Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Secular Culture Is a Threat to Jewish Survival - Only the Torah Can Save Us
Rav Aharon Feldman shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Ner Yisroel, spoke at an assifa organized for English speakers in Beit Shemesh. The Rosh Yeshiva describes how the crux of the issue is a fight over the definition of what it means to be a Jew is and that even if everything could be made kosher there is no way for an ehrliche Yid to put himself in an environment which directly contradicts the Torah's definition of a Jew. He also recounted the tragic story of a talmid who decided to join the 'Chashmonim' brigade and was mechallel Shabbos for the first time in his life on the first Shabbos in the army under the threat of arrest by his commander.
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Major accident closed down route 9 this morning. Traffic backed up endlessly. Local police authorities could not bother to set up traffic control for people to avoid the backlog through side streets..
ReplyDeleteNu, back then they also complained that the original Chashmonaim weren't frum or enriche because they were mechallel shabbos by fighting the Greeks then. Matisyahu and Shammai Hazaken disagreed. Fascinating how history rhymes.
ReplyDeleteThe chasmonaim weren't taking orders from behind scenes kalya liberals.They were fighting the kalyas
DeleteDisingenuous & to the contrary.The chasmonaim held Chazal weren't kanno'ish enough.They were prepared to make a deal for autonomy with the Syrian-Greeks
DeleteThe story has been debunked as factually impossible, and the claim that there is no competent rav to pasken is also unfounded because Rav Asher Weiss, a gaon adir and respected posek in daled chelkei Shulchan Aruch, is the posek for IDF.
ReplyDeleteLook at minute 15:10 someone yells out Rav Asher Weiss name and Rav Feldman dosent react and ignores him
DeleteWhat does that show? That he doesn't like him. And therefore?
DeleteDoesn't consider him a heavyweight
DeleteThe Zionists shmad has no end, we must fight the Zionists like we fought the Hellenists, Yevsekitiya, Stalin and 1940-1945 they all have the same goals.
ReplyDeleteYou mean the Zionists who supported Torah and Yeshivos for 45 years by giving them billions of Shekel a year? And who protect klal Yisrael from harm? How sick can you get? Chas Veshalom to compare sometimes misguided Jews Yevsekstsya and Stalin vile murderers.
DeleteI would want to hear from the person who told Rabbi Feldman that he was forced to carry his phone his first Shabbos in Chasmanion. I’m not saying it’s not true but I suspect there is more to the story. The only person I know who is actually in the Chasmanion strongly denied such a possibility in the absence of a potential pikuach nefesh reason for him needing the phone. Hatzala also carries phone on Shabbos. If the person was already an active combat soldier stationed in Gaza or elsewhere , To repeat what Rav Azreil Aurbach wrote in the Yated to a soldier in Gaza who asked if he should avoid something on Shabbos “My father (RSZ’A) held that a combat soldier is in a situation of pikuach nefesh every second. When it comes to his or others people's safety, he should not be making chesbonos of maybe I really don’t need to…”
ReplyDeleteOnce in the situation,fair enough.
DeleteBTAIM Would RSZA recommend you place yourself in the situation? Would he have recommended a grandchild to enter the situation?
Not so simple that RSZA would not recommend putting yourself in that situation .According to his biography at least a Mossad agent who had become a BT asked him if he should accept an espionage assignment that to hide his identity would not allow any Shemiras Mitzvahs at all. I don't remember his answer anymore but it certainly wasn't a flat out no.
DeleteRav Shlomo Zalman would NEVER send his grandchild to a protest encouraged by his son R Ezriel so he could call Jewish police Nazis!
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Delete3 chamuros are out of the question.
Though most znus with goyim won't rate with level; same for the situation with most cases of murder
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His children claim they received his real opinions - in the kitchen
In Halacha, family members claiming after someone's death to have heard his "real" opinion when they contradict what he was known to have said or wrote during his lifetime are never believed.
DeleteOne encounter with RSZ would be enough to know what he would think of calling Jews Nazis.
Delete5:27,6:42
DeleteHe told people outright after it's founding that he supported Degel H,
but from a distance
It is clear from the Poskim that Jews served in secular armies; there are even examples of ancient Jews serving in the Roman army. I am not aware of a single Posek who said that doing so is yahareig v'ahl yaavor.
ReplyDeleteTo the contrary, the Melamed Lehoil said that it is permissible to serve in the German army even though one would be required to violate shabbos.
Regardless, carrying a cellphone isn't chillul shabbos, as it is merely a kli shemelachto liissur which one is allowed to carry (within a reshus hayachid).
Nobody then dared declare it a mitzvah
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DeleteTo the contrary the Melamed Lihoil said that failing to enlist in the German army is a) a chilul hashem and b) shirking the obligation to save the lives of German Jews.
As such, he said that these mitzvahs - avoiding chilul hashem and protecting the lives of fellow Jews - would push away the requirement to observe shabbos.
Jews served in Greek army, USSR communist army (include the Steipler), US Army (from revolutionary war till today (though the West Point chaplain told me West Point is not a place for a Shomer Shabbat Jew) ).
DeleteI think all of us know that יהרג ואל יעבור is mere rhetoric, nobody thinks it is a serious pesak.
Delete3:36,
Deletehot air
Are you just as gung-ho ready to serve in the german army? like my ancestors,including the great great uncle who was killed
R Feldman made a big issue out of Hatikvah. While they play it at certain events, no soldier is forced to sing it. When discussing the Washington rally, he basically said that it was Pikuach Nefesh but we couldn't go because Hatikvah will be sung. Gedolei Yisroel, aside from Satmar, never went that far. Virtually every American Ben Torah was present at some time when it was sung.
ReplyDeleteRA Feldman is taking these unpopular stances because he came to a serious conclusion that in confused crisis that we are in, a harder stance is needed & demanded
DeleteIirc he in an earlier period used to lean centrist moderate
Cohen 1:19 If anything he would be accomplishing the oppisite. When someone take very hard line, black and white positions it becomes a lot easier to poke holes in what they are saying and then discredit them completely than when they take more moderate and grayer positions.
DeleteWrong.
DeleteHe is inherently a firm moderate.
Yet he is willing to put himself out
Look at minute 15:10 someone yells out Rav Asher Weiss name and Rav Feldman dosent react and ignores him
ReplyDeletenone of these pro-zionist army posters ever had a hava amina to enlist in any army or to allow their children to do so.
ReplyDeleteEven if true that no one here would enlist themselves(how do you know that?) it is completely irrelevant to a conversation about doing so.
DeleteAbsolutely relevant.All hot air until it comes too close for your comfort
DeleteNone of the יהרג ואל יעבור screamers ever had a hava amina to die instead of enlisting, or to allow their children to do so.
DeleteThat's only because they don't have the courage and don't really follow "Daas Torah" when its really hard. But eventually, chas v'sholom, a bachur will act on it and the onus will be on this who made such proclamations.
DeleteFor girls, very much so.For boys,it's bit more complicated.Those feminizers on top keep bringing the discrepancy closer
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