Yad L’achim has been informed that there are missionaries roaming around the Boro Park/Flatbush area. They are often easily identifiable, but may sometimes pose as religious/Orthodox Jews. They may begin to speak with Hebrew words such as Shalom Aleichem and Baruch Hashem, with no mention of their goal initially. They first mask their true intentions while engaging in conversation.
Do not engage them in any conversations under any circumstances!!!!
Walk away!!!!
Parents, please make your children aware!!
In addition, Yad L’achim has also been informed that missionary hotlines are calling Jewish homes. They speak about “Moshiach” and the “Bris Chadasha” (new testament). If a missionary hotline does call your house, please hang up the phone immediately!!
If one should receive any media or literature in the mail, please throw it away!!!
Do not spiritually endanger yourselves!
Kesivah V’chasimah Tova to all!
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Personally, I love it when missionaries try to debate me. I take the offensive and quote various verses from the Tanach — always in Hebrew and English — to show them that it is impossible that the Moshiach has come (basically quoting for them the unfullfilled prophecies that presage the Messianic Age, among them the obviously absent world peace. When they tell me that that will happen when their guy returns, I say, “why should he get a ‘mulligan’ [a golf term for an illegal replay of a shot without penalty] and all of the other people who might have been Moshiach don’t. I find most missionaries have only very limited knowledge of Tanach. Its fun when they get on the defensive, realizing that they’re out of their league. But, before I start, I warn them that that is what will happen. They hate it when people use their own tactics. One guy told me “that’s [not fair], you’re quoting verses I don’t know.”
baruchgershom:
Please use caution, and appeal for siyata dishmaya in the process. Brilliant minds of the past, such as Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan ZT”L recommended avoiding the dialogue altogether… since many are trained in the art of confusing people. Many solid G-d fearing people have found themselves shockingly confused – sometimes months or years later.
When Yad L’achim says:
“Do not engage them in any conversations under any circumstances!!!!
Walk away!!!!”
It is due to their painful experiences, R”L.
If you can determine whether or not the person you are talking to was born a Jew, you can be mispallel for them while they blab. That way you are keeping them busy, preventing them from their mission, and maintaining your connection to kedusha, while caring about the neshama of another yid!
Otherwise… playing with fire is a dangerous game.
Shomer Yisroel, Shmor Sh’airis Yisroel, v’al Yo’vad Yisrael, Haomerim Shma Yisroel.
Those people aren’t all bad. In their efforts to convert me…they made me frum!
Baruch HaShem for the missionaries! (or at least the ones HaShem sent to me)
I fully agree with Thinking out loud; its simply not worth it; you won’t make the guy reverse his position and the danger is there that a stupid as it may sound argument will sit in your brain just too long, although you win the argument.
yes. baruchgershom is adopting a dangerous tact. you might be a pro, but amateurs could fall, and be snared by their wicked ways.