דיו לעבד להיות כרבו! – הגרי”ח זוננפלד על משבר הדיור

הסיפור מוכר דיו, אבל כעת זמנו:

בשנת תר”פ מונה ע”י הממשלה הבריטית נציב עליון לארץ ישראל. הוא היה יהודי במוצאו, ולאחר שמונה ביקש להיפגש עם רבה של ירושלים הגאון רבי יוסף חיים זוננפלד זצוק”ל.

באותה העת התגורר רבי יוסף חיים בדירה קטנה ועלובה בבתי מחסה בעיר העתיקה. תלמידיו ומקורביו הציעו לו שיחליף את דירתו בדירה מכובדת לצורך המפגש החשוב עם הנציב העליון, אך רבי יוסף חיים סירב, בטענה כי לא הוא ביקש להיפגש עם הנציב העליון, אלא הנציב העליון הוא שביקש להיפגש עמו… והוסיף, שאם הם רוצים, יכולים הם להחליף את מפת השולחן לכבודו של האורח החשוב.

ביום המיועד הגיע הנציב העליון לביתו של רבי יוסף חיים מלווה במשלחת חשובה. עם כניסתו לדירת הרב, שהיתה דירת מרתף חשוכה, חציה מתחת לאדמה, שאל את הרב האם לא היה יכול למצוא מקום יותר עמוק באדמה להתגורר בו…

הרב לא השיב ישירות על השאלה, אלא בעדינות הפנה את הנציב העליון לחלון ופתח את הוילון, משם נשקף נוף הר הבית החרב ועליו בית התיפלה המוסלמי. דמעות נשרו מעיניו והתגלגלו על לחיו, והוא אמר: “כל זמן שאלוקי האהוב והיקר לי שוכן בחורבות, ביתי לא צריך להיות טוב יותר”…

תשובת הרב הדהימה את הנציב העליון, וכהלום רעם עזב את דירת הרב בדומיה של יראת כבוד.

(ע”פ אהל משה ו’)

מאתר דרשו, כאן.

The War? You’re the Enemy, Not Hamas or Whatever!

A recent sample from Chanaya Weissman’s hard-hitting newsletters…

An excerpt:

A reader shared:

“Found this (below) on an online forum for frum women. She obviously doesn’t understand that it’s intentional but her awareness is commendable nevertheless. Many posters agree with her.”

I am pro serving in the IDF and protecting our country

I don’t agree with the chareidi outlook of letting others take the risk and not helping.

I do acknowledge that there are spiritual concerns but they need to be worked through and neither side is doing a good job of it.

But

What no one seems to want to discuss is that we have a huge problem with the government. The politicians (both the right, and the left) are using the soldiers as political pawns. They are risking soldier lives for Pali lives. Soldiers die because of bad decisions made up top and that is just unacceptable. I feel that it may even override the obligation to serve. My boys are not cannon fodder for them to salvage Israel’s destroyed reputation with the world. I don’t care more about what the UN says than I care about the soldiers. The aid, the Hitnatkut, the negotiating, the protecting “innocent” civilians, the supplying of fuel and resources, the release of thousands of terrorists, and and on and on and on. All the horrific decisions made by the government makes me feel that they lost their right to claim my child for their army. I don’t owe them my boys life if they don’t treasure it the way I do. Idealism is beautiful but only for EY and the jewish people. Not for a weak government who won’t do what needs to be done to protect their people. I don’t owe them that.

I’m conflicted. I believe in protecting the country and our people. I don’t believe in dying for weak corrupt politicians.

Signed a non chareidi mom with teen boys almost at draft age.

My comments:

Not dying as cannon fodder might override the obligation to serve? Whoa! Does the Torah support THAT?!

Yes, it’s a significant step in the right direction. It’s a crack in the brainwashing that we should definitely view as an opportunity. But if it took decades of collaborating with and supporting our enemies, so much needless carnage, and upwards of 20,000 Jewish soldiers maimed and killed in less than two years for nothing just to raise this question, it underscores how deep the kefirah brainwashing still is. I bet they would still react to my articles with extreme hostility. We have our work cut out for us.


Read the rest here…

Betting on the Moors over the Crusaders?! European Jews: Make Aliyah now!

Satire, but it’s not funny enough to be inappropriate for the time:

Pope Shrugs, Signs Over Notre Dame To Waqf For Use As Mosque

“Within a couple of generations, it’s questionable whether there will be any Christians at all left in Europe.”

Paris, July 14 – Demographic shifts and political considerations have led the head of the Roman Catholic Church to bow to reality and present one of the world’s most famous and elaborate churches to French Muslims to serve as their house of worship and no longer function as a cathedral, the Vatican announced today.

Beginning January 1, 2027, Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral will come under the control of the Islamic Council of France, as Catholicism is on the decline in France and Islam continues to grow at a remarkable rate. Pope Leo XIV signed the transfer document yesterday, and made a statement to the media expressing sadness that the eight-hundred-year-old church no longer serves much of a purpose in catering to France’s and Europe’s shrinking Christian population, but also voiced his hope that the Muslims will take care of the historic building.

“They have much more use for it than we do,” the pope admitted. “Within a couple of generations, it’s questionable whether there will be any Christians at all left in Europe. Certainly not in Paris.”

The arrangement calls for the Catholic Church to remove any iconography and sacred detachable items that it deems appropriate to preserve, such as statues of the Virgin Mary and various stained glass windows. The building’s Gothic facade, which features numerous sculptures of Christian religious and historical import, will undergo a special facelift to remove those images, which fall afoul of Islamic sensibilities on depictions of various sorts. The removed and detached paraphernalia of Notre Dame will take up residence at a new museum in Rome, at least until such time as the Vatican itself becomes an Islamic shrine sometime in the next 75 years.

Church and Waqf negotiators agreed on the start of 2027 for the transfer: it provides enough time for the salvage and facade work while effecting the transfer with enough time before Ramadan of that year, which commences on Sunday, February 7, for the Waqf to implement any aesthetic or functional changes it deems necessary ahead of Ramadan and the Eid el-Fitr festival that marks that lunar month’s conclusion.

The transfer of Notre Dame de Paris marks the largest such gifting so far of an underused Christian institution to the up-and-coming Muslim community in Europe, but numerous smaller-scale donations of churches and church institutions have taken place over the last two decades amid the demographic shifts and the Vatican’s longstanding policy of appeasing Islamists.

From PreOccupied Territory, here.