הוא היה בהלויה שלי

כשהרב שך זכרונו, ה’בעל מחלוקת’ הידוע, נפטר מעולמו, הרב חיים גריינימן זצ”ל השתתף בהלויה.

שאלו אותו, והלא הרב שך רדף אתכם חנם, ומדוע זה גומל לו חסד של אמת, ומשלם טובה תחת רעה. הרב גריינימן השיב: נו, הוא היה בהלויה שלי…

הסיפור אמת – מידיעה. הרב גריינימן גם השיב עוד תשובות לאותה שאלה לאחרים ששאלו.

How to Pray for Peres

A LEADER AND A STATESMAN

12 Elul 5776

Some men achieve greatness in this life – as it is measured by the world. Some people are dazzled by this perceived “greatness”, the celebrity of such men, whether they be successful businessmen, statesmen, politicians, or anyone who commands headlines in the mass media. Every kind of grace is granted to such a person in situations where a lesser man would be held to a different standard.

One such man is the former Deputy Defense Minister, former Minister of Immigrant Absorption, former Minister of Transportation, former Information Minister, former Minister of Defense, former Prime Minister, former Minister of Finance, former Foreign Minister, former Minister of Regional Cooperation, former President of Israel, founder of the Peres Center for Peace: Shimon Peres.

Director General of the Defense Ministry during the Ringworm Children Affair and the Yemenite Children Affair, the Prime Minister of Israel who ordered the betrayal of Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli Foreign Minister who secretly (and illegally) negotiated with the PLO and signed the Oslo Accords, who brokered the transfer of Jerusalem to the Vatican, the Vice Premier of Israel who enabled the Expulsion of Jews from Gaza, Retired President of Israel who advocates the expulsion of Jews from Judea and Samaria, promoter of a World Religion with the Pope at its head: Shimon Peres.

Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, recipient of honorary knighthood, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George from Queen Elizabeth II in Buckingham Palace in London, who is suspected of having a hand in the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin as well as the false accusations against and unjust imprisonment of former President Moshe Katsav: Shimon Peres.

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From Tomer Devorah, here.

סוג של רבנים שיש בכל מקום

הרב נחמן מברסלב (חיי מוהר”ן סי’ תקל”ז):

אמר לענין המפרסמים של שקר, כי על הבעל דבר קשה מאד לטרח עם כל העולם להטעותם מדרך הישר, על-כן העמיד מפרסם אחד במקום פלוני ומפרסם אחד במקום פלוני. ואמר על מפרסם אחד שהוא עקר ראש אלף אנשים, שבודאי לא יקומו בתחית המתים.

  • Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, quoted in Chayei Moharan #537

Human Authority versus Godly Authority

A Prince is despised when he is seen to be fickle, frivolous, effeminate, pusillanimous, or irresolute, against which defects he ought therefore most carefully to guard, striving so to bear himself that greatness, courage, wisdom, and strength may appear in all his actions.

In short, for one man to hold power over another, he must pretend to be superhuman. This is why politicians pretend to never get ill or lack knowledge of any current affairs (aside from the Misesian economic information problem). They prop (read: drug) themselves up and answer questions with “our position is unchanged” (as did Tony Blair). This is why the ancient emperors and Pharaohs made themselves false deities.

But the old rule holds true: You can fool some of the people all the time or all the people some of the time, but not all the people all of the time. So You really need to be omnipotent to keep power, that is God.

Good news; He really is in power!