8 Responses

1. Is this about the war or about government funding of yeshiva? Not clear from the text.

2. והיה אם שמוע תשמעו אל מצות …..
   ונתתי מטר ארצכם בעתו יורה ומלקוש ואספת דגניך ותירושך ויצהריך. ונתתי עשב בשדך לבהמתך ואכלת ושבעת.
   השמרו לכם פן יפתה לבבכם וסתם ועבדתם אלוהים אחרים…..
   וצר את השמים ולא יהיה מטר ואדמה לא תתן את יבולה…..

   According to the תורה, and we say twice a day, the main (in fact, ONLY focus), is Gashmiyus. If you follow the mitzvos, you have good gashmiyus, and chas veshalom the opposite…..

   Ruchniyus leads to Avoda Zara, which causes bad gashmiyus.

   The Emesdige Torah Hashkafa is Gashmiyus. The goyim are into ruchniyus. ALL ruchniyus comes from the goyim.

   Punk Farkert!! The 2 main yamim tovim in the Torah, focus ONLY on gashmiyus. Shavous, Yom haBikkurim, is when you start making the first money of the year. The Torah says about Shavuos ושמחת בכל הטוב.
   Sukkos is the main Yom Tov, חג האסיף בצאת השנה באספך את מעשיך מן השדה.
   We are CELEBRATING that we made a lot of money this year!! The Schach represents the gashmiyus that Hashem Yisborach gave us this year!!

   And when does the Torah talk about happiness שמחה?? Shavous and Sukkos!! And Sukkos the most!!!!

   ושמחת בחגיך והיית אך שמח

   The Ikar שמחה is from gashmiyus.

   The MAIN focus of the Torah hashkafa is gashmiyus. ALL the ברכות וקללות in the Torah are gashmiyus related. Ruchniyus is a goyishe zach, punkt farkert!!!!!!
   On ruchniyus, the Torah zagt ונשמרתם מאד לנפשותיכם…. פן יפתה לבבכם….

3. Happy: Thanks for the Purim Torah.

4. There are עניים in our community who are being told by gvirim and their gabbaim in Lakewood that they can only get צדקה once a year! Even though it is a situation of פיקוח נפש, the gvirim will not give. As we learn from the ערי מקלט, the רוצח בשוגג had to wait for the כה”ג to pass away in order to be freed. חז”ל explain that this is because it happened on the כה”ג’s watch. לענ”ד, perhaps our gedolim should be מפשפש and recognize that these צרות have R”L befallen us on their watch. As the three weeks approach, let us remember ציון במשפט תפדה ושביה בצדקה

5. Thank you so much for posting this.
   I hope that a recording will be posted so that cynics who expected this to be nothing more than teenager-level, empty rhetoric coupled with mindless, predictable platitudes will be able to see for themselves how wrong they were.

   I hope that there will be a transcript as well, maybe even a book.

6. “ALL ruchniyus comes from the goyim….”

   So thats the secret!!! Get all the bochurim out of kollel and drag them off into the army so they can be better prepared to pursue gashmiyus in its many forms and leave the rabbonim lingering in empty batei medrashim ranting about the virtues of limud torah and goiyeshe ruchniyus to those few still lingering to hear their empty words.

7. Glad to see that the recording is available.
   Lest anyone think the speeches were self-serving and that the Agudah has undergone significant change since its inception in Europe and continuation in America, under Rav Moshe, where the focus was on supporting the interests of the average Yid and has now become how the average Yid can support kollelim, let them listen to the speeches here.

8. Today we are in galus, in a world without hashraas haShchina, in a world of שכר מצות בהאי עלמא ליכא, unfortunately, so obviously certain things are going to be different.

   But let’s not lose focus on the Ikar min haTorah. The way it’s supposed to be.

   אם בחוקתי תלכו…… ונתתי גשמיכם בעתם

   ואם בחוקותי תמאסו…. חס ושלום.

   ואכלת ושבעת וברכת את….. על הארץ הטובה אשר נתן לך….. ארץ זבת חלב ודבש