Installing an Internal Yiraas Shamayim Filter

"It is impossible to filter out the entire world. Threats, more restrictions and fear-mongering will not elevate our avodas Hashem.” - Rav Moshe Weinberger

You know that awesome feeling a yeshiva boy has when he thinks up something new and original all on his own, a chiddush, or sometimes even a kasha (question), and then the Rebbi tells him he was michaven to a rabbi akiva eiger or maybe even a rishon and it makes him feel only better.


Why would a child be so excited that he is repeating the same thing as someone over one thousand years ago? Because, the boy is taking pride in the feeling of having had  that same insight that another great person had and moreover it proves to the boy that he grasps the sugya at hand, well enough to be bothered by the same question a great talmudic scholar was millenniums ago. It’s like discovering the world is round all on your own.
Listening to Rabbi Weinberger’s shiur made me feel like that boy.

A Kosher Alternative By: Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum Z"L

‎"If the only way we can sell our children on Torah is by forbidding everything else, then we are bankrupt" - Rabbi Shlomo Freifeld zt’’l

"In every generation we have the likes of Doeg and Achitofel who misled great people such as Shaul and Avshalom with falsehoods and lies that caused them to try to kill Dovid!" - Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum Z"L

Preface: I dont like when I'm judge by my father, I'm my own person and speak for myself, but I do need to correct a misconception that I keep hearing. People think that because my father, was a respectable Rabbi it was easy for him to stand up to the bullies or that no one tried to blackmail or censor him. There was always somebody saying he had a personal agenda. My father was even taken to Beis Din for exposing a money scam run by "frum yidden". I went with him to the beis din and it was a disaster trying to explain to the Rabonim what a pyramid scam is. My father many times had to force the charid press to remove ads that were charity scams, because they refused to do it. If you just give a look, after my father past away, most of these ads are right back in the newspapers.

The Asifa Scam

How 60,000 Orthodox Jews Were Conned by a few Manipulative Askanim, Businessmen, and the Chareidi Press.

Important related posts to read:
This post is a follow up to my 101 Questions on the Asifa
My Position on Responsible Blogging
The Ten BIG Lies About The Internet

Preface and background: My intention for writing publicly was to try and give over only positive ideas regarding yidishkeit, as most of my articles do. I had hoped to express the feelings of today's youth in a manner that can improve our education system. Yet, as time went by, and more and more things became apparent to me, I realized there is no possible way to advocate for change without bringing to attention the very things that are causing the damage in the first place. Unfortunately, this sometimes may mean exposing fraud in our own circles.

The Ten BIG Lies About The Internet

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it. - Rambam: Moreh Nevuchim 2:15)

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Winston Churchill

In one sentence we can sum up these 10 lies by a quote from a camper of mine “The Internet doesn't cause anyone to go "off the derech" except those who are looking to leave”

Of course there are many concerns one should have about the new lifestyle of the internet and those need to be addressed. The internet can be a very dangerous place for anyone, let alone a frum Jew. Whether the benefits outway the bad is irrelevant. There are many important issues that need to be addressed. But that is not this post.

This post is here to try and put an end to the lies. I have put together what I feel are the ten biggest lies often told. Some of these lies are caused by the spread of misinformation; often using outdated studies. Others are caused by quoting opinion pieces as evidence instead of actual studies. And even others are said by corrupt individuals that have personal agendas. The audience some of whom themselves don't use the internet all to often believe the lies.

I took a lot of my personal time to research and write up all this information and I hope to post it all within the coming few days.

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A Kidush Hashem! Seriously?

“The fathers were at the Asifa, the mothers went to the screenings and our kids stayed home logged on to the internet!” Anonymous Blogger

I may not be much of a Talmid Chochom but I can sense the difference between a Kidush Hashem and a Chilul Hashem and as much as the chareidi press tries to manipulate us and tell us the Aisifa that took place last week was a tremendous Kidush Hashem, it was anything but. Here's why.

I’m not referring to the ill-advised speeches or the waste of money involved or the 101 other questions one can ask.. I'm also not overly concerned with the terrible news coverage in the non-Jewish media, who you can argue don't like Jews; nor the secular Jewish media, who you may say hate all religious Jews. That there was a group of Jews holding signs outside screaming about the abuse within the orthodox community is sickening to me, but you can shove it off, claiming they are all "rabbi-haters and they had some kind of alternative motive". Instead I'm referring to the leitzonus and lack of respect for those sitting on the dais. How do you explain our own community ridiculing our own leaders?

BAN ARTSCROLL IPAD: The Newest Technological Evil!

Filed under - Exposing hypocrisy via sarcasm and hyperbole.

I’m shocked and surprised that we are allowing a new device called the iPad ArtScroll Shas to be sold to our frum olem. I know Artscroll invested about 5 million dollars into this app, but when it comes to the nishomos of Klal Yisroel money shouldn't be a part of the equation. Every iPad has Wi-Fi, and in the home I understand you can use J-net and Koshernet, but what happens when they take the device outside the house? All one needs to do is connect to any public Wi-Fi and rachmana litzlon the internet will grab our precious neshamos away!