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AviraDeArah
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Commonsaychel; not that I think it matters, but I do have a shaychus to people who are “shem davar”s in satmar…the version I’ve heard a lot from one of my rebbeim, who grew up in Williamsburg, is that the satmar rov said to the lubavitcher rebbe, that if a house is on fire, do you save the broken furniture or the intact pieces? The lubavitcher rebbe supposedly said that we’re dealing with neshomos, not furniture. My understanding is that the satmar rov’s opposition to kiruv was more because we needed to rebuild our kehilos rather than spend resources on helping others. Can you bring a source to the contrary?

For the record, many people who are related to gedolim cannot be used as evidence of what that gadol held. Some of Rav Moshe’s einiklach are a very, very good example of this.