re: R’ Sternbuch Against the Shtei Halechem
A reader wrote, responding to this post:
You wrote:
הרב משה שטרנבוך בילדותו עוד קבל עול מלכות שמים ועול מצות מצות שתי הלחם בשבועות, ואף ניסה לגבור על מניעות מעשיות.
But his maskana already there and then is like now? (Requires קדושת מזבח)
Response:
Truth is, the previous article wasn’t clear enough. Let’s fix that now.
Bottom line: Rabbi Sternbuch, as we showed in the past, opposes the pillar of Avodah itself!!!
Again, follow the link.
Shtei Halechem is just one manifestation; this was meant to be a rhymey jab, a poetic pierce.
The rabbi doesn’t mention the Mizbeach or any other technical obstacle, nor reference his prior “maskana” (the book “Moadim Uzmanim” was explicitly not written Lemaaseh [even more so than Teshuvos Vehanhagos]!), and he certainly never lifted a finger himself to figure out how to build a Mizbeach.
So, truth is, it wouldn’t surprise me if he himself said “SHNEI”. Wouldn’t surprise me if he even forgot that there are kulos here that other korbanos lack. Who says he even recalls what he wrote there? Even if he does, what makes you think he even knows there was, in fact, no Mizbeach? Or any other factual details whatsoever? Nothing whatever to suggest he relearned the topic since his youth (Beis Yosef O.C. 3: ואף על פי שהעולם נוהגים כדברי התוספות, נראה לי שהוא מפני שאינם מעיינים בדברי הרמב”ם בהלכות בית הבחירה, אלא חד או תרי בדרא).
If this is all simply him going by his old “maskana”, then why does he drag in all those who ascend the Mount (his opposition not entirely clear)? Most bizarrely, why drag the “Kedushas Tzion” organization into this?! Clearly, his grasp of the facts regarding KZ and those who ascend Har Habayis comes from our enemies, and he never bothered to find out anything from the source before issuing his dumb denunciations.