Only Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach Is Left To Speak For God, Haredi Rabbi Says

"…All of Yiddishkeit depends on [the survival of HaPeles]! It is a clear and simple thing, and whoever does not understand this is just mindless! [Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach] speaks in the name of God through this newspaper! He is the only one who speaks on behalf of the Almighty! The only one!"

Above: Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach

Originally published at 11:23 pm CDT 8-28-2014

Only Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach Is Left To Speak For God, Haredi Rabbi Says
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

Internal recordings made of a meeting held by members of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach’s haredi rebel faction’s HaPeles newspaper called in order to try to save it from bankruptcy continue to be exposed.

Behadrei Haredim exposed the first recordings, made at an urgent public meeting of faction supporters, in which Auerbach’s close associate Rabbi Tzinterboim told followers in Auerbach’s name that they were mandated to forgo pledges made to yeshivas and other charities and give the money to HaPeles instead.

Now Behadrei Haredim has released more recordings of Tzinterboim made at that meeting in which he recounts the newspaper’s founding two years ago after its editor and other faction members were forced out of the mainstream nopn-hasidic haredi faction’s newspaper, Yated Ne’eman, and replaced with loyalists of Rabbi Aharon Leib Steinman, who now heads the faction.

Auerbach was then fighting Steinman for supreme haredi leadership, and Auerbach’s rebel faction (often called the Jerusalem faction) lost. Losing the battle over control of Yated Ne’eman, the largest haredi daily newspaper in Israel, was the final nail in the coffin of Auerbach’s leadership bid.

Most interesting from those recordings is Auerbach’s alleged claim that the loss of Yated Ne’eman was destroying the foundation of authentic Judaism in the world.

“…Then Rabbi Shmuel shouted…’What will be here [in this world] after such a terrible thing!?,’” Tzinterboim said. “[Auerbach] said, ‘say psalms constantly!…This whole world is being destroyed! The very tenets of authentic Judaism!’ I remember that Rabbi Shmuel said that, ‘[this paper is] saving Jewish lives and authentic Judaism!’”

Tzinterboim went on to say that two years later, everyone who needs to be saved hasn’t been, and HaPeles has no advertising to support it. Therefore, “…everyone must help [by giving] what they are being asked [to give]. Now people realize what it means that they are being asked to help out in this newspaper controversy.…the newspaper has virtually no income, every month there is less money, I do not know the exact amount [we’re losing every month] but it is hundreds of thousands of dollars.…All of Yiddishkeit depends on [the survival of HaPeles]! It is a clear and simple thing, and whoever does not understand this is just mindless! [Auerbach] speaks in the name of God through this newspaper! He is the only one who speaks on behalf of the Almighty! The only one!,” Tzinterboim insisted.

He went on to say that a leading haredi rabbi, Rabbi Karlenstein, the rosh yeshiva of the Grodno yeshiva and a supporter of Auerbach’s, is ill and disabled and cannot speak, so his voice has been silenced. God should heal him, Tzinterboim said.  He also mentioned another top haredi rabbi who supported Auerbach, Moshe Mordechai Sholzinger, who passed away from a similar illness.

What happened to both of them is the work of the Satan! Tzinterboim insisted, implying that if HaPeles were to be forced to close, Satan would be victorious and the only authentic representative of God's voice, Auerbach, would be silenced in that way.

The Recordings.

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Haredi Rebel Leader Rules That Haredim Must Donate To Failing Faction Newspaper Rather Than To The Faction’s Yeshivas Or Other Charities.

Comments

[skepticfrum]

Isn't that Heresy?

[David]

+++What happened to both of them is the work of the Satan!+++

Oops. Wrong religion. In normative Judaism Satan is a somewhat different concept to the Christian Satan and doesn't do things like that.

[Barry 1]

What is wrong with these people. They are the ones making a mockery of Yiddishkeit.

[MarkfromShortHills]

As HaPeles continues to lose money, I feel the Judaism leaking out of me. Getting a Catholic twinge in my left leg ....

[shin]

They should start a blog, that's much cheaper than running a paper

[Barry 1]

MarkfromShortHills: There's an old saying, "don't judge Judaism from Jews." People are people, fools are fools. We are not spared of our share of them.

At least, our religion isn't man made nonsense. They all need to justify themselves through Judaism, we don't need any of them to justify ourselves.

[R Nash]

Say not he is the only one for there is I.

[RWisler]

His father Shlomo Zalman was a very reasonable man. Unfortunately, the old man must have bred with his first cousin or sister or something (which is normative behavior in hareidi circles) and produced this in-bred ignorant genetically-defective nut "Shmuel".

[Sarek]

Conversation in a mental institution:

Inmate 1: I alone speak for God.
Inmate 2: Who told you that?
Inmate 1: God himself did
Inmate 3: I did not!

[Alter Kocker]

Oh yes, the deity must speak through the lips of an Alzheimer's ridden old fart. Only the orthodox would be so developmentally challenged to believe that brand of horse shit.

[Alter Kocker]

PS Mr Wisler-look carefully; his father must have had sex with a goat, and he was the result.

[Allan]

@Barry 1 “at least, our religion isn't man made nonsense.”

You are kidding, right? A six day creation? Noah’s ark? Tower of Babel? Talking snakes and donkeys? A guy who “stops the sun” for several hours and nobody else on earth notices? The Torah stories are the very definition of “man made nonsense” – much of it “borrowed” from Babylonian mythology. Are there any non-religious schools and universities out there actually teaching these legends as actual history? Of course not. The faculties of any real educational institution would erupt in laughter at the very suggestion.

[Barry 1]

Allan, not that we need it, but there have been numerous cases of archeological evidence that shows the Torah stories aren't myths. Since you are an atheist, you wouldn't believe anything anyway.

[skepticfrum]

@ Allan, when somoen is high on amanita muscaria, everything is possible :D

[SkepticalYid]

Posted by: Barry 1 | August 30, 2014 at 01:00 PM

Which Torah stories in particular are verified by archeological data?