As many of you know, there was an anti-draft rally in Manhattan yesterday sponsored by Satmar. Satmar tried very hard to get other groups to join, and because of that over the past week, there was much discussion about what R' Chaim Kanievsky's opinion was. Was he for or against the rally?
R' Elya Ber Wachtfogel, Rosh Yeshiva of South Fallsburg wrote in a letter on Thursday that R' Chaim Kanievsky was for the rally.
However, on Friday, R' Chaim's sons publicized a letter saying that he did not support the rally.
Even more interesting is that on Sunday at 3PM some people produced another letter supposedly from R' Chaim Kanievsky supporting the rally.
This letter turned out to be forged.
The bottom line is that it is impossible for the average person to know what is true and what is not.
There needs to be a better way for the Gedolim to get their message out to the people because the current system is just not working.
1 comment:
Heh. I said that five years ago.
http://wolfishmusings.blogspot.com/2008/02/gedolim-and-how-they-relate-to-common.html (see point #4).
The Wolf
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