Rav Miller's Torah Rx: Good Sleep & Fresh Air

Once again, in last week's Toras Avigdor booklet, Rav Avigdor Miller זצ"ל shared fundamental, immensely valuable guidance for healthy and successful living, physically, and spiritually. In case you missed it, here is a synopsis:

Feeling down? Open a window, go outside. Fresh air is medicine that will change your attitude and make you happy (p. 9).

Feeling nervous? Make sure you get enough sleep. That's the first medicine for you (back cover).

How much time, grief, money, pain, etc., could be spared and avoided, and how much more successful people could be, if they would only follow such sage advice, time-tested wisdom. 

Rav Miller lived into his nineties, with minimal medical intervention. He must have known something about proper, healthy living.

Live the Rav Miller high life way, you won't regret it.

ישמע חכם ויוסף לקח

Related prior post 

Losers Visit Ohel of Chabad-Lubavitch, Winner Stays Away From Tomb - NYC Election Report

 One of the things that the Chabad-Lubavitch faith does is promote visiting the grave of their late leader, in Queens, New York City. They expend great effort trying to get both Jews and non-Jews to visit it, promoting it as an act that will bring success. They endeavor and toil to bring prominent personalities, including politicians, to it, as part of the Chabad-Lubavitch propaganda campaign, promoting the crypt of their late leader as the Jewish place to visit (as part of their longstanding effort to promote themselves as the leaders of the Jewish people, and their late Rebbe as the leader of the Jews), and the site to kowtow to Jewish voters. Should some politician visit it and later have some political success, such as being elected, or otherwise, Chabadskers refer to it in way of explanation. Of course, they don't similarly publicize when such visitors lose.

With that in mind, let us look at what happened recently in NYC, where a radical anti-Israel candidate just won election to the mayoralty. 

Andrew Cuomo, the candidate backed by many Orthodox Jews and Hasidim, visited the crypt of the Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe before the election. So did his Republican opponent Curtis Sliwa. As did the current Mayor, Eric Adams, who has visited there multiple times. What was the result? They all went down to defeat, in a big way.

On the other hand, the election winner, Zohran Mamdani, did not visit the Chabad-Lubavitch tomb, yet emerged with a stunning, historic victory.

Takeaway: Losers visit the Chabad-Lubavitch crypt. Don't be fooled by the Chabadsker fraud campaign.

May G-d lead us in the path of truth and save us from scam artists, even those who pose as religious and holy.

Remembering our great leader Rav Elazar Menachem Man Schach זצ"ל on his 24th Yahrzeit

 Today, ט"ז חשון, the sixteenth of Cheshvan, is the yahrzeit of one of the great leaders of Klal Yisrael in recent times, רבינו הגדול רב אלעזר מנחם מן שך זצללה"ה.

He was a great מרביץ תורה, a great spiritual leader of the Jewish people. 

In addition to so many decades in his long life (reportedly over a century) of spreading Torah and Yiddishkeit, in his old age, when he was weak and infirm, he stepped up to lead a very important battle against a dangerous, deceptive, power-hungry, PR-crazed messianic sect from Brooklyn, NY, USA, and their false Messiah, משיח שקר. He was (and still is) viciously hated and attacked by them for that, but as a great leader, Rav Schach did what needed to be done, במסירות נפש, with great dedication and self-sacrifice.

Here are some selected pieces to remember this great man.

Rabbi Pini Dunner's fond portrayal. (article)

Good general visual overview (video)

General Israeli perspective. (video)

Rav Schach speaking in Yiddish to a yeshiva (video)

A famous public address in the streets of Bnei Brak (video)

Remembered by a former Israeli chief Rabbi (video)

May we follow in the great ways of Rav Schach, and thereby merit genuine redemption speedily in our days, and the downfall of all frauds and imposters.

א גוטען שבת

Chabad-Lubavitch Tishrei Madness in the News

The seat of the Chabad-Lubavitch faith, Crown Heights, is a disaster area. People elsewhere, inundated by Lubavitch propaganda that tries to obscure this obscene and dismal reality, don't realize this often. So to show you what you have been missing, with the help of some of their less controlled media sources, we will enlighten you. As we just ended the month of Tishrei, we share some of the craziness that you may have missed.

Exhibit #1 - Is This the Tishrei the Rebbe Envisioned? (the comments are as important, if not more so, than the piece itself)

Exhibit #2 - Chabad-Lubavitch doesn't decorate their Sukkahs as others do, don't sleep in them, eat in them in the rain, due to the great holiness of the Sukkah they say. Yet they desecrate them by using them to promote their long passed last leader as Messiah. For example, in the giant mobile Sukkahs they sent out in NYC.

In the photos you will see the Lubavitch messianic mantra of יחי displayed on both the outside and inside of their jumbo Manhattan mobile sukkahs in Hebrew (Interestingly it doesn't seem to be there in English. Seems they recognize it would be a turn off to their prospective clients, but since the ignorant Jews that they target are often not Hebrew literate, they will not notice the offensive material if it's in that language).

Do they need to corrupt the Sukkah too with their delusional messianic lunacy/heresy? 

3) Corruption of שמחת בית השואבה - 

On Thursday night of Chol Hamoed at the Simchas Beis Hashoeivah in Crown Heights, the Tzivos Hashem (Chabad-Lubavitch children's organization) director calls up young children (note: these particular kids are from Toronto - not NYC - shows you that when they claim it is just some fanatics in Crown Heights it is a lie) to the stage where they yell out יחי...three times for others to echo in response.

How can any self-respecting normative Torah Jew support such a group?

In the zechus of separating ourselves from such people, and refraining from supporting them, may we merit a גוט געבענטשט יאהר.

א גוטען שבת און א גוטען חודש

Tehillim Recitation Stops Tomorrow - MDY

Renowned marbitz Torah R. Eli Stefansky שליט"א has announced that throughout the world people will stop saying Tehillim בציבור after davening tomorrow, with the official end of the Gaza war (hopefully).

While some might quibble with the statement (note: no one is saying to stop davening in general, and those so inclined can add Tehillim on their own), I say kudos to R. Stefansky for raising this important issue.

To keep piling more and more upon people, with no end, when there are already great problems with concentrating on just regular davening and learning, to increase (ח"ו) the terrible problem of מצות אנשים מלומדה, rote, mechanical davening, learning, עבודת ה', מצות, is a real travesty. We have a concept of יצא שכרו בהפסדו.

הלואי people will have proper כוונה with just the basics, the old, fundamental recitations, and learning. We need עבודה שבלב, service of the heart, what tefillah is supposed to be, not עבודה בשפה, more lip service ר"ל. 

Quality > Quantity.

איכות > כמות

As the Shulchan Aruch says טוב מעט בכוונה מהרבות בלי כוונה, and, as Rav Yitzchok Hutner, RY MYRCB added, טוב מעט שלא בכוונה מהרבות בלי כוונה.

כשם שמקבלים שכר על הדרישה כך מקבלים שכר על הפרישה

א גוטען מועד, א גוטען יום טוב, און א גוט יאהר

Chaos Envelops Main Chabad-Lubavitch 770 E.P. HQ Temple for Rosh Hashanah-New Year

While their traveling agents spread out and preach to the ignorant, targeting the lost sheep of Israel, posing as respectable, normative Jews, and spiritual leaders, meanwhile, their base, their headquarters in Brooklyn, NY, remains torn and shattered by controversy and violence. 

Even before Rosh Hashanah, on the last Shabbos of the year (someone, presumably a Lubavitcher posted about it here too), and then continuing to Rosh Hashanah itself, madness reared up there. Damage control was attempted, but fell short.

This is the legacy of the last leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch.

Don't be fooled by the smooth talking snake oil salesmen that they send out. If you want to know what Chabad is, look to their seat, where their late leader presided, and take note of the state of affairs there.

How great were our gedolim such as the Brisker Rav, Rav Schach, the Vilna Gaon, and so many others, זכר צדיקים לברכה לחיי העולם הבא, who foresaw and warned of the great danger of this group.

May we merit the true משיח speedily in our days, and the dismantlement, dispersion, dissipation, and repentance of all false pretenders and their minions.

יה"ר שתחדש עלינו שנה טובה ומתוקה, שנת שלום ושלוה והשקט ובטח

Tzom Gedaliah - Beware Dangerous "Chasidus"

Learn the very important lesson of צום גדליה.

Rav Avigdor Miller זצ"ל teaches it to you.

Don't be a חסיד שוטה, a "pious fool".

No, every Yid is not a big tzadik, even if some fools, loudmouths, and scoundrels, some with songs and fancy, glossy publications, try to convince you as much.

לא תונו איש את עמיתו - את לרבות את עצמו 

Do not fool yourself. Don't be a fool.

(above vertel may be from Kotzker Rebbe, don't recall for certain)

Knowledgeable and aware Chasidic leaders also warned against dangerous naivete and pseudo-piety.

שנה טובה לקוראים ושומעים