If you can read Hebrew, that is.
With Heaven’s help, our compact and inflected 5-page Hebrew pamphlet works well. You may not “convince” your opponent per se, but you will wipe that smirk right off his face, and probably shut him up for awhile.
Subscribe to Hyehudi’s daily newsletter to receive our free guide to defeating atheists!
There is a pronouncement going around to the effect a Beis Din is adjudicating the matter, so no one may speak against E. Berland.
But…
First of all, this “injunction” (and the not-disrespectful title for Berland yemach shemo) is temporary, until the court reaches the verdict.
And this prohibition pertains only to those who signed a Shtar Berurin, his full-time opponents, not me, nor you. We still have the full obligation to warn Jews away from a man whose guilt is beyond doubt (the Chafetz Chaim doesn’t require a Beis Din).
Why is a new court case needed when the matter was already decided by a prior court (headed by Rabbi Nachman Ze’ev Frank and Rabbi Ya’acov Meir Shechter shlita) — find the verdict here (and translated)?!
Originally, the matter was supposed to go before more important courts (like the present tribunal), but these had insisted a decision first be rendered by Breslov’s own rabbis. So, here we are (after quite an interval, let me add!). And Berland didn’t show to the original court’s hearings, claiming they were biased. (“Biased” because they already knew him, but not because they had opposed him before! (Indeed, many rabbis had long known of his extreme wrongdoing but inexcusably did nothing about it when they could have saved countless victims until things became public anyhow.) Are they even allowed to re-open the case?!
By the way, there is good reason to assume the document’s language and signatures are at least partially false. Beis Din rarely issues such announcements, let alone paying for wide distribution, so these are typically re-assembled and altered by the side who wishes them made public.
Update: That same Beis Din subsequently found the abominable Berland guilty as sin, of course:
The Lubavitcher Rebbe once said:
“The fact that many rabbis in America don’t have beards, and that Yidden flee from a community when goyim move nearby, and that land in Eretz Yisroel is being given away, – these are all rooted in the same problem: the inferiority complex the Yidden have with regard to goyim. If only Yiddishe pride would be strong, all these issues would be resolved.”
“Living Jewish, issue 691#, Parshas Shelach” p. 3
I just heard from an acquaintance that he used to work at a Haifa “Rabbanut” slaughterhouse. His job was to assist the Rabbanut Mashgiach. When he saw something problematic לעיכובא, he was to press a button stopping the electric conveyer belt (“the line”).
He tried to do his job. When he saw problems, he actually pressed the button, as he was told (such as Melicha on only one side, and not the majority). So, the Mashgiach in charge told him he was costing the owner money, and must not do that too often. He quit that minute… and the operation continued smoothly without him.
I heard the same story from another Jew years ago, but I don’t remember details.