In a bein hazmanim drasha, Rabbi David Yosef Shlita spoke of the rosha in the haggadah, explaining that today, this refers to Reform Jews.
Rabbi Yosef was giving a weekly drasha in the Yechavei Daas Shul in Har Nof. He explains the “rosha” in today’s generation are the Reform, who eat chametz during Pesach.
Quoting the haggadah the rav explained we read ‘רשע מה הוא אומר – מה העבודה הזאת לכם’, asking when the rosha questions what it is we are doing, we seek to understand what is bothering him. When the rosha asks, who questions what the mitzvah is. He explains the Reform have their nice leaders and tradition and nice words but eat chametz on Pesach but continue to preach “keeping the mesora” (tradition).
Rav Yosef adds “They say that they believe in G-d, or they claim to, but I do not know how one can believe in the Torah and eat chametz. This is the rosha of the haggadah, the Reform. He questions what we are doing, the mitzvos and speak of ‘emunah in the heart’”.
“For us” concludes Rav Yosef “We believe in the Torah HaKadosha”.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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10 Responses
Lovely, more intra-Judaic hatred.
Moshiach is far away.
Dear Opinionated Jew,
Can you please look at STATISTICS from the recent from the recent Pew report on assimilation. Look into Reform’s numbers.
Reform Judaism is finishing off Hitler’s YM mission. It’s a fact, not a ‘feeling”
I would make a small correction to Rav Yosef’s statement. It’s not the reform members who are the wicked sons. The average reform Jews are the ignorant sons.
Their leaders are wicked.
The the hagodoh, which has the strongest expression of davening for geulah, but nevertheless shows us how to identify a Jewish rosho, consideredin your eyes then?
It’s not hatred. It’s a statement of fact.
We don’t hate the reform reshoim but we do make it clear that they are reshoim by their own definition of what they stand for.
The the hagodoh, which has the strongest expression of davening for geulah, but nevertheless shows us how to identify a Jewish rosho, considered hateful in your eyes then?
It’s not hatred. It’s a statement of fact.
We don’t hate the reform reshoim but we do make it clear that they are reshoim by their own definition of what they stand for.
Since you seem to be in close communion with God, can you please ask him the lottery numbers for me?
Tanya states that every person who does one aveira is a rasha. Why? Because he is going against Hashem at that time. (Of course, his teshuva is accepted.) A person who doesn’t do any aveiros but thinks about doing it is a benoni. A person who doesn’t think about doing an aveira and doesn’t do one is a tzaddik. This is all in a nutshell but is worth looking into, and is a different categorization than that of the Rambam.
Now that 99.99% of us can categorize ourselves as reshoim, let’s not be against others who are in the same category but at least have an excuse why they do what they do. The majority of non-from people didn’t go to yeshiva and don’t have the perspective of a frum person. How could they when they didn’t get the education? Then any mitzva they must be precious to Hashem and weighs a lot.
But we do have a frum perspective and still do aveiros. Can we say we are closer to Hashem than anyone else? Maybe the Reform Jew’s mitzva is more precious and that makes him closer? I don’t think we can judge from Hashem’s perspective. The Lubavitcher Rebbe didn’t like the term “doing kiruv”. That implies we are close and the other is far.
To #1 – “intra-Judaic” hatred? Reform is not Jewish.
Don’t call it “Reform Jewry”. Reform practices are not related to Judaism, they are a cult with made-up rules.
#1 This is not hatred. thats what the gemmora states . those who desecrate the taryak and bring the ‘choren af’ kidsh berich hu on klall yisroel the talmud , tnach etc lables them reshoim
WOW etc are definately in that category
To all of you who consider Reform reshaim or not Judaism, just remember, you would have all walked into the ovens together during the Shoah.
How soon we forget in our present-day comforts of how bad it was for ALL Jews not too long ago.
There were reformed Jews before any of us were born and there will be reformed Jews after we are all gone.
Viewing them as the enemy is not the way to go.
You want to mekarev them, gei gezunte heit, but to show disdain for people who think differently?
What’s next? Looking down on people because they don’t hold choler yisroel or their wives don’t cover their heads or they have a TV in their house? Oh, that’s right. we’re already there.
The shortsightedness on this site is astounding.
#9 ‘looking down ….’?! What religon do you practice….? yes all yu mention is isur doiraysealso i dont look down on chritians just that theyre not jewish…Reform , looking down?1why. but you movements reject torah misinai, oral torah…so what you want.
so if hitler killed gypsies i should includ gypsies in judaism?