הכנסת אורחים היא מצווה חשובה. מאברהם אבינו למדנו שגדולה הכנסת אורחים מקבלת פני השכינה.
האם כל אורחים רצויים בביתנו ?
האם תכניסו לביתכם ארחי – פרחי ? מי שיש חשש שיעביר מחלות מדבקות ?
אל תמהרו להשיב בחיוב.
בספריית הרמב”ם מצוי כתב היד של פנקס קהילת הייצפלד (כיום היידינספלד Heidinsfeld, מחוז וירצבורג, אשכנז).
הפנקס הוא מהשנים תפ”ד (1724) ועד שנת תקל”ד (1774).
הפנקס עבר לאחרונה תהליך שימור. מצאתי בתוכו מכתב מקופל שהודבק בין דפיו.
המכתב הוא בחתימתו של הרב שמחה בונים כהנא רפאפורט אב”ד במדינת שוורצבורג, והוא נשלח לגבאי הצדקה בקהילת גאסדארף. העתק נשלח גם לקהילת הייצפלד, ונאסף לתוף פנקס הקהילה.
המכתב נשלח כשהוא מקופל וסגור בחותם. בצדו החיצוני – התחתון בצילום – נרשם:
כ’ אדר תקל”א
מכתב מהרב… בונים כץ אב”ד במדינת שווארצבורג בגין ארחי ופרחי.
לשון המכתב מדלגת בין עברית לז’רגון המקומי של שפת היהודים. המעט שהצלחתי להבין הוא החלק שנכתב בעברית. אני מנחש שהמכתב כנראה עוסק במגפה שפרצה באיזור ובאיסור השלטונות לקבל חולים נודדים מחשש להפצת המגפה.
המכתב פותח :
בודאי כבר נודע בשערים את אשר עשו לנו יושבי שטעפט זה פעמיים ושלש אותן תחלאים עניים מדוכאים בני עמנו… באזהרה גדולה מהשררה… הנה יום אתמול לעת ערב בא ג”כ חולי אחד אשר שלחתם אותו לכאן ומפני בגידת הזמן ואישן לילה שלחנו אותו לכפר… ותקפו בידם החזקה ע”י השררה יר”ה את העגלה עם הסוס, אשר הוכרחנו לשלם להם….
ומסיים:
ויהי’ זאת לכם לאזהרה ולהיות מן המודיעים ולחוץ, לק”ק הייצפעלד ולכל הסביבה ואתם מהתם ואנן מהכא תנו על לבכם לבקש רפואה לחולי רעה זאת בעו”ה אשר מידות הדין גוברת עלינו כי חלינו המה נושאים וכמעט גוענו כלנו אבדנו ה’ יסיר חרון אפו ויצילנו מכל צרה וצוקה ובא המבשר ויאמר אקבצה להם ואשרקה הכ”ד רחימכם המדבר בצדקה שמחה בונים כהנא רפאפורט אב”ד הנ”ל ומדינות שוו”ב יע”א.
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The Talmud Yerushalmi in Kiddushin 4:1 states that a Kiddush Hashem is greater than a Chillul Hashem. It is clear, however, that the simple meaning of this expression is too obvious a statement to be an insight of the Talmud Yerushalmi.
Rather, the meaning of this passage reflects the idea that when both a Chillul Hashem and a Kiddush hashem are present in the same action, the Kiddush Hashem outweighs the Chillul hashem.
A few hours ago, in Eretz Yisroel three separate Chareidi Batei Dinim, after 18 months of (two of them) meticulously collecting evidence and testimony, issued a devastating ruling and declaration against Eliezer Berland. One such Beis Din was Zichron Meir Tzedek (Rav Shmuel Vosner’s Beis Din) which included Rabbi Shriel Rosenberg. Rabbi Shmuel Eliezer Stern, and Rabbi Yehuda Fisher, from the Eida HaChareidis Beis Din in Yerushalayim.
The Batei Dinim described the content of the testimonies that they had heard as “untoward acts” and “very serious behaviors.” They concluded that according to the opinion of our holy Torah everyone must stay away from
After describing the content of the testimonies in plain language as “acts that are not done and most serious acts”, the judges state: “It is clear that according to the opinion of our holy teachings, anyone who violates the three cardinal sins and their derivatives, someone who values his soul must stay away from him and one is obligated to act in this way.”
The second Beis Din was Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss, the head of the Eida Chareidis, Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, and Rabbi Chaim Meir Halevi Vozner. The third Beis Din that signed onto the conclusions of the other two were Rabbi Shevach Tzvi Rosenblatt, Rabbi Yehuda Silman, and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Lubin.
They further accused Berland’s followers of heresy for claiming in public and in writing that the crimes and sins he committed were permitted.
In the past, Rav Chaim Kanievsky advised people that Berland was a rasha. Berland has also told cancer patients not to proceed with medical treatment and that if they donate vast amounts of money to him and take certain pills (later found to be Mentos) they will be cured.
Translation of ruling:
Special Beis Din
Authorized by the Central Batei Dinim in Our Holy Land
BS”D Wednesday, 26 Iyar 5780
Psak Din
At the request of many, a special Beis Din was convened to investigate the rumors that have come out against the leader of the Shuvu Bonim community. In its proceedings explicit testimony was collected and proofs to actions that must never be done, some of them of the most serious nature. It is clear that according to our holy Torah a person who does not observe matters of the three cardinal sins and their derivatives – someone who is concerned about his soul must stay away from him and we are obligated to observe this.
The matter is very serious since some of his students and followers have Heaven forbid rationalized that it is permitted for a Tzaddik to perform any matter of sin, and this has even been publicized in published works. These matters are to be considered complete heresy in the fundamentals of our religion. We must uproot and remove this apikorsus from within us.
Doing so will fulfill the verse (Shmos 18:23), “and all this people also shall go to their place in peace.”
Rabbi Shriel Rosenberg. Rabbi Shmuel Eliezer Stern, Rabbi Yehuda Fisher, Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss, the head of the Eida Chareidis, Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, and Rabbi Chaim Meir Halevi Vozner, Rabbi Shevach Tzvi Rosenblatt, Rabbi Yehuda Silman, and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Lubin.
[This Dvar Torah is in memory of my much loved nephew Dov ben Eliahu who suddenly passed away last week at age 49. May his neshama make a fast and easy aliyah to Gan Eden]
We are told that when the L-rd desired to give the Torah to the Jewish people, instead of choosing a lofty and majestic mountain, He selected Sinai, a small, humble little mount barely more than a hill. His purpose in this symbolic act was to teach us that man must turn his back on overbearing pride and reject a false ego.
The Gerer Rebbe asked: If G-d intended to teach us that man must turn down false pride, why was the Torah not given in a valley?
The Rebbe answered: It is not enough, he said, to reject overbearing pride. Too much humility is also wrong. Man should- man must- possess some pride in his being; otherwise he is not a man.
I never cease to be amazed that we continue to be valleys. I never cease wondering at our choosing the way of the meek. One would imagine that after all the “help” we have failed to receive, we would remember the lesson of the mountain.
The fact is that we are living in sad times when we must- just for the moment- still the voice of Jacob and, for the sake of Jewish honor, of Jewish protection, don the hand of Esav.
Vandals attack a yeshiva- let that yeshiva attack the vandals. Should a gang bloody a Jew, let a Jewish group go looking for the gang. This is the way of pride- not evil pride, but the pride of nation, of kinship- the pride of the mountain.
There are those who will protest: This is not the Jewish way. And yet, since when has it been a mitzvah to be punished and beaten? Since when is it a Kiddush Hashem to be spat upon? It is not a Kiddush Hashem, it is quite THE OPPOSITE. It is a disgrace to the pride of our people, our G-d. More important, there is a rule in the hoodlum jungle: The more the victim backs away, the more the hoodlum moves forward.
So up from the valley and up to the Mount. Jewish rights are not cheap and Jewish defense is not wrong. This is the lesson of the Mount.
Bob goes solo to explain why the common practice of “offering a plea deal” is a horrible practice, which gives us little reason to trust that those convicted are actually guilty of the crimes to which they confess.
