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As a survivor of abuse, I resent the way Walder’s suicide was recieved by the powers that be in Bnei Brak. There have been so many times in my life that I contemplated suicide. The pain was too much to bear. Killing myself seemed like the only respite. I would fantasize about it and do things that would allow me to feel closer to death. But I never did it. Not because I was afraid, not because I didn’t want to, but because I would have to answer up to my creator. I knew that suicide would not really put me out of my misery but cause a whole new problem for all of eternity. I fulfilled the mitzvah of vechai ba’hem lishmah, without any other ulterior motive other than I cannot go against my creator. Then comes this monster, the one who caused so many people to find themselves in the same predicament as me, and for no other reason other than not being able to face the music when the party was over, goes and murders himself and gets kavod melachim. It’s a chilul Hashem at its finest! Don’t think for a minute that suicide didn’t just become a little lighter in the eyes of those struggling with it. Don’t think for a minute that adultery and pedophilia didn’t just become a little less severe in the eyes of those who commit them or are tempted to. The churban they caused is immeasurable!

(Found on VIN News here.)

מתוך עלון הרב יהושע גריינימן על פרשת בא:

ולטטפת בין עיניך וגו’ (י”ג ט”ז), בגמ’ אמרינן טט בכתפי שנים וכו’, ולכאו’ צריך ביאור הכונה, ועיין דרשות ר”י אבן שעיב (מזמן הרשב”א) פרשת נח ושל”ה וגור אריה וט”ז ועוד, דר”ל שנשתרבב תיבות מלשון הקודש לבין העמים כדאיתא בגמ’ בכמה מקומות, ולא דח”ו מביאין מהן ראיות, וכעת ראיתי כתוב שמקרי דרדקי אחד שאל למרן ז”ל מה להסביר לתלמידיו ע”ז והשיב כנ”ל, א.ה. ז”ל ר”י אבן שועיב אבל דור הפלגה הכל היה שפה אחת ודברים אחדים והוא לשון הקדש כי כלם היו מדברים בו וכשנתפרדו בעונם נתקלקל הלשון ונתפרדו לשבעים אומות ולשבעים לשון, ונשאר לשון הקדש בישראל ובזרעם ואבדנו ממנו הרבה, ונשאר ממנו קצת בפי האומות, וזהו אמרם ז”ל ריש פרקין דסנהדרין טט בכתפי שתים פת באפריקי שתים, כי הוא לשון הקדש, וכן בראש השנה אמרינן שכן בערביא קורין לדכרא יובלא, כי חלילה שנלמוד מצותינו הקדושות מלשונות הגוים, ושנביא ראיה מלשונם הגרוע, אבל הוא לשון קדש נשאר בידם, והיתה הקבלה ביד חכמי ישראל כי אותו לשון הוא לשון הקדש, עכ”ל, ועי’ עוד בחו”ב מנחות ל”ד ב’ שכתוב בתוך הדברים והנה סבר ר’ עקיבא דלשון לטוטפת עצמו פירושו כמה בתים, ואין צריך למילף מרבויי, והוסיף עוד דאשכחן דטט ופת הם לשונות של שנים וכו’, עי”ש.

From Shimon Apisdorf’s “Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Survival Kit” Leviathan Press 2000, p.60:

An Israeli newspaper reported that tens of thousands of recent Russian immigrants, children and adults, have received a bris mila (circumcision) upon their arrival in Israel. Many of these take place in almost assembly line fashion with the mohel performing one after another. A newspaper reporter was questioning the immigrants waiting in line about the motivation for their actions. When asked if he believed in God, one middle-aged Russian who was raised on a steady diet of communist propaganda declared, “No, I don’t believe in God, I’m an atheist.” The curious reporter, a bit taken aback, went on, “Then why are you having a bris?” There in the land of Israel, the land of King David and the Maccabees, of the Western Wall and Ethiopian Jews, the Russian answered proudly, “Without a bris, it is impossible to be a Jew!”

I have read the following syllogism, inscribed in earnest and sent abroad in search of mass consent. Aristotle himself would be proud:

1. Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu supports the Corona vaccine.
2. Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu accuses Chaim Walder (well, Rabbi Eliyahu isn’t alone… but let’s ignore that).
3. Ergo, CW is probably innocent.

Q.E.D.

With crushing logic like this, I don’t suppose I stand a chance, but let me try to argue for the prosecution here.

You see, CW also supported the Corona vaccine, and I mean publicly.

Worse, Rabbi Eliyahu hasn’t stated an opinion one way or another on wearing masks (Note: this claim is unsupported in keeping with the honored custom of occasionally inserting unsupported claims in these sort of coolly-reasoned discussions), while CW has crudely propagandized for masking on behalf of the Health Ministry.

So, if anything… (vagueness is my friend here, so we’ll just stick with the ellipses.)

While your head spins, I now quote a recognized authority to appear smarter:

There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

~ Aristotle 

Anyway, how am I doing so far (Quick note to graphics guy: we need that impressive, bearded image of Aristotle in here before this goes out to our subscribers. I hope you’re listening this time)…?