The Skulener Rebbe ztvk”l

The Rebbe would have preferred if all people attending his Levaya. Instead go to any Bais Medrash and learn for the same 3 hours as a zchus for him and for all he did for klal Yisroel for the 95 years he was an eved Hashem serving Hashem 24-7

May his neshama have an aliya.

Make a 1 hour daily/weekly learning Seder as a special zchus for his neshama and as a sign of appreciation for all the Rebbe did FOR YOU any time you needed help from him.

Sam Klien – “The Rebbe would have preferred if all people attending his Levaya. Instead go to any Bais Medrash and learn for the same 3 hours as a zchus for him and for all he did for klal Yisroel ”

Did he communicate this to you?

Chazal say godol shimusha yoser m’limuda, it is greater to be meshamesh talmidei chachomim then to learn Torah. That is my when a gadol is niftar, the yeshivas and kollel stop their learning and come out to give kovod l’Torah.

See Megillah 3b, Rosh (Moed Katan 3:61), Shulchan Aruch YD 361:1

For someone who learned Torah and Mishna the minimum honor he should receive is a levaya of at least 600,000 people escorting him. The Shach 361:3 explains that 600,000 people are needed to honor a person who learned Torah because just like torah was given with 600,000 men in attendance so too when a person who embodies Torah is taken from the world 600,000 people should be in attendance.

I’m not a Skulener ( I knew his father Z”TL, a tzaddik ) but there’s something wrong here.
First, let’s deal with the rules that the bochorim broke. Ok, so punish them , make them eat dry bagels with halvah for a week, let them stand in the corner for 10 days, and gamarnu.
But I’d like to hear from that rosh yeshiva as to what his real reason was… the real emes…. Quoting Shulchan Aruchs isn’t going to cut it. A levayeh is Torah, it’s one of the most important mitzvos – showing kavod to a human, a Yid, and especially a beloved rebbe.
I’m convinced that some, many, if not all of these bochorim’s parents knew what they were going to do.
They didn’t cut seder to play at an arcade. So, kibud av is also part of this picture.
A similar thing happened to me , where a rebbe of my offspring disallowed him to be with family for a simcha ( I don’t want to give pratim). So the rebbe disregarded kibbud and respect for siblings, parents, grandparents, and in our case, a great-grandparent, who was since nifter. Derech eretz kadma l’Torah..
I’m bothered by the control that is exercised by roshei yeshiva and rebbes here and in EY who refuse to allow a bochur to come home for an occasion or leave the yeshiva for a while for another pressing need.
Besides- what he did here is to to re-open the old anti- Chassidc feud, which is already making the rounds.

Sam Klien – ‘On a separate note anyone could have also watched the funeral live online or listened to it on the kosher phone and saved many wasted hours of traveling that those travel hours could have been used to learn extra as a zchus for his neshama.’

i cited the chiyuv of going to a levaya, the halacha: “mevatlin talmid torah l’halvoyas ha’mes” – we abolish learning Torah to attend a levaya. But you still miss the point. You seem to think that the focus of the levaya is on the living. There fore they can see the levaya remotely, on line etc.

How is watching the levaya on line an act of levayas ha’mes?! Do you think “hashgocha” is the purpose of a levaya 9to supervise_?! Hashgocha can and is done by watching remotely on line, but partcipants in a levaya are not mashgichim.

Next time you are hungry, watch the food on line and let us know if it satisfied your hunger.

Talking about the Rebbe ZT”L’s kanois, there’s a regular sport on this site (usually on the main page but sometimes here too) that whenever a talmid chochom, rosh yeshiva or rov in Eretz Yisroel smashes a smartphone to demonstrate Yiddishe opposition to those devices (for the obvious reasons) we witness a whole slew of random posters make chozek of the talmid chochom, with the typical daas baalei batim commentary.

While some or many people know the Rebbe ZT’L, who we just witnessed had over 100,000 Yidden attend his levaya with grown men crying over the petira of a 95 year old demonstrating his universally acknowledged tzidkus recognized across the spectrum and his counsel sought throughout Klal Yisroel, was a big kanoi against smartphones, what fewer people remember is that for many decades before the advent of smartphones he was just as big a kanoi against televisions. And, yes, just as our repeated protagonists here who gives these internet commenteretti so many fits and balls when they smash smartphones, the Rebbe ZT’L would annually smash a television and burn it with the chometz.

Just in time for Pesach, rabbosai. You, too, can throw it in the fire. Do it l’zecher nishmas the Rebbe ZT”L.

….and smartphones galore recorded the event, so please…..

regarding these bachurim, the rebbeim may have been and likely were dead wrong. but if you want to lead a successful life, you need to trust in daas torah whomever that may be for you. it is not healthy to encourage these boys to disobey their rebbeim’s psak regardless of what they think. And once they did and are disciplined, to force the rebbeim to admit defeat?! if im a rebbi in that yeshiva im out. you cant help a bachur who will only hear what he wants to.