While the crazies of Mea Shearim and their offshoots in other areas, known as the "sikrikim" or thugs, mostly provide us with upsetting news of conflict, they are also good for the occasional humorous moments.
This article on Kikar Shabbos website about the sikrikim/thugs response to the yeshiva bochur from Japan's release provides the perfect humorous interlude a busy day can always use.
Since Yoel Goldstein was released from his Japanes jail cell a few days ago and returned to Israel (speedily with the help of Minister of Interior Eli Yishai cutting through the bureaucracy), Goldstein has been making the rounds going to various rabbonim, hassidic rebbes and gedolim getting blessings and asking for continued prayer for the remaining bochur in Japan.
So, of course, we now get to the sikrikim and their plucky chutzpa. Sit back and enjoy.
Yesterday, Goldstein went to pay a visit to Rav Ovadia Yosef, along with Minister of Interior Eli Yishai. The sikrikim are upset that he went to pay such a visit. They said "Rav Ovadia is a leader of a zionist organization and Goldstein should not have gone to him. Goldstein resides in Mea Shearim, and it is not possible that he should go and meet with a Zionist minister, and the rav of the Zionists. It does not matter what the reason is. We are not interested in the fact that Eli Yishai helped him come back to Eretz Yisrael. He is a Zionist, and nothing else changed. [Goldstein] should not have gone to the Zionists to start with. Hashem would have helped him without those impure people."
Even among the kannoim there is not complete agreement. Others are of the opinion that the meeting was necessary. Someone from the Eida said (note how these kannoim almost always speak anonymously) "When we need to use the Zionists, there is nothing we can do. Even the Gaavad of the Eida met with the Minister of Interior when dealing with the case of the "Starving Mother" - would anybody be able to say that Rav Weiss is a Zionist?! You must understand - we do not take budgets from the State and we do not benefit from them, but when we have to use them and there is no other way, then we cooperate. When there were cases we suspected there would be autopsies, we went to Meir Porush who is a Zionist to sign agreements with the police. The sikrikim can say what they want, but we have rabbonim and they decide what is right."
I hope you enjoyed the humor in that.
well i for one, am shocked...
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No surprise here. Eschewing hakaras hatov and treating it as a sin is their 614th mitzvah.
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ReplyDeleteRafi,
ReplyDeleteYour blog is such a nice place , except when you put down those "Blacker" then you. Do Not Knock the "Adah". As an Anglo and an outsider you can possible imagine what when on here at the time of the founding of the state and its beginning years. It was a fight for each neshamah.
If you would like to understand it a little try reading the 2nd volume
of "The Brisker Rov" by Yosef Meller.
as Rabbi DOvd Landesman says, you can continue to look at Eretz Yisrael as if it is 1950, or maybe it is time to move on
ReplyDeleteI dont put down those blacker than me (whatever that means. I am fine with everybody, from white to black. My kids go to schools that many would say are blacker than me, and many of the shuls I daven in are blacker than me. I am fine with everybody and anybody. the only thing I am not fine with is when one person tries to force his way on another person. and for that it does not matter how black the person is or is not.
ReplyDeletein this situation it is a certain group trying to force their way on other people.