Chabad-Lubavitch hosts Ramadan Iftar Seudah

 How low has Chabad-Lubavitch fallen? How low will they stoop for some PR and politicking?

I was quite surprised to see that no less than an official spokesman for them, who tweets with the handle @Chabad Lubavitch, recently hosted a Ramadan Iftar meal in Crown Heights. Now I understand wanting good relations with other groups, that is admirable, however, it is our way to maintain a separation in the religious sphere. 

Not only that, he was joined by Belzer and Agudath Israel representatives at the event as well.

This shows the hefkeirus in Chabad-Lubavitch nowadays. No living Rebbe, איש הישר בעיניו יעשה. Where is Yudel Krinsky, Shemtov, etc.? A lone voice protested online, but otherwise there seemed to be just silence along with support from a major Chabad-Lubavitch outlet.

Does Agudath Israel not exercise oversight over its representative? Belz? It's true that their participation raises serious questions as well, however, it seems that they just joined, while Chabad-Lubavitch was the driving force behind it.

Get together with others, work together for good things, sure. But there are still certain boundaries set by our faith and rabbis, that stay in place.

Does anyone think that the late Lubavitcher Rebbe would endorse such a thing?

What will Chabad do next? Host an Easter egg roll on the lawn of 770?

May we be zoche to תשובה שלמה and שלום על ישראל בקרוב.

The Contempt & Condescension of Chabad-Lubavitch for Non-Chabad Yidden - Bombshell Revelation from Teachings of their Rebbes

 The massive Chabad-Lubavitch propaganda apparatus endeavors to spread among the population various deceptions, such as 1) Chabad-Lubavitch is normative Torah Judaism, 2) Chabad-Lubavitch is normative Chasidism, 3) Chabad-Lubavitch is the vanguard, the leaders of Judaism/Chasidism, 4) Their leader is the leader of the Jewish people (נשיא הדור), 5) They respect, love, get along with every Jew, etc., etc. The truth however, is at variance with these claims. 

Let us just examine now one of the multiple, or should I say manifold, Chabad deceptions.

Let us see how Chabad-Lubavitch views Jews that do not belong to their sect, in the words of no less than the sixth and seventh leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch faith, their late Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and his predecessor and father-in-law, the late Rebbe Joseph Isaac (Yosef Yitzchok) Schneerson.

The context of this revelation is a book of guidance for matchmaking and marriage based on Chabad-Lubavitch teachings, in which the following appears under a heading inquiring about there being Possibly Someone Better Non-Anash (meaning non Lubavitch)?

Question: What about a Non-Lubavitch shidduch/match? 

Answer of Rebbe Mendel Schneerson, seventh Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe - 

There is a well known saying of my father in law, the previous Rebbe, that our ziburyos (worst) is better than their idiyos (best).

The Hebrew - Yiddish version can be seen here, letter 673.

So there you have it. The contempt of Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneerson for non-Chabad, echoed by his son-in-law Rebbe Menachem Mendel.

Despite all the propaganda, whether old or new (like a recent hagiography by Chabad-Lubavitch propagandist Dovid Eliezrie on Rebbe Yosef Yitzchok), beyond the noise, the PR made for naive and unknowing outsiders, the words written for insiders reveal the true face of the beliefs of the sect.

Know the truth and don't be duped by the Chabad-Lubavitch fraudsters.

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Real Yidden Counter TYH Mishugas With Flair - Great New Torah Swag & Animated Music Video

Boruch Hashem, I have seen more and more people speaking out and sounding off lately against the distortions and perversions of Torah Yiddishkeit emanating from the neo-Chasidic camp, with a particular focus on the TYH Nation outfit of suburban NYC that we posted on here some time ago. Hey, I know it can take time for some people to recognize the danger of some of these things that we may discern at an earlier stage בס"ד with our penimiyus-penetrating hard core Litvak radar. There is a tendency for people to try to ignore them, wish them away, bend over backward to give them the benefit of the doubt, to judge them favorably. But after a while, the truth emerges, and more people understand.

Here are some impressive, more recent, laudable initiatives by talented people to provide classical Torah based alternatives to TYH swag and swagger that have just come to my attention.

They may be cute and clever, but there is deepness and authenticity as well.

1) JUST LEARN TORAH SWAG (full version at Instagram - click both ways, back and forth, for full selection).

JLT website (when I went there previously I saw a wide line of great messages, but now it seems to be only showing one. If that is what you are seeing, check them out at Instagram for fuller version, over ten different ones, as above).

2) Emeseh Yid presents REAL YIDDEN (great video, song with animation).

Absorb and enjoy!

H/t to the friend who shared relevant link with multiple others the other day, where more, along with some discussion, can be seen.

Note: There is room for improvement and tweaking of messages at the recommended sites linked to, I would express some things differently, but nevertheless, overall, they are great additions.

Scathing Exposé on "Frum" Affinity Fraud

 The 5TJT paper out of the NYC area has just published a very detailed hard-hitting exposé-update related to the extremely serious problem of "frum" affinity fraud, in which Chabad-Lubavitch features in multiple roles:

1) The fraudster featured prayed at a prominent Lubavitch congregation, Chabad of the Five Towns, headed by a son in-law of the late Chabad-Lubavitch leader Moshe Kotlarsky. 2) Chabadskers were victims of it (among others). 3) 5TJT publisher Larry (ארי' לייב) Gordon, a Modern semi-Lubavitcher, has, to his great credit, exposed and pursued this (and related) cases, keeping pressure on, using his powerful platform to call for justice.

We have written here in the past about the great danger of the faux-Jewish notion, promoted by some (particularly among the neo-Chasidic as well as some of the old Hasidic, and some of the plain naive), that "every Yid's a big tzadik", and how such fantasies can lead to great danger, by making people more vulnerable to various scam artists and fraudsters.

Kudos to Larry Gordon for his great work in this area, on this issue. הלואי more people would follow him in this regard. 

ארי' שאג, מי לא יירא - We encourage Larry (Leibel) Gordon to continue acting like a lion here, in pursuit of justice and restitution for the many victims. He is not buying the "new religion" of "every Yid's a big tzadik". He's been around the block enough times to know that it is also a scam.

חזק חזק ונתחזק

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.

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