Anyone who’s found themselves struggling with “the big questions” in their lifetime has listened to Avigdor Miller talk about the wondrousness of the apple and the orange and how you can see Hashem just by looking at them, has heard Noach Weinberg tell the story of the bike rider who was riding along when Hashem suddenly came out of nowhere and pushed him off a cliff and then flew down the cliff after the falling bicyclist to save him from getting hurt. You would have heard Amnon Yitzchak and Uri Zohar tell you how you can see Hashem in the fact they, such successful people in the secular world, became frum! Mah rabu masecha hashem!
Let’s have a vote on which of the following rabbis delivers the best argument for seeing Hashem in the world:
Rabbi Scott from A Serious Man telling Larry Gopnick that his wife is having an affair because he needs a better perspective on Hashem. And the parking lot, look at that wondrous parking lot.
Rabbi Brog from Cleveland saying that Eli Mandel joined his brother Ari, the leader of the OTD movement (which, BTW, recruits people to go off the derech) because he didn’t have a relationship with Hashem. I especially love the line “you are at risk m’oid”
And finally one of the internet’s favorite rabbis, Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi
This is by no means a comprehensive list. You could do your bit to bring people closer to Hashem by sharing your favorite kiruv routine in the comments below.
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“Hashem of pot” was also funny. The rabbi doesn’t seem to know the word “god”, so he uses “hashem” as a generic.
Brog, ha! This is the loser who advised my wife to divorce me, and then had one of his sheep call me and ask me whether I’d do “the rebbi’s” taxes for him, like I had done in previous years for free.
What a motherfucker!
Here’s Rabbi Fink’s vote.
From twitter https://twitter.com/efink/status/534015244364832768/photo/1
From here: https://twitter.com/efink/status/534015244364832768/photo/1
“the hascholla of where it begins”
classic
Makes you wanna go back to yeshiva, doesn’t it?
I vote for Rabbi Scott.
He doesn’t know what he’s saying but he powers through anyways. Actually on second thought they’re all doing that. But still – the parking lot, the parking lot! Isn’t it inspiring?
I vote for Mizrahi, because he takes the time to address Dana Cohen in his shiurim.
I don’t know why you guys think you’re such big chachomim that you can go online and fun of talmidei chachomim you think hashems not looking? You think your not going to burn in gehenim for this leitzanus? You think that just because you have fake names hashem doesn’t know who you are? Yom kippur can’t be mechaper on all the michsholos your putting in front of innocent yidden. Take this down.
wow lol, i think this fuckers serious. you my friend are a special beryeh, dont you just wish your invisible friend actually existed so he (cause yahweh’s a he, of course) could take this shit down, shame…
it’s a free country, SG. I know that makes you uncomfortable. ISIS is taking applicants for all kinds of positions. That may be more up your alley.
Stay strong when you’re cutting off the heretic’s head. Don’t wobble. Say “Allah wants me to do this” over and over until head and body are thoroughly detached.
In shallah, you will achieve greatness.
BS”D
Discussion with Moishela (with his family)
A Handicapped child
3 Cheshvan 5775 (Oct 26, ’14)
“The Noose Is Getting Tighter”
The world has absolutely gone mad, absolutely mad. Murder, accidents, weather related deaths, riots, plagues, Mamash a very scary world. Every day something new. Every day something more bloody. Every day more and more deaths. Every day we become more and more frightened.
The noose is getting tighter and tighter around us, and the worst part about it is that no one seems to feel it except a very few. Very few people feel it at all. Either they don’t want to feel it so they ignore it, or they are really in some very strong daze or under some kind of drug that keeps them from seeing what is happening. It doesn’t even have to be medication, although I would imagine that in the western world at least 50% of the people are on some kind of psychiatric medication. They drug themselves on Gashmius on materialism so they won’t know, so they won’t feel, so they won’t be afraid. What is happening is frightening because the world is beginning to feel the effects of being ruled by a group of absolute maniacs, of people that are evil to their bone. They are planning crazy things and thinking they can get away with it, thinking that they can turn the world into their private domain, that they can take the Jewish people and turn them into Goyim. Their greatest goal that they want to achieve is they want to destroy, to kill nine-tenths of the world population. What can I tell you? We Yidden are being targeted. Our faith is being targeted, and we must, must come back to Hashem in order to stop it.
I have dreams, I have such frightening dreams every night. I see cities being blown up. I see all kinds of terrible things happening. I see wild men killing and plundering. I see planes shooting and bombing. I see people dying of thirst and hunger, and I cry and I cry. I am so nervous and so afraid, not for myself – for my family and for Am Yisroel, how terrible, how terrible. I’m not even giving you the details of what I see but it’s very very frightening! I don’t know how to pass on to my fellow Jews through what I am writing, the difficult things we still have to face.
How can I beg? How can I plead with Am Yisroel to open their eyes, to get rid of the Gashmius, to stop looking like street people, to start looking again like Jews, to start acting again like Jews? I’m talking to the Frum. What else can I say to you? What else can I do? If you read over everything I’ve said to this point, you should already be doing Teshuva in the strongest way, but I see in the streets that people are buying and buying things that are not necessary. I see that they are making fancy parties and fancy Chasunas and things that are not necessary. I see and I feel that children are growing up to love, to lust after Gashmius. I see how we are eating like gluttons, but have become very very weak in our Mitzvos and it makes me cry. Now we are facing the most horribly difficult time in history and we’re messing around with nonsense.
What can I say? What can I do? I’m only a young person with an old head and an old heart, but I can tell you this: you better straighten up fast. You better get your act together because the suffering is going to be unbelievable if not, and if you take yourself in hand then you can save yourself so much suffering, so much misery. Do you understand? People, do you understand? You can save yourselves so much suffering, but if not it will be unimaginable suffering. I’m begging you. I’m begging you. Put your trust in Hashem not in people, not in science, not in chief rabbis, or in heads of state. Put your trust only in Hashem, only in Hashem, only in Hashem. We have to be like the Yidden that left Mitzrayim and spent forty years in the desert. We have to be like that. We have to have that kind of trust of Hashem without question, no matter what happens, no questions asked. We must know in our hearts and our souls that it’s all for our good, it’s to help us go higher, to help us reach the next stage of Creation which is Olam Habah of Moshiach Tzidkainu, and our journey upwards, to total salvation, to completely become one with Hashem. That’s what I have to say.
I’m afraid that my words have become useless because people have become used to listening to them, even though they are harsh and they are strong and people see around them terrible things happening, but they are getting used to it. They want their Gashmius more than they want to listen. So I will say a few more sentences to make sure you understand. Please, please do Teshuva. Change your way of life. Become Tzniusdik, the men and the women. Trust Hashem in everything. Don’t go looking outside of your Daled Amos for the Yeshua. The Yeshua is only with Hashem, only with Hashem. In the near future we are going to witness very bloody happenings, very frightening and very bloody. Here in Eretz Yisroel there will be more riots and more trouble, but in Chutz La’aretz it will be really bad, really bad.
Between now and Chanukah we are going to have a rush of incidents all over the world, that will put great fear into most of the population of the world. You won’t know where to look first, up, down, left, right. Everywhere there will be trouble big big trouble. Hashem is trying to show us that the inevitable must be and that means that we are coming very close to the Geula Sheleima, and the hardest part of this birth is now and therefore you can either have an easy birth or a very difficult one. It’s your choice.
Thank you for sharing Rabbi Brog. I’ve never heard a litvak talk about a relationship with God. I’m not quite sure yet how to have God as real in my life, but I know he is real and I know it’s possible. I’m no longer confused as to why my observance has slipped.
If you like Rabbi Brog (shlita) then you should (lhbclc) get into Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZYA, who is, in my personal opinion, the most important and influential contemporary Rabbi. <|:<)
Rabbi Brog is based. Fuck all the haters.