Shalom from Yerushalayim! These updates will mostly be brief excerpts of something we have studied that I found inspirational and informative! Please read below!
Shalom from Yerushalayim! These updates will mostly be brief excerpts of something we have studied that I found inspirational and informative! Please read below!
KehillatShaarHaShamayim - Rabbi's Israel Blog - Day 3
Shalom from Yerushalayim!
These updates will mostly be brief excerpts of something we have studied that I found inspirational and informative!
Please read below!
From the writings of Rabbi Moshe Chagiz(click here to read about him) in which he writes sharp words to a man who had been taught by his rabbis that the Land of Israel is not so important (free translation):
"And if you will say in your heart that you heard these words from Chachamim (Torah scholars) who know how to learn [Torah]...
I am forced to tell you that there is no doubt in my mind that any Chacham - according to you words - who thinks this way, this must not be his first mistake, and it is necessary to assume that winds of heresy have overcome him, and the Torah which he has studied has turned into poison...
Or, what is more probable to me, is that he is not really a Chacham at all. And if he studied Torah, he did not study Mishnah, and if he studied Mishnah, it must be that his rabbis did not teach him these words properly...
Therefore - you who is beloved to me like a brother - flee from "Chachamim" like this that did not study properly (by the side of real Torah scholars), and who are considered sages only according to themselves, the same way you would flee from the original Snake [from the Garden of Eden]. And do not heed their words for they will speak very eloquently before you, but I with my own eyes have seen many of them, who with the help of their great imagination and with they polluted minds - think that they have a (wise) heart like the hearts of the divine Chachamim, our early rabbis. It is [due to their imagination] that they philosophize like chirping birds and say anything that comes to their mind; [they do this] and destroy, and trample [the teachings of the Torah] before their communities, as if they themselves are great enough to argue with the words of our Talmudic Sages, or to explain their words [incorrectly].
...Their explanations are nothing but heresy, uprooting the foundations [of our faith, which destroy our religion - which will one day surely seek her honor from them and from those who could have protested and chose not to.
For surely I have no complaint against the masses who follow them, for they lack understanding and do not know how to different between [true] Chachamim and those who [just[] imitate the Chachamim..."
Lunch with my dear friend Rabbi Avi Kozma, Chief Rabbi of Macedonia.
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