We have posted here in the past about a Neo-Chasidic group calling itself TYH nation that promotes the notion that "every Yid is a big tzadik", and how wrong it is, even if they have some cute songs and some flashy swag at times.
ב"ה the Torah community at large seems to have kept a distance from TYH lately (see the low stats on many of their recent non-musical videos, for example, especially the ones that are really OTD, like when they try to teach their confused theology, including Likutei Amarim-Tanya. It is sad when naive Modern Orthodox and non-Orthodox encounter Chabad-Lubavitch and fall for them head over heels).
Anyway, as I was reading last week's Toras Avigdor recently, I was happy to note not just one, but two pieces where Rav Miller zt"l strongly took issue with TYH's זיוף התורה with regard to this matter.
Korach 5784 – The Great Opponent – Toras AvigdorKorach 5784 – The Great Opponent – Toras Avigdor
The first is in the English booklet, p.15, paragraph three, where he spoke about the great importance of introspection, working on middos, on the improvement of character traits, without which a person can delude himself into believing that he is righteous when he is actually far from that.
"...there are evil Orthodox Jews" "...there are plenty of reshaim gemurim."
The second was on page twenty, the back cover, in the Q&A section.
"There's no such thing as saying "There's no reshaim". This liberal attitude that everything is excusable cannot be accepted by us. We have our principles and sometimes you have to call a thing by its name. And a person who is disloyal to the Torah certainly deserves a certain rebuke. And if he deserves the name of rasha - it doesn't mean you have to say it - but you could certainly categorize him in the category of rasha" (this piece was actually featured in the past, here, and there, as well).
So there you have it.
ב"ה we can still see the old-fashioned Torah truth at times, even if it is not politically correct.
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Well said. While Chabad excuses every Mechallel Yom Kippur, if a Frum Jew dares to challenge them they immediately sentence him to Gehinnom. Last night Zev Brenner had a great show. This Lubavicher wrote a book which featured essays about the Rebbe. One Rabbi had the Chutzpah to say that he wasn't impressed with the Rebbe when he met him in 1970. Chabad is now calling for the book to be burned. And the Chabad Rabbi of Anchorage Alaska is calling on people to burn that Rabbi alive. Amazing how much Chabad loves every Jew.
ReplyDeleteWhat is it within the Modem Orthodox community that they've become so attracted to Chabad ?? RIETS was a purely Litvishe yeshiva from the get-go and the Roshei Yeshiva they hired were always staunch Litvaks.
ReplyDeleteThis has been nagging at me for some time. At first I thought that there was infiltration in recent years. But recently I've become suspicious of one particular (very distinguished) dean who has since passed away who it seems had Chassidic leanings. I also became disillusioned with one present Rosh Yeshiva who is a distinguished talmid chochom and about whom I recently was shocked to learn that he who convinced R'J.B. Soloveitchik to make his infamous visit to the rebbe in 1980 (that visit was a colossal error as it handed Chabad a tremendous PR victory ).
Great comment. I spoke about this with a Rov last Shabbos. He told me that MO Rabbis want to be viewed as tolerant and accepting and so they endorse Chabad who practice "anything goes" Judaism.
Deleteit seems as if among their tactics is this psychology trick; they spot someone 'of interest' (not for chassidic motives but p.r. tactics), to whom they try to leech on with 'we' messages very subtly (another variant is they versus we), only some notice because they have those kind of perceptions and find it obnoxious.
ReplyDeleteTo your point: I was recently in an ad-hoc bungalow colony minyan where they had a borrowed Sefer Torah for Shabbos. When they brought it out, it immediately looked suspicious to me - the inscription was ואהבת לרעך כמוך . When do you see that?? Well it turned out the organizer borrowed it from a local Chabad house.
ReplyDeleteThey are Conservative Jews plain and simple.
(naturally I and others refused aliyos and the organizer will not be repeating this offense)
Rabbi Bronstein is getting publicity for his book on the Torah and Hashkafah of the (Lubavitcher) Rebbe. He's MO, a product of YU. He was interviewed and asked about the Rebbe being Moshiach and he answered that the Rebbe never said he was Moshiach, and then Rabbi Bronstein said that my book is about the Rebbe's Torah so I don't really deal with Messianism. That's like saying I wrote a book about Mengele's experiments but I don't discuss his feelings about Jews. (edited)
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