amiricanyeshivish

To emphasize what was reiterated so many times….

I had a conversation with a Chabad bachur many years ago when I was a young impretionable bachur myself. We were sitting next to each other in an airport. I had a sefer with me (Derech Hashem from the Ramchal) and this chabd bachur who was a few years my senior started making deragetory comments against the sefer and litvishe Yeshiva bachurim in general.
I was very shaken up and tried not to get confrontational with him and told him that I just know what we are told by our Gedolim…
His retort which still repulses me 25 plus years later was…
“Do you mean the “Gedolim” of Siman Gimmel in Shulchan Aruch?”
I think everyone can understand the meaning and depravity of that comment told to a young innocent 17 year old Yeshiva boy trying to mind his own buisness.
But of course this was all in the name of saving a poor lost soul from eternal Snag damnation.
G-D bless his soul

Just to add to @someday

Rav Yerucham Z”L writes that a person today can be learning a sefer from someone many generations ago and little does he know that he is bigger than the writer of the sefer.

@coffee

Is that just a more sophisticated way of saying what I kvetched about that you feel left out?

Besides Dr Suess. He was a Gaon even lmaan deomar he was an antisemite.
“the Places You will Go” and “The Lorax” are mammesh mussar seforim

And so is fasting on !7 Tammuz and 9 BeAv not deoiraissa.

I say this because i find it important to diffrenciate. I know of a Chabad person who went OTD because she ate Cholov Stam and then threw in the towel (nebach) because anyways she did an aveirah….

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There are chasidim from other chasiduses that have told me that the young Bachurim are scared to do an aveira because Hashem might tell their Rebbe on them….

I agree with Jackk on a practical level but we know famously from Rav Miller Zatzal that he held voting Democrat is a Chilul Hashem. And we can’t make cheshbonos when it comes to chilul Hashem.

If you can’t get yourself to vote for the idiot on the Republican ballot I fully understand. But then rather don’t vote at all.

@Anon

Your interpetation is definetely the pshat that meets the eye “al pe derech hatevah” but Chassid Yaavetz was referring to the underlying cause what brought so many Yidden to convert r”l an more why did HKB”H bring the gzeira in the first place.
Similarly to the Neis Purim which is a natural chain of events but Chazal tell us it was because they partook in Achashveirosh’s seudah and/or they bowed to Nevuchanetzar’s tzelem.
After all we know “lev melachim ve’sarim beyad Hashem”

Can someone clarify for the ignorant.
Pro Shabbos observance won or the opposite?

mods didn’t like?

Commonseichal

Your insights get brighter and deeper in each post. Not to mention the sophistication. Does this come from having “common” seichal, because such depth is way beyond common. Really rare to find.

Rav Moshe Feinstein Zatzal is quoted in saying
“Frum is a gallach, a Yid darf zein Ehrlich”
Translated “A preist is Frum, a Yid has to be Ehrlich”

They are barely any left. Yemach Shmoi took care of that 85 years ago. All “Litvishe” today are either full blooded Hungarians, Romanians, Yekkes or a mix. Almost all minus the Yekkes and Oberlanders shtam from Chassidim. They just learned in “Litvish” yeshivos.
But real blue blooded “Litivise” barely exist. Same with the Poilisher. Almost the whole Ger Chassidus hails from Hungary etc.

Why do Chabanicks call people from the Yeshiva world “snags”?
Isn’t that meant as a derogetory name?
Wouldn’t that be quite opposite from their “Achdus” shittah?
I mean if they can respect all nonjewish people wouldn’t it be ok to give some decent respect to fellow Jews?
Or is it because they are great great grandchildren of the one who “sic” put the Baal Hatanya in jail?

Please explain. Really trying to understand.

I was in one chabad huge shul where they had a whole library of sichos and books all about the Rebbe Shlita and one set of Shulchan Aruch Harav hidden away. A bunch of Rambams in many languages and one old never used set of shas on bottom shelf covered in dust.
Its as if torah shel baal pe has been taken over by the Rebbe,s sichos and nothing else exists . BH they spared the Rambam from the dustbin.

Really interesting to hear all this backround info. I just joined couple of months ago. This is really facsinating. Thank you Neville.

Avira, Dofi, and Dorah

you guys defenitley have one thing in common…..

you take yourselves and your shittos (or prejudices) a bit too seriously. Chill out!!!

@AAQ

You are equating insecerity with Athiesm or apikorsos. What is the shaychus??
Not being “toichoy kebaroy” does not mean they were ch”v apikorsim. How dare you talk about our Tannaim in such a callous way!!

@Dorah
That very well may be true, but Rav Miller’s main issue wasn.t the people of the Democratic party rather their anti Torah veiws of liberalism and decadence of morality. Not the actions of some goyim but the ideology that we are voting for by voting Democrat he held was a huge chillul hashem to endorce.

The shooter is usually dead by end of shooting spree

If every yungerman is Rabbi than a Rav needs to be Harav Hagoen. The Rosh Yeshivas are now Hagoen Hagodol. And the highest in the hierchy are Sar Hatorah.

FlamingBT

About the math I plead the 5th.
About Trump I disagree.
About the critisizim of frum yidden I 100% agree.
It is dispicable and nausiating to see how some frum yidden are willing to publicly smear another frum yid in public. And of course it’s only leshaim shomayim.
And about my spelling see above regarding math.