A serious incident occurred on Sunday morning 24 Nissan in the Be’er Shmuel Beis Medrash on Sorotzkin Street in Yerushalayim. An avreich shouted epithets about Maran HaGaon HaRav Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman Shlita until he was removed from the beis medrash.
The incident occurred immediately as shachris ended, when the chareidi male began shouting against the Rosh Yeshiva and the draft of bnei yeshivos into the IDF. The person gave the appearance of siding with the Bnei Torah/Yerushalmi faction headed by HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Auerbach Shlita.
Others present told the shouter that they are uninterested in one viewpoint or another but would not tolerate such language used against Gedolei Yisrael. When the male would not stop, he was escorted out of the beis medrash.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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12 Responses
In all probability he is slightly unbalanced. This is newsworthy? Are you desperate or are you really taking all your readers for a grand ride to make some cheap advertising dollars??
It’s ridiculous that YWN reports such an incident. Some guy is off his rocker. Alright who cares?
I don’t agree with comments above. Such things don’t happen in a vacuum and are indicative of a societal problem. Part of the job of a news agency is to report on societal trends.
I think it would help Jews more than hurt them to understand that there are problems.
I guess YWN is no better than KIkar Hashabes bchadrei Chreidim, if you deem this valuable news to post, wow
To no 1 & 2
It was interesting enough for you two to click on the story & read it. Obviously it’s newsworthy
Is there a reason why YWN refers to this nutcase as an Avreich and a frum man?? In my opinion he is neither no matter what clothes or hat he wears. What right does anyone have to ‘challenge’ a gadol hador???
I certainly wouldn’t call him an “avreich”, generally a team used for people sitting and learning in Kollel.
This article is very inaccurate. I was present when this incident occurred. A 15 year old pisher named Leitner went over to a very chashuve talmid chacham and started yelling at him an cursing him in middle of shacharis. He claimed he overheard him in a conversation with someone a few days earlier say something derogatory about Harav Shteinman. If this kid would know his place and not poke his head where it doesn’t belong, nothing would’ve happened. Hi father should lay him on a bed and derlang him a good spanking that h deserves.
the term “Avreich” nowadays only means a [young] chareidy dressed man. It does not mean he learns in kollel.
Is not this article loshen Horah? Especially if this is this persons picture?
Why not call him an avreich thats exactly what he is. And he has the litvishe temper that we all know of. If tou ask them they will say its leshem shomayim. If a sefardi would do it it would be ” its just the sefardim fighting again”. Im happy this happenes , true colors of the ashkenazim are now showing