Comments on: JBS, Setting the Record Straight

By: Rabbi Raphael Bearmant

Rabbi Raphael Bearmant — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:40:36 +0000

Somebody sent me a e-mail that JB’s wife was a “BAALAS Tshuva” and this is a well known fact. Can anyone confirm this w/details?
TIA

By: Donald

Donald — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:55:36 +0000

This is the first time I’m reading your “Judaism” view. Its quite interesting to read. I like the line Reb Chaim 2 mistakes – 1. WWI and 2. Moshe Soloveichek. Will follow your view often.

By: Rabbi Raphael Bearmant

Rabbi Raphael Bearmant — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:36:52 +0000

The quote from Reb Aharon was related to me personally by the late Rabbi Yitzchak Waldman ZL, one of the most dedicated Talmidim R Aharon had. I heard it from Rabbi Waldman himself. The R’ Chaim quote is well known in Brisker circles, but I cannot supply an exact source.

By: Jeffrey Zuckerman

Jeffrey Zuckerman — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:31:06 +0000

With reference to the quotes from Reb Chaim and Rabbi Aharon Kotler, can Bearmant supply sources, or are these just things that every authentic Ben Torah knows?

By: reshaim meieretz yekareisu

reshaim meieretz yekareisu — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:04:35 +0000

Dover Emes, I couldn’t agree more. How could the rabbis at YU share the same title as Rabbi Bearmant? They seem like total opposites! Imagine having the chutzpa to, as Rabbi Bearmant so aptly says, undermine authentic Torah values and distort our gedolim, and call oneself “rabbi” to boot! As my rosh yeshiva says, when there’s a crisis one must close his book and take action, so yasher koach Dover Emes for leaving his sacred beis medrash to join the battle against this apikorsus! Im yirtzeh hashem we will stomp it out and restore achdus to klal yisroel.

By: Dover Emes

Dover Emes — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:05:40 +0000

I’ve read through many of your posts on YU and “the Rav,” and they have been truly enlightening. I think they are a must read, bigeder dah mah lihashiv liapikores. I mean, if I hadn’t read them, how would I know what crap (sorry for the language, but it’s mutar when talking about reshaim, right – as ploni almoni said on Septemeber 14) the other side is spewing. Here I am, cloistered in my Yeshiva, and I hear rumors about people trying to take down yiddishkeit by distorting it, but before reading what you wrote about those people at YU, I had no idea how true it was. And of course, one must spread information about them and publicly humiliate them, like the Gemara says – mecharfin es hachanifin.

By: mesorahmaven

mesorahmaven — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:59:02 +0000

Thank you for exposing an imposter in our midst. These shkotzim try to make us abandon our muchrach mesorah with their krum hashkafas.
With that in mind, do you think JBS’s books have a din of torah? To my regret I find that I possess one of his sifrei apikorsus. Can I throw it out? I certainly don’t want it in my house, chas veshalom one of my children should see it and be corrupted and I don’t want to place a michshol in front of anyone else by giving it to them. The best move is utterly destroying it, right?

By: Chaim

Chaim — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:52:27 +0000

Did you know that the treif hashkafos of the krum side of the holy Soloveitchik’s are being spread in Ramat Bet Shemesh by the son of the so-called Rabbi Aharon Soloveitchik?

By: Rabbi Raphael Bearmant

Rabbi Raphael Bearmant — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:00:20 +0000

If I DO go to Gehinnom, it could be for many reasons. One of them, however, will NOT be for spreading the truth about the great impostor: JBS

By: Rabbi Raphael Bearmant

Rabbi Raphael Bearmant — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:58:38 +0000

Reb Baruch Ber’s visiting YU is a Chidush to me. Any documentation of such needs to be examined before I can reply, but assuming you are correct I think you understand this was before JB’s time. Not that YU was Kosher then either, but it was far from what it evolved into in during JBS’ regime.
Regarding R’ Shimon Shkop, please see letter from R’ Yeruchem Levovitz ZAL the Mashigiach of MIR to R’ Shimon printed at the end of R’ Yeruchem’s sefer. R’ SHimon obviously regretted this.