Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Avremel And Aviv



“Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.”
― Ronald Reagan

Joseph Stalin killed and starved MILLIONS!!!!!!!!!!

How could he do that?

Only one way - He didn't believe in a G-d who commanded him not to kill and b/c he didn't believe that he would suffer eternally for doing so. 

How did Marxist Pol Pot kill and torture millions? 

Same story. 

Not believing in G-d is DANGEROUS!!!!!!!!!! An atheist might not kill you be will only refrain from doing so b/c HE decided. If he decides otherwise - you are done. A believer doesn't have a choice. He HAS to be kind an compassionate b/c G-d commanded. [If he chooses not to do so it is not BECAUSE of his belief in G-d but DESPITE it]. 

In the immortal words of David Berlinski: 

“What Hitler did not believe and what Stalin did not believe and what Mao did not believe and what the SS did not believe and what the Gestapo did not believe and what the NKVD did not believe and what the commissars, functionaries, swaggering executioners, Nazi doctors, Communist Party theoreticians, intellectuals, Brown Shirts, Black Shirts, gauleiters, and a thousand party hacks did not believe was that God was watching what they were doing. And as far as we can tell, very few of those carrying out the horrors of the twentieth century worried overmuch that God was watching what they were doing either. That is, after all, the meaning of a secular society.”

With that in mind - There was a big news story that Avraham Fried performed with the Israeli iconic singer Aviv Geffen. "WOW!!!!" People are gushing, "WHAT ACHDUS!!!!".

Aviv Geffen is an open atheist. He believes that we are all a bunch of overdeveloped apes who are here by complete accident, רח"ל. He is kofer not in ONE of the 13 ikkarim of the Rambam but a clean sweep - he denies all 13. He thinks that all the Jews who were killed for keeping the Torah died for naught. It is all fairytales in his mind רח"ל. He cannot do a mitzva b/c when someone doesn't believe in Hashem, his mitzvos don't count [we have spoken and written abt. this elsewhere]. So all he has is aveiros. Plenty of them. His status is a מומר לכל התורה הכולה. The lowest of the low. Worse, in some ways, than a Gentile. [Some would argue that he is a תינוק שנשבה. But remember, in Chazal a תינוק שנשבה is one who was captured and raised by Gentiles and knows nothing of Yiddishkeit. Anybody in the free world today can easily access all the information he wants about Torah and nobody is unaware that there are religious Torah Jews in the world.]   

So how can he be given the stage and cheered for? Pirkei Avos says to stay away from such people. In the olden days, such people were liable to capital punishment [NOT ANYMORE!!].  

Let's learn a little Shaarei Teshuva: 

  וזה דבר כת החנפים. ענין הכת הזאת נחלק לתשעה חלקים - החלק הא' - החנף אשר הכיר או ראה או ידע כי יש עול בכף חברו וכי החזיק בתרמית. או כי חטא איש לאיש בלשון הרע או באונאת דברים. ויחליק לו לשון הרע [לאמר] לא פעלת און. המעט ממנו עון הנמנע מן התוכחה. שנאמר - (ויקרא י״ט:י״ז) הוכח תוכיח את עמיתך ולא תשא עליו חטא. ויוסף לחטוא על אמרו לא חטאת. כענין שנאמר (ירמיהו כ״ג:י״ד) וחזקו ידי מרעים. והנה זה ביד החנף האויל עון פלילי. כי לא יקנא לאמת. אבל יעזור אחרי השקר. ויאמר לרע טוב. וישים לחשך אור. גם נתן מכשול לפני החוטא משני פנים. האחד. כי אינו נחם על רעתו. והשני. כי ישנה באולתו ביום מחר. כי הלל רשע החנף אותו על תאות נפשו. מלבד כי ישא עונש על הנזק אשר הזיק לאשר אשם לו החוטא על צדקו מי אשר חטא לו. מלבד כי יענש על דבר שקר. שנאמר (תהילים ה׳:ז׳) תאבד דוברי כזב. ונאמר (משלי י״ז:ט״ו) מצדיק רשע ומרשיע צדיק תועבת ה' גם שניהם. כל שכן אם העול אשר בכף רשע חבירו גלוי לרבים. כי באמרו אליו החנף לפני בני אדם זך אתה מבלי פשע. חילל וביזה דת ודין: 

And this is the thing about the group of flatterers - the content of this group is divided into nine sections: