At Mishpacha we have always followed a policy of avoiding taking sides in issues of
communal friction. So why did I feel it important to share details of the current machlokes plaguing Israeli society with my largely American readership? The answer lies in a true understanding of kvod haTorah and the benefits — and limits — of tolerance
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My dear readers I agree with you identify with you and envy you. |
I address these remarks to those of you who criticized me (although many others blessed me) for my outcry against the violent physical attack on Maran HaGaon Rav Aharon Yehuda Leib Steinman shlita an incident that crossed every red line the culmination of the ugly and unnecessary machlokes that is wreaking destruction on the litvishe community in Eretz Yisrael.
You were right when you wrote “Don’t involve us in the machlokesim you’re having over there in Eretz Yisrael. Your problems have nothing to do with us. Here in America there is unity among all stripes of chareidi Jews. We can tolerate difference we can live and let live.”
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