העורך Editor

Dear Rabbi Fried shlita,

A warm welcome to you and the Rebbetzin upon your fresh return to Eretz Hakodesh for a new chapter of continuing to spread Torah, now in its natural habitat.

Aliyah is harder than it looks, and far more meaningful than it seems. Thank you for uprooting from the Diaspora to pave the way for the Jewish national future and for presenting an example to others. May many more follow shortly!

Wishing you luck with the envisioned Kollel and fundraising.

(English-speaking kollels play a vital role in helping their students integrate successfully in Eretz Yisrael, while enriching the neighborhood character in irreducible ways.)

ילכו מחיל אל חיל יראה אל אלהים בציון,

Your fellow Jews/Judeans

An ahistorical thought upon the latest attempts to press gang Charedim into the IDF abomination. Here’s [then-Colonel] George Washington in a letter dated August 4, 1756:

“I could by no means bring the Quakers to any terms. They chose rather to be whipped to death than bear arms.”

“Quaker” is the 18th-century biblical word for “Charedi”, those who fear God’s word, unless I am exceedingly in error.

Some things never change.

Observant Jews aren’t literally lashed with cowhides — yet. But BRING IT ON! The whip will break before we do.

The Israeli regime often seeks to ape the “City on a Hill”. Well, how about you copy the “American Moses” who, at length, gave Charedim (er, Quakers) a blessed reprieve?!

שיעור יפה של הג”ר אליהו ובר שליט”א…

הנה מכתבו הנלוז:

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אגב, אולי גם הוא מפעיל כותבי צללים שוטים כמו אחיו הרשע, שהרי כותב שכה”ח יו”ד הוא “אאמו”ר“.

נ”ב, העירני חכ”א שחלק זה מספר כה”ח אכן נכתב ע”י הרב עובדיה יוסף זצ”ל. וז”ל כה”ח יו”ד סי’ קי”ז סוף סקי”ב:

Readers tell me the Manifesto disagrees with the Ritva (oho!), so the Ritva must be right and the Manifesto wrong…

Here’s the relevant quote (right before the ending, pages 7-8):

Perhaps this is also Rava’s intention, Makos 17b:

… אמר רבא דילידא אימיה כרבי שמעון תיליד ואי לא לא תיליד…

… Said Rava: When one’s mother is giving birth, he should pray the child be like Rabbi Shimon [bar Yochai], and if the child is not going to be like Rabbi Shimon, she should not give birth at all…

Of course, Hashem will then do as He deems fit in His infinite power and unfathomable wisdom with each and every soul (which would dissolve the Ritva’s obvious question on the universal girsa: ולא גרסינן ואי לא לא תלד כי הרבה יש למטה מר”ש שטוב להם להוליד).

End quote.

Nu, give me a break!

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