Rabbi Avraham Dov Ber Kahana Shapiro of Kovna, author of “Devar Avraham”, once explained the decreasing order in Avraham’s prayer for Sedom (fifty good people, 45, 40, thirty, etc.), saying Sedom was just like Kovna, i.e., in a precipitous decline.
So, as time passed, Avraham lowered his estimate of righteous people…
(By the way, Rabbi Shapiro was also part of the “Netzach Yisrael” secret society in Volozhin.)
I have seen many cases where the child understood the book far better than his Divinely-ordained parents…
Children read slower and more thoroughly, and often multiple times, and intuit the genre and culture.
(Not to suggest an alternative, but to point out the reality.)
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He signed a plea deal for the “Leifer Affair”. Leitzman will pay a laughable fine, but also a suspended prison sentence.
Haaretz explains the details (since Charedi media sure won’t):
The indictment against Litzman alleged that while he was serving as deputy health minister between 2015 and 2018, he pressured the ministry’s Jerusalem district psychiatrist to alter his professional opinion on Leifer’s psychological fitness in order to prevent her from being extradited. In the end, Leifer’s claim was rejected, and she was extradited last January.
The plea deal announcement issued by the attorney general’s office asserted that Litzman had exploited his position as a deputy minister “with the intention of preventing or thwarting legal proceedings or causing a miscarriage of justice.”
A second case against Litzman, in which he allegedly sought to block the Health Ministry from closing a delicatessen near his home, will be closed.
The delicatessen affair involved a business called Beit Yisrael whose license Health Ministry inspectors planned to rescind, partly because of the discovery of listeria contamination in its prepared salads.Litzman, a regular customer who was friendly with its owner, was accused of demanding that Jerusalem district food inspectors allow the business to remain open. He allegedly insisted on this despite warnings from the inspectors that allowing the delicatessen to stay open “constituted a real danger to the public.”
Of course, the real criminal here is the Gerrer Rebbe, who doubtless sent Litzman on the pedophile-saving mission for his Chassidiste, Malka Leifer, in the first place. As Leitzman once admitted in an interview, his “party primaries” consist of pleasing only one person – his Rebbe.
But the boss will pay nothing and suffer nothing in this world.
Of course, there is much more to say about this man, but that must wait.