In Defense of Rav Moshe
Secular Jew wrote an article recently ripping into one of the greatest Rabbis of the past 100 years for a decision he wrote about boys talking to girls. I have to take this apart piece by piece:
1) Not everyone follows everything every rabbis says, so stop acting like EVERYONE does
2) He says he will now call him “Rav Moshe FineControlFreak”. If you read the article you will notice he doesn’t do this because he says anything but because of what the man said. So because you disagree with him he is a mind controller? If he had said “there is no G-d you are crazy to believe in him” then he would be a sage? Very flawed logic. You want to disagree with what he said? Fine, but don’t claim he is a mind controller merely because he makes decisions WHICH HE IS AUTHORIZED TO DO FROM G-D.
3) he makes the assumption that the Torah is something that was given by G-d that “the majority of jews can follow with minimum difficulty”. I have never in all my life ever heard any Rabbi claim being Jewish is easy. Anyone who says it is…is lying. If it was easy why would G-d give us such a great reward? The reward is in the difficulty, the struggle if you will makes you worth to get the rewards, that’s the whole point!
4) Secular Jew then spits on Rav Moshe’s grave, or at least writes that he does. Are you kidding me? You disagree with him, so you spit on his grave? And I love the title “Rav Moshe Feinstein: Burn in Hell”, sorry to tell you man, he is following G-d’s word, what have you been doing your whole life?
Somehow I don’t think he will be the one burning.
The Power of the Rabbis (in 5 seconds or less)
It has long been a contention of unobservant Jews that the Rabbis don’t have any say over the way that we are to run out lives and that they are merely trying to keep control of the religion to themselves. The problem with this contention is COMPLETELY contrary to the Torah itself. Not the Talmud, not the mishna, THE TORAH ITSELF. The Torah states clearly that they have the power to interpret the torah for the people (much like the Supreme Court) and this has gone on unbroken from the setting up of the courts in the book of Shmot (Exodus) till today.
At one point people decided, “hey who cares what G-d said I KNOW BETTER”. When was the last time you heard ANYONE claim that the Supreme Court doesn’t have the power to interpret the Constitution? So we have complete faith in a court that doesn’t have to base their decision on anything but a paper written by a bunch of MEN 250 years ago, but people deciding how we should live based on a book written by THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH? ”Those people can’t do this!!!”
Just bothers me
FAQ
Who Are You???
Unlike some other bloggers I’m not doing this for my own ego, but rather to keep the public informed as to many misconceptions out there. To keep up with this, I am not going to say who I am so that its obvious that I’m not doing this for own purpose but rather for all of you.
What’s the purpose of this blog?
Some people out there like David Kelsey have decided that Aish, NCSY kiruv overall are horrible institutions. But it doesn’t stop there, they also seem to hate anyone who is more observant then they are (HOW DARE THEY?!?!?!). So they take every attempt to make up, make fun of, and disparage anyone who is a member of those groups.
So the purpose of this blog is to debunk, clear up and most importantly EDUCATE the public as the truth behind their posts. That is not to say that they aren’t right sometimes, or that i don’t agree with them sometimes (even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes) but there are MAJOR problems out there with some of the things that are said and someone needs to clear it up
Who made you right and them wrong?
No one. But just like they are entitled to their opinions so am I. Only i will back up what i have to say with FACTS not conjecture. And LOGIC not stupidity.
What do you have against David Kelsey/Kvetcher specifically?
Happens to be he is just the prime offender, but there are plenty of other people who have the same problems as him. Most of these people have some grudge against kiruv either because
a)they are bitter from some bad experience
b)they had someone they love get more observant and it pisses them off
c)they couldn’t deal with the fact that there is a G-d who tells them what to do, so they can no longer make the whole world about themselves
d) who knows?
At the end of the day someone who doesn’t have this preconceived bias needs to put to rest some of the TOTALLY WRONG stuff they have written.
Are you Done Yet?
Yeah thats about it. If you have any other questions you can always ask me yourself
WELCOME
Welcome to “Can’t Complain”!!! I figured it was about time someone wrote about the POSITIVES in this world, as well as debunking the statements make by certain bloggers that are just plain wrong, bigoted and self serving. I don’t know how often I will be posting, but I will try and post as often as possible so check back constantly to see whats going on.
