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My four decades of experience with secular Jews taught me this lesson:
Nothing is more futile than attempting to influence secular Jews in the direction of mitzvah observance. It is a total waste of time, 99.95% of the time.
Charedim refusing to serve in the Israeli Army has made the Charedim the most hated people in Israel – even more hated than the Arabs!
Add to that the many scandals involving Charedim, that make Charedim even more hated.
Add to that the high percentage of Charedim in Israel who do not pay taxes because they do not work, this makes Charedim even more hated.
Charedim cannot influence secular Jews to mitzvah observance, because Charedim are the most hated people in Israel.
Instead of trying to improve secular Jews, Charedim should try to improve themselves.
In the average Ashkenazic synagogue,
the % of kohanim is around 1% to 3%.In the average Syrian synagogue,
the % of Kohanim is around 30% to 35%.Since the Torah prohibits Kohanim from marrying
converts [gerim], is it wise to permit converts in
a community where 30% of the men are Kohanim?Additionally, some poskim [whose names I unfortunately
cannot remember] have written that Kohanim who are
Syrian and/or Sephardic have a greater [or better]
mesorah of kehunah than Ashkenazic Kohanim,
which makes the prohibition against Kohanim
marrying converts even greater for Kohanim
who are Syrian and/or Sephardic.For example: When a Syrian Kohen performs a
Pidyon HaBen, he NEVER gives the money back,
because the Syrian Rabbis hold that there is
no doubt [safek] on the identity of their Kohanim.Compare this to Ashkenazic Kohanim, who return
the Pidyon HaBen money, because they fear
a doubt [safek] on their identity of their Kohanim.Is it wise to permit converts in a community
where 30% of men are Kohanim, who have
no safek on their yichus as Kohanim?To receive quick Torah quotes every month,
please go to:
https:// groups.io /g/DerechEmet/[1] In Tanach, Nehemiah (chapter 13, verses 23 to 24)
bemoaned the fact that after 70 years of exile,
many Jews of his generation had forgotten
how to speak Hebrew:[2] Tosefta, tractate Chagigah, chapter 1, paragraph 3:
…[A Jewish child who is old enough] to know
how to speak, his father [must] teach him:
Shema, and Torah, and the Hebrew language
[Lashon HaKodesh].
And if he does not, [then] it would be better
if he never would have been born.[3] Sifri, Parshat HaAzinu, near end of Piska 28:
Rabbi Meir taught: Whoever lives in the Land of Israel
and recites Shema morning and night and speaks Hebrew
[Lashon HaKodesh] he is worthy of Olam HaBa.For more quick Torah quotes like these, go to:
https:// groups. io/g/DerechEmet/The most logical articles about the Shidduch Crisis
are those written by Rabbi Chananya Weissman.I suggest this article:
How to create a Shidduch Crisis in 15 easy steps:
http://www. chananyaweissman. com/article.php?id=219Those who have money and yichus are treated with respect.
But what about: Baalei Teshuvah, gairim,
Sephardim, Russian Jews, and the poor?What about those Jews who observe mitzvot,
but do not wear The Uniform (white shirt &
black hat & all other clothes black)?One older bachur I know lives in an apartment building in one of NYC’s most Orthodox neighborhoods.
None of the Orthodox Jews who live in his apartment building are interested in learning Torah with him, nor are they interested in inviting him for Shabbat, nor are they interested in befriending him or even talking with him for more than a few minutes. Not even those who live on the same floor as him; not even those who live next-door to him; not even those who go to the same shul as him.
It is “every man for himself” – there is zero friendship and zero unity among Jewish neighbors, even though they have been living in the same apartment building for more than 25 years.
Is that normal? Is that what G_D wants from His people?ALL people who hate Jews are dangerous, and it is difficult to know with certainty who is the most dangerous, because nobody knows the future with certainty.
However, the political Far Left [also known as the Radical Left or The Woke or The Socialists] are especially dangerous to Jews, because they dominate numerous powerful institutions, for example:
almost the entire news media, almost the entire Hollywood entertainment industry, almost all High-Tech & Social Media companies [except for Twitter, recently bought by Elon Musk], almost the entire educational system [especially colleges and universities], almost the entire Democratic Party, and many non-Orthodox synagogues and large churches and big non-profit organizations (including Amnesty International, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, and the New Israel Fund, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam, NGO Monitor), and many more.