Monday, September 8, 2025

Silly Things People Say

I heard a very popular Internet speaker/rabbi say that everyone who learns in Yeshiva and doesn't serve in the army doesn't count for a minyan b/c he is an Apikorus.

I really envy this person. I would NEVER have the self confidence to invent my own religion. 

Another very popular Internet speaker/rabbi LOVES to post videos with really provocative, click baiting titles. In a recent video he claimed that Chasidus is dead, Chasidic Rebbes don't say Chasidus, they just say things like don't use smartphones and wear the right type of glasses, that the vast majority of Chasidim know nothing of the Torah of Chasidus - they just know minhagim etc. etc. He says other nonsense/motzi sheim ra/lashon hara, often hate filled. Despite that - or probably because of that, he is so popular.  

Mussar Haskel: Rabbinic titles don't guarantee wisdom, Yiras Shomayim or anything else.

Proof positive - Some people even call me "rabbi". 

There you go.