AROUND ALMOST IN CARNIVAL MODE AMONGST THESE RIOTERS.

HAVE OUR PEOPLE TAKEN LEAVE OF THEIR SENSES ?? ? ? ?
WOMEN WERE SEEN WHEELING BABIES IN BUGGIES, WHERE ARE THE BRAINS OF THESE FAMILIES IN TURNING UP,
AT SUCH EVENTS, RUTHLESS THUGS WHO WOULD STOP AT NOTHING TO THRUST A KNIFE INTO AN INNOCENT AND UNCONNECTED BYSTANDER.

MENASCHE SCHARF WRITES IN THE JEWISH TRIBUNE:
HE SAW A YONG BOCHUR , MERELY THIRTEEN ,WAITING TO CATCH A LIFT TO GOLDERS GREEN FROM FINSBURY PARK OF ALL PLACES THE MORNING AFTER A SECOND NIGHT OF LOOTING AND RIOTS.
JUST WEEKS AFTER THE TERRIBLE "LEIBELE "ATROCITY AND THIS BOY IS LOOKING FOR A LIFT FROM STRANGERS.
"HOW COULD I EXPLAIN THE GRAVE CONSEQUENCES WITHOUT RUNNING THE RISK OF BEING LABELLED A RAVING LUNATIC FOR SUGGESTING TO A YIDDISHE MAMMA THAT SHE DOESN'T CARE ENOUGH FOR HER CHILD" .

MR KORNBLUH AND MR SCHARF, I SEE LOTS OF TIMES PARENTS WHO, WHEN THEY GET MARRIED AT SEVENTEEN NEVER UNDERSTOOD THAT BY EIGHTEEN THEY COULD BE A PARENT
AND ARE NOT READY TO LOOK AFTER THIS CHILD.
IF THE RABBONIM  AND LAY LEADERS DO NOT OPEN THEIR EYES AND MOUTH WE WILL HAVE TRAGEDY AFTER TRAGEDY
CHASH VESHOLAM.
                                          

COPYING OTHERS

ABOUT A HUNDRED YEARS AGO A MAN CAME TO A TOWN, ON HIS HORSE.
A PERSON CAME UP TO HIM AND TOLD HIM
NOT TO RIDE AROUND IN THIS TOWN ON A HORSE.
AS IN THIS TOWN EVERYBODY RIDES AROUND ON A BROOM STICK ,
AND THINKS IT IS A HORSE.

HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO.
SHOULD  HE RIDE AROUND ON A BROOM STICK, LIKE THE REST OF THE TOWN ?
OR SHOULD HE RIDE AROUND ON HIS HORSE ?
IF HE RIDES AROUND ON A HORSE HE IS MAD BY THEM,
IF HE RIDES AROUND ON A BROOM STICK HE WILL BE MAD IN HIS OWN EYES.
THE QUESTION IS WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO BE MAD IN YOUR EYES ,
OR BE MAD IN OTHER PEOPLE'S  EYES ?

HE WENT TO ASK THE RABBI OF THE TOWN WHAT TO DO.
THE RABBI TOLD HIM TO DO LIKE THE REST OF THE TOWN ,
BUT YOU SHOULD NOT THINK THAT THIS BROOM STICK IS A HORSE ,YOU SHOULD KNOW  THAT IT IS A BROOM STICK.
I HAVE NOT GOT THE PATIENCE TO EXPLAIN THIS LESSON OF LIFE MORE CLEARLY.

FROM THE PEN OF FRADEL BERGER

FRADEL BERGER WAS ILL FOR TWO YEARS BEFORE SHE WAS PLUCKED FROM OUR MIDST AT THE YOUNG AGE OF 53 (1929-1983).
AS SHE WAS DRIFTING INTO UNCONSCIOUSNESS, SHE SAID PLEASE PASS ON MY POEMS.
SHE FELT HASHEM'S PRESENCE AND GUIDING HAND AS IS EXPRESSED IN MANY OF HER POEMS.


                                                                L I F E


                                                       Life is a mixture
                                                       Of sunshine and rain
                                                       Laughter and teardrops
                                                       Pleasure and pain
                                                       Low tides and high tides
                                                       Triumphs, defeats
                                                       Losses and gains
                                                       But ALWAYS in ALL WAYS
                                                       Hashem is guiding and leading
                                                       And He alone knows
                                                       The things we're most needing
                                                       When he sends sorrow
                                                       Or some dreaded affliction
                                                       Be assured that it comes
                                                       With Hashem's benediction
                                                       And if we accept
                                                       That it's given with love
                                                       We'll be showered with blessings
                                                       From Hashem above

KIDDUSH HASHEM

ABOUT FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, I WAS FLYING FROM LONDON HEATHROW AIR PORT, BY BRITISH AIRWAYS TO TEL-AVIV.
WE FLEW ON A JUMBO-JET WHICH HAD TEN SEATS IN A ROW,
THREE THEN FOUR AND THREE AGAIN.

BEHIND ME IN THE ROW OF FOUR THERE WERE TWO COUPLES FROM HAIFA ISRAEL.
THEY HAD A BOOK SHOP IN HADAR, HAR CARMEL IN HAIFA .
THEIR FAMILY NAMES WERE "DERBAMDIGER",
A VERY FAMOUS NAME BY JEWISH PEOPLE "DERBAMDIGER" THE HOLY BERDICHOVER REBBE'S NAME.

WHEN THEY WERE DISTRIBUTING THE MEALS, THEY HAD 102 KEDASIA MEALS.

AND THEN THEY GAVE KOSHER MEALS FROM THE EL-AL KITCHEN IN HEATROW AIR PORT, WHICH WAS UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE FEDERATION.
AND THEN THEY GAVE OUT BRITISH AIRWAYS MEALS WHICH WERE NOT KOSHER.
YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THIS PLANE HAD OVER FOUR HUNDRED PASSENGERS. NOT ALL WERE JEWISH.

I WAS SITING IN THE ROW OF FOUR AND BEHIND IN THE ROW OF FOUR WERE SITTING THE TWO COUPLES DERBARMDIGER.
THEY OF COURSE DID NOT TAKE THE KEDASIA MEAL.
AND THEY ALSO DID NOT WANT THE FEDERATION MEALS.
THEY ASKED FOR THE BRITISH AIRWAYS MEALS WHICH CONTAINED HAM ( PIG ) ! ! !

AS SOON AS I OBSERVED THAT, I TURNED AROUND TO THEM AND TOLD THEM, " I WILL NOT LET YOU EAT PIG."

A CHASSIDISHE MAN SITTING NEXT TO ME SAID," DON'T MAKE A CHILLUL HASHEM".
I SAID TO HIM TO LET THEM EAT PIG WAS A CHILLUL HASHEM, TO STOP THEM,
IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW, WAS A KIDDUSH HASHEM.

I ALSO SAID TO HIM;

WE THINK WE HAVE TO BE LIKED BY EVERYONE IS A KIDDUSH HASHEM?
MAKING A TOLLERANT AND UNDERSTANDING IMPRESSION AND LETTING THEM EAT PIG ( they have a right to their way in life)
IS A DOWN RIGHT CHILLUL HASHEM.

THE DERBARMDIGER COUPLE SAID TO ME IN YIDDISH; " WHAT CAN YOU DO" ? I SAID TO THEM " YOU WILL SEE WHAT I CAN DO".

I GOT UP ON MY SEAT AND STARTED SHOUTING; "PIG THESE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE ABOUT TO EAT PIG".
I EXPLAINED TO THE NON-SPEAKING HEBREW IN ENGLISH, AND THEN TO THE HEBREW SPEAKING PEOPLE IN HEBREW; "THERE IS KOSHER AVAILABLE THEY DO NOT HAVE TO EAT TREIF (PIG)".
YOU CAN NOT IMAGINE HOW THE NON ORTHODOX PEOPLE RAN UP TO THEM, HE IS RIGHT THERE IS KOSHER AVAILABLE, EAT KOSHER!

ONE OF THE COUPLES SHOUTED AT ME. "GO INTO THE ARMY" !
I SAID TO HIM; " YOU HAVE CHILDREN IN THE ARMY, THEY WILL DIE AND YOU WILL SHOUT AT G=D WHY DID THEY DIE, YOU KNOW WHY, BECAUSE YOU EAT PIG AND YOU DO NOT RESPECT G=D'S TORAH, WHY SHOULD G=D RESPECT YOU?
THIS IS CLEARLY WRITTEN IN THE TORAH.
AS SOON AS I SAID THIS THEY REFRAINED FROM EATING THE HAM.

WE HAVE TO LEARN WHAT IS A CHILLUL HASHEM AND WHAT IS A KIDDUSH HASHEM.

THE JEWISH TRIBUNE

A FEW YEARS BACK BEFORE THE NEWSHEET AND UPDATE,
I HEARD THAT THE LONDON JEWISH TRIBUNE WAS IN TROUBLE.
SO I WENT TO ITCHY MEIR CYMERMAN, I GAVE HIM AN IDEA,
" MAKE THE TRIBUNE FREE AND DISTRIBUTE IT TO ALL HOUSEHOLDS IN STAMFORD HILL, GOLDERS GREEN,  MANCHESTER, AND GATESHEAD.
GIVE HALF A PAGE FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS WEDDING CARDS FREE, (THAT IS TWO INVITATIONS ON ONE PAGE)"
LOOK WHERE THE NEWSHEET AND UPDATE ARE TO-DAY.

JOE LOBESTIEN HAS DONE A  HEART WARMING THING, GIVING A FEW LINES OF CREDIT,
TO FACES FROM THE PAST, EDITOR ELI SILBERMAN.
ONLY BECAUSE A FEW WEEKS AGO, HE MADE A" FACES FROM THE PAST" ON JOE'S  FATHER.
BUT THAT IS BETTER THEN THE BALAY TESUVA ( B.T. ) EDITOR AND DIRECTOR OF THE TRIBUNE AND AGUDA.
WHOM I HAD TO BEG SIX MONTH AGO, TO PUT ELI'S NAME ON THE PAGE OF "FACES FROM THE PAST."

MARTIN .D. STERN FROM SALFORD MANCHESTER WRITES;
A VERY SENSIBLE LETTER, ABOUT SEGREGATION ON THE BUSES IN ISRAEL.
( WE SHOULD SERIOUSLY THINK OF HIM TAKING OVER  HERE AND THERE )
ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO I WAS IN ISRAEL WITH MY WIFE, WE GOT ON  THE 402  BUS IN JERUSALEM
I SET DOWN NEXT TO MY WIFE, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BUS, THE END OF THE MEN'S PART.
OTHER CHASIDIM GETTING ON THE BUS DID NOT CARE, IT WAS CHOLEY MOED AND I HAD MY SPODIK ON.

A GERER CHOSSID GOT ON THE BUS AND OBJECTED, ME SITTING NEXT TO MY DEAR WIFE.
I DO NOT ARGUE QUIETLY,
I TOLD HIM THAT I HAD A HETTER FROM A ROV
HE ASKED ME WHICH ROV?
I SAID THE ROV THAT GAVE US CHOPA  KIDUSHIN,
TO WHICH ALL THE PEOPLE ON THE BUS CLAPPED THEIR HANDS.

THE PROBLEM IS THAT GERER CHASSIDIM MAKE THEIR  YIDDISHKEIT IN SEGREGATING THE MEN AND WOMEN.
THE REST OF FAMILY  TZNIUS DOES NOT MATTER TO THEM.
THE LEV SIMCHA TOLD ME PERSONALLY BEFORE MY CHASUNA, (I WAS VERY NEAR TO HIM)
THE WOMEN ARE THE FOUNDATION OF EVERY  JEWISH HOUSE AND IN A JEWISH WOMAN LIES HOW THE JEWISH CHILDREN  WILL LOOK.
THE CHILDREN HAVE TO SEE THE LOVE OF G=D AND THE LOVE OF YOUR JEWISH PARTNER THESE GO TOGETHER.

LONELINESS AND ISOLATION

I HAVE TO START BY TELLING YOU, THAT EVERY STORY I WRITE ARE NOT FANTASY BUT TRUE.
A FEW YEARS AGO I WAS VERY DOWN.
ONE FRIDAY NIGHT I DID NOT LET IT EFFECT MY FAMILY.
AFTER EATING, I WENT TO BED AND AS I WAS LYING IN BED,
I WAS THINKING A LOT ABOUT MY LIFE,
THE ISOLATION OF PEOPLE NOT UNDERSTANDING ME AND THE LONELINESS THIS BROUGHT.

I DREAMT  THAT THE BEIS YISROEL  Z.L.,
MY RABBI, I MET HIM IN MY DREAM AND TOLD HIM THAT I HAVE NO FRIENDS,
PEOPLE I THOUGHT, WERE MY FRIENDS, AS SOON AS THEY DID  NOT LIKE THINGS I DID.
DIDN'T EVEN WANT AN EXPLANATION  OR TO DEBATE IF I WAS RIGHT OR WRONG,
STOPPED TALKING TO ME INSULTED ME ETC,ETC,
THE REBBE TOLD ME TO MAKE G=D YOUR FRIEND.
WHICH I DID, I TRAINED MY IMAGINATION TO THINK THAT THE RIBONO SHEL OLAM WAS STANDING NEXT TO ME AND
I USED TO TALK TO HIM ABOUT ALL MY PROBLEMS.

IF I WAS SITTING IN A SHIUR AND DID NOT UNDERSTAND SOMETHING, 
I USED TO TURN TO MY GOOD FRIEND TO OPEN MY MIND.
THE SAME WAS IF I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND SOMETHING GOING WRONG ON THE LAPTOP, ETC,ETC,
I ALWAYS TURNED TO MY BEST FRIEND, WHO ACCEPTED ME IN MY CIRCUMSTANCES,WHAT EVER I DID.

TODAY I HAVE NO PROBLEMS IN UNDERSTANDING EVERYTHING, I JUST TURN TO MY BEST FRIEND AND HE HELPS ME.

ONE SHABBOS MORNING I WAS WALKING IN STAMFORD HILL ON MY WAY TO DAVEN .
A FEW GOYIM WERE COMING OPPOSITE ME, THEY HAD TWO BIG DOGS WITH THEM.
THEY RELEASED THE DOGS AND TOLD THEM TO ATTACK ME.
I TURNED TO MY TRUSTWORTHY FRIEND, WHAT DO I DO ?
THE DOGS CAME WITHIN TWO FEET OF ME WENT QUIET STOPPED BARKING.
THE GOYIM TRIED TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO ATTACK ME BUT THEY WOULD NOT MOVE.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BELIEVE ME YOU CAN ALL TRY IT.

TORAH

THE TORAH IS THE BOOK WHICH TELLS US WHAT G=D WANTS, FROM THE HUMAN RACE AND THE PURPOSE OF THIS WORLD.
ONLY JEWS , AS IS WRITTEN IN THE TORAH ON MOUNT SINAI WERE THE CHOSEN PEOPLE ,( I DO NOT KNOW WHY ),
HAVE A COMMITMENT FROM G=D,TO KEEP THE 613 MITZVOS WRITTEN IN THE TORAH.

BUT EVERYBODY HAS A COMMITMENT, TO BELIEVE THAT THE WORLD IS G=D'S AND HE WANTS US TO LIVE A LIFE OF BELIEVING .
BUT THE HUMAN RACE, JEWS AND NON JEWS, WANT SECURITY AND CAN NOT BELIEVE IN SOMETHING THEY CANT SEE.
AND THE MORE WE TRY TO MAKE OUR LIFE SECURE IN COUNTRIES, MONEY,ETC.ETC,
HE CAUSES DISASTERS IN THE WORLD,EARTH QUAKES AND TSUNAMIS THE MONEY MARKET COLLAPSING.
COMPANIES GO BUST AND OUR SECURITY. OF EMPLOYMENT GOES DOWN THE DRAIN.

WE HAVE TO RETURN TO BELIEVING IN G=D AND SAYING A LITTLE PRAYER AND THANKING HIM EVERY DAY.
THAT'S WHAT JEWISH LIFE AND NON JEWISH LIFE IS ALL ABOUT.
BY HOOK OR BY CROOK G=D WILL MAKE US SEE IN THE END THAT THERE IS NO RELIABILITY ONLY TO BELIEVE.
THAT'S THE TEST OF LIFE FOR EVERYONE.

GATESHEAD YESHIVA

IN THE JEWISH TRIBUNE 21 JULY 2011

THE GATESHEAD YESHIVA WAS STARTED BY A SMALL GROUP OF IDEALISTIC JEWS.

BUT THIS DID NOT STAY LIKE THAT.

AS SOON AS RAV MATTISYOHU SALOMON LEFT AND THE DISTINCT IMPRINT,

OF RABBI MATTISYOHU SALOMON.
GENERATION OF GATESHEAD GRADUATES WENT, HIS NAME SYNONYMOUSLY WITH THE YESHIVA
AND THE HUNDREDS OF BNEI TORAH WHO CAME UNDER HIS INFLUENCE,INCULDING MY SON.

THE UNIQUE FACTS OF GATESHEAD YESHIVA IS IT'S ACCEPTANCE POLICY OF ANY SERIOUS TALMID

REGARDLESS OF HIS BACKGROUND.
HERE IN ONE SINGLE BEIS HAMEDRASH ONE CAN FIND YIDDISH-SPEAKING CHASSIDIM,
FRENCH SPEAKING SEPHARDIM.
AS WELL AS THE MAJORITY ENGLISH BOCHURIM .

THIS ALL CHANGED WHEN THE CHASSIDIM HATING MONEY LOVING RAV YOSEF ARON OPPENHEIMER

RID THE YESHIVA OF ALL THE CHASDISHER BOCHERIM UNLESS YOU HAD MONEY
BUT THE CHASIDISHER YESHIVAS ARE THE SAME.

YOU HAVE NO PLACE UNLESS YOU HAVE MONEY.

SADLY IT IS THE SAME IN GIRLS SCHOOLS AND CHADORIM.
PLEASE DON'T BOTHER ME ANY MORE WITH DROP-OUTS.

ELAZER ABUCHATZEI​RA

THE MAN WHO STABBED TO DEATH ,RABBI ELAZER ABUCHATZEIRA
WAS UPSET THAT A BLESSING HE HAD RECEIVED FROM THE RELIGIOUS FIGURE,
DID NOT MATERIALIZE.
ISRAEL'S CHIEF RABBI ,YONA METZGER
SHOULD KNOW BETTER
THEN BY SAYING THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE,
HISTORY IS FULL OF THAT,
ZECHARIA HANOVI , TZOM GEDALIA.

WE ASK OURSELVES HOW THIS HAPPENED ?
THIS HAS BEEN THE MISTAKE OF
JEWISH PEOPLE SINCE THE GOLDEN CALVE.
ALWAYS LOOKING FOR A MIDDLE FIGURE TO PRAY TO G-D,
EVERYBODY CAN PRAY WHERE EVER HE IS TO G-D.
WE DON'T NEED A WAILING WALL
A SYNAGOGUE, A GRAVE OF A HOLY MAN, ETC,ETC,
AS IT IS WRITTEN:
" HASHEM IS CLOSE TO ALL WHO CALL UPON HIM,
TO ALL WHO CALL UPON HIM SINCERELY "

THE MAIN MISTAKE  IS BY THESE RABBIS ,WHO PROMISE  PEOPLE THINGS THEY CAN NOT KEEP.
AND STUPID PEOPLE ,WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE POSITION OF A RABBI, OR TZADIK,
THE RABBI PRAYS TO G=D FOR YOU BUT G=D MIGHT SAY NO.
AND WHEN PEOPLE GIVE MONEY,
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS IN THE END.
WE HAVE TO TEACH PEOPLE ,THAT NOT ALWAYS THE BLESSING OF A HOLY PERSON WORKS.

ABA DUNNER Z.L.

IN THE JEWISH TRIBUNE 21 JULY 2011.
JOE LOBENSTIEN  WRITES IN HIS" HERE AND THERE" COLUMN:
" ABA WAS A BORN ASKAN "
( I REMEMBER IT WELL)
"AFTER HE TERMINATED HIS EMPLOYMENT WITH THE BRITISH AGUDA"
WHEN HE WAS EDITOR  OF THE JEWISH TRIBUNE AND DIRECTOR  OF BRITISH AGUDA,
YOU JOE AND A FEW OF YOUR OTHER CRONIES
WERE SCARED HE WAS GETTING TOO GOOD AT HIS JOB AS HE WAS BUILDING UP THE AGUDA.

YOU WERE SCARED THAT THIS YUNGERMAN WOULD OVER TAKE YOU, SO YOU GOT RID OF HIM AND PUSHED HIM OUT.
AND THE AGUDA HAS GONE DOWN HILL.
TO THAT EXTENT THAT THE TRIBUNE IS BANKRUPT.
IF ITA SIMONS ( CYMERMAN ) WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN AGUDAS HOUSING OUT OF THE AGUDAS CONTROL,
SHE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL.
S.O.F .T. ONLY BECAME A SUCCESS  
WHEN OTHER CHARITY ORGANISATIONS OPENED UP.

NEPOTISM AND FRIENDS HAVE RUINED THE ORGANISATION.
ABA LIVED AND WANTED TO HELP JEWISH PEOPLE,THAT WAS HIS LIFE'S AIM.
THIS IS NOT THE CASE WITH JOE, FOUR YEARS MAYOR AND COUNTLESS YEARS COUNCILOR HE NEVER HELPED A PERSON PRIVATELY.
ALL THAT MATTERED WAS HIM ,HIM AND HIM AGAIN.

AS JOE WRITES, ABA WAS A BRILLIANT COMMUNICATOR.
HE ENJOYED PARTICIPATING IN A JEWISH RADIO PROGRAMME, UNTIL HIS BROTHER DAYAN AHRON DOVID WAS FRIGHTENED THAT IT WOULD STOP HIM TAKING OVER HIS FATHERS PLACE AS RAVED OF THE U.O.H.C. WHEN THE WELL KNOWN TZADIK
RABBI JOSEPH ZVI DUNNER  Z.L. PASSED ON.
SO HE DROPPED THE RADIO, AFTER PRESSURE FROM HIS FAMILY.

IN THE END THE FAMILY OF THE OLD RABBI PADWA Z.L.
WANTED TO KEEP THE U.O.H.C. IN THEIR FAMILY.
THEY  DISSOLVED THE POSITION OF RAVED SO DAYAN AHRON DOVID
DID NOT HAVE WHAT TO TAKE OVER.
THE WHOLE TOWN STINKS OF POWER THE RABONIM AND ASKONIM.
THE LAST WORD ,ABA'S LIFE WAS TO HELP PEOPLE AND MAKE THEM LAUGH .


WITH TEARS IN MY EYES I KNEW  HIM OVER SIXTY YEARS.