On the first night Ashkenazim begin to say the slichot (penitential) prayers that statrt being recited the week before Rosh Hashana, the #2 rabbi in the virulently anti-Zionist haredi umbrella organization Edah Hareidit, Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, spoke to haredi yeshiva students in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot about a list of things that upsets God, things that God expects haredim to fight to overcome. Can you guess what they are?
Above: Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch
Anti-Zionist Haredi Leader Lists “Evil Decrees” Haredim Must Fight To Please God
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
On the first night Ashkenazim begin to say the slichot (penitential) prayers that statrt being recited the week before Rosh Hashana, the #2 rabbi in the virulently anti-Zionist haredi umbrella organization Edah Hareidit, Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, spoke to haredi yeshiva students in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot about a list of things that upsets God, things that God expects haredim to fight to overcome.
Just before the yeshiva students began to recite the slichot, Sternbuch reportedly told the students his bucket list of “evil decrees” hanging over the Jewish people – “evil decrees” that upset God and that haredim must fight to overcome:
• Zionist Orthodox and Modern Orthodox (and even some haredi) conversions to Judaism that don’t follow Edah’s hyper-strict version of halakha (Jewish law).
• Public desecration of Shabbat by secular Jews who open stores and movie theaters on the holy day.
• The Internet.
• The IDF’s attempt to draft haredim.
Sternbuch went on to lament the lack of unity among haredim that he said weakens the haredi community and causes it to lack the strength necessary to properly fight those evil decrees.
Sternbuch told the students to be particularly careful to pray with proper intent and to answer “amen, yehay shemay rabba” with the proper intent and concentration at its proper time. He also told the students to distance themselves from idle talk and lashon hara because we must recognize we are being judged by God.