Video below The Q&A panel at the Agudah convention Asking for a friend featured questions on timely issues addressed by Rabbi Yisroel Reisman & Rabbi Uri Deutsch moderated by R' Sruly Besser see time line of topics below
To listen via audio 718-298-2077 ext. 9336245# - 12:00 What's the response to antisemitism
- 22:00 Rise in level of Gashmiyus have the rabbi)onim given up the battle? What are the practicle steps to balance
- 29:20 Rav Deutsch responds
- 35:00 why didn't Takanos on simchas work after covid?
- 36:40 Does Lakewood gashmiyus & Balei Tzedaka fo hand in hand?
- 41:25 a year since Ocrober 7th why don't we feel it anymore what can be done about it
- 48:00 sending pictures of a girl with a shidduch resume, should u do so because of the crisis.
- 59:48 How to deal with a husband who watches inappropriate content
Rav Reisman is an exceptional talmid chochom with such moral clarity! Klal Yisroel is blessed to have him.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why R Lopiansky was snubbed this year
ReplyDeleteNot snubbed, you always gotta change things up to keep it interesting
DeleteThere's a silent majority in Lakewood thousands of bnei Torah and thousands of families that are living the simple life not part of the gashmiyus society that has popped up in Lakewood
ReplyDeleteThe moderator or the rav should have pointed that out.
It's interesting how the panelists approach the subjects. Rabbi Reisman is very practical with experience in his own family mispalelim and talmidim. He learned in Torah vodath under Rav Pam whose hadracha he follows, all these issues brought up he's been there done that.
ReplyDeleteRav Uri Deutsch finds sources in chazal and goes back in history to how and when these issues were discussed and dealt with applying it to today's times.
Interesting points of view
This was like the Trump presidential debate on ABC with the moderator ganging up
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May the רבנים שליט"א be asked and may we heed their directives. Both spoke extraordinarily clear and no commentary was warranted.
Did not understand what Rav Uri shlita was explaining about the struggle with gashmiyus since the churban, what about over the top gashmiyus that the Torah talks about the Ramban on קדושים תהיו
ReplyDeleteThe moderator should know that in America the opposite of soft ball is hard ball not fast ball
ReplyDeleteTwo out of three at that table are not American. How should they know?
DeleteThe idea that Lakewood is unique in its tzedaka is not backed up by the facts.
ReplyDeleteAll Charedi towns have the same, similar, or even better organizations. When a tragedy happens in Crown Heights, they also get together to make a Keren. Bikur Cholim in NY is way ahead of that of Lakewood. Small towns have much better methods of 'small chassadim', such as neighbors helping each other, babysitting, preparing simchos, and more.
We need to stop patting ourselves on the back so much.
ask any gabbai tzedakah and he will tell you that the amount coming from lakewood for national and international organizations is higher than anywhere else and the amount kerens make in lakewood is much higher than anywhere else.
DeleteIn New Square, they will tell you that they give more per capita. In Williamsburg, they will tell you - surprise surprise - that they give more per capita.
DeleteAnd the Gabbaei Tzedaka tell each town what they want to hear.
Don't get high on your own supply.
Rabbi Reisman is talking about an entire tzibbur, based on the caprices of the minority.
ReplyDeleteThere are many weddings every night in Lakewood, how many are 'over the top'? A tiny percentage of people go to Mexico for Yeshiva week. The Pesach programs are mostly not Lakewood people, and the vast majority of Lakewood people have nothing to do with them.
Yay they spoke publicly about addiction to shmutz.. what's next is there anything still swept under the rug or are we all caught up with modern orthodoxy
ReplyDeleteThey were ASKED about it. If Rabbonim won't answer questions they are asked, or make people feel uncomfortable for asking, people are going to find "answers" in venues a lot worse than the MO world.
DeleteAgudah is at fault for the conversation about shmutz abd taboo subjects after they supported liberal politicians who brought hashchasa to the public
ReplyDeleteThe fact the LGBT and gender operation was discussed at the agudah mental health convention is a result of electing left democrats who brought dor hamabul back
The conversation about schmutz is a product of the oiber-chachamim who constantly discuss schmutz, with a heter that they are 'fighting' it.
DeleteStop making schmutz the central topic of every election, stop talking about LGBT as though they are our issue.
The Agudah askanim are right to make this into a non-issue in elections.
Wrong & False.
DeleteThose who fight it are usually those are very careful.
It's the other crowd who causes the decline.For example:A website never had videos of women lectures, until TU told them to post from their Convention
& Just the opposite L#@#* is as much our issue as any out there.The country is getting destroyed for that,& we are the difference.Every goy who turns anti-Semite gets that in their bones
Particularly since it's our brethren who cause these stuff step by step
The aino yehudim over the decades who we associate with have been more confounded by our lack of concern from the changes in immorality than any of the scandals, arrests,bad news shandas, that often come out of our communities that we seem so concerned about!
Our community which wants to protect ourselves from immorality ( from which you benefit) will be hurt by your public discouragement.
That should be fairly obvious unless you're attempting like Goebbels: " If you tell a big enough lie and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
lets undestand that shmutz addiction can happen to ladies as well
ReplyDeleteThe # have been badly going up by girls
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