A prominent leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch faith, especially in Florida, Reb Sholom Lipskar, passed away the other day. As usual, his sect seized the opportunity for their PR and propaganda. But this time, it was so blatantly false, so outrageous and far from the truth, that it would not pass unnoticed, swallowed whole by the gullible masses. Someone called them out on it in a big way. This episode is worth noting for what it teaches us about their reliability and trustworthiness overall.
At a NY area website a blistering comment was posted taking issue with the Chabad propaganda that claimed that before Lipskar came to Miami Beach in 1969, the area lacked even very elementary basic Jewish infrastructure.
The commenter pointed out that actually Miami Beach had a (Torah Umesorah affiliated) day school from the 1940's, Orthodox Congregation Beth Israel from the 1950's (Rabbi Berel Wein שליט"א later served there for a number of years), mikveh, and more (there was also Rabbi Stern from the mid-1950's). That makes the point very well that the Lubavitch obituary is a disgusting lie and libel.
But actually it is even worse than that. Because the Chabad-Lubavitch propaganda machine in its piece after the passing of Reb Lipskar actually contradicted its own words less than three years earlier. Then, when another prominent leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch faith in S. Florida, Reb Pinchas Weberman, passed away, they were peddling a different story In that piece they said that Weberman went down to Miami Beach in 1960, founded a synagogue, at around the same time another Lubavitch leader (Reb Korf) went there to start Lubavitch of Florida.
So now they say that in 1969 there was no Jewish infrastructure in that area before Lipskar's arrival? What a joke, what a disgrace.
ב"ה however, this has served an important purpose, though. Bringing to light, in great relief, how unreliable, biased, brazen, and corrupt Chabad-Lubavitch too often is. And it also is connected to a whole attitude among way too many of them, their fantasies viewing themselves as the pioneers of Yiddishkeit, even when the facts are not in accordance with such a claim and belief. But let us not be fooled.
From here we have a giant בנין אב, a lesson to apply overall, to be very wary of what they say. Caveat emptor.
שקר אין לו רגלים...וחותמו של הקב"ה אמת
In the zechus of Emes and תורת אמת may we be zoche to כל טוב.
I was taken aback to read that Rav Weberman was so close with Chabad-Lubavitch considering he came from the Malachim. I think his father was one of young men who were kicked out of Torah V'Daas by "Mr." Mendlowitz (rav) because of their association with the Malach.
ReplyDeleteFrom 2003-2009 I attended a Young Israel whose Rabbi was Chabad. One year he gave a Chabad propaganda speech. Before Chabad there were no Yeshivas, no Mikvehs. America was a spiritual wasteland. But one man changed everything. Lubavitchers have no interest in truth. (edited)
ReplyDeleteHere's something interesting. A thread on VIN honors Lee Zeldin for putting up a Mezuzah on his door. He's described as a proud Jew. Of course Levi Shemtov was behind this. One of the posters noted that Zeldin is married to a Mormon and they raise their two daughters in the Mormon faith. This is Chabad's understanding of Kiruv.
ReplyDeleteZeldin is a descendant of a Lubavitcher Hasid actually. Oh, the greatness of Chabad, that the grandson/great grandson of a Lubavitcher is married to a Mormon. The Lubavitcher Levi in DC follows the typical playbook of the Chabad missionaries (usually followed by other missionaries too), to focus on the lost sheep of Israel, the Jewishly ignorant. Among them they find some customers for their corrupted version of Yiddishkeit with their false messiah. Those well educated in Torah know that Lubavitch is a distortion of Judaism, and don't buy it.
DeleteAs someone who prides himself in trying to be truthful I enjoy this site. On the other hand, sites like VIN are infiltrated by liars. One consistent theme is how Chabad bends over backward to honor "Jews" like Zeldin, Emhoff, Bloomberg, Savage, the list goes on. Yossi Faro has made it his life's work to put Tefilin on the rich and famous. So what's the lie? What Chabad is doing is not Kiruv. Kiruv is the sincere desire to bring disenfranchised Jews closer to Hashem. That's not accomplished by putting Tefilin on them. I'll share a story. There's a minyan in my neighborhood on Friday nights. It's composed of the Chabad Rabbi, his two Bar Mitzvahed sons, yours truly and the rest are Mechallels who come with their cell phones to follow the Mets and Yankee games. They won't even stand up for Kedusha. I go there for Shalom Bayis but usually when they get a tenth person I go to an actual shul. About a year ago, on one Friday, they only had 9 men so the Rabbi went to look for a tzenter. I got to listen to the Mechallels. One said to his friend, "I used to look forward to Fridays. I like going to the boardwalk, but now those Lubavichers come and drive me crazy with their Tefilin." The other one responded, "I just ignore them. I've never put Tefilin on in my life and I never will." Then the first guy said, "I can't do that. I do them a favor and put it on." The fact is that most American Jews are lost. Chabad won't accept that because their late leader rejected the Gemara in Cheilek which said that most Jews will go lost when Moshiach comes. He claimed that he'll save everyone and his puppets brainlessly spout his nonsense. The way to do Kiruv is to behave as a Jew is supposed to behave.
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