I would like to share with the readers an anecdote which I, myself was a witness to.
About 25 years ago I was waiting to get in to the Holy Steipler Gaon. In front of me were two middle aged men who were also waiting in order to request a blessing for a sick relative. They were both wearing Yamulkahs which easily identified them as Mizrachi.After they entered and the door closed I (and everyone else) heard the Steipler literally screech at an ear piercing volume “Nothing, Nothing can help you!”. I was scared out of my wits! Now everyone who knew this great Gaon knows that he gave away his entire life to help Jews in every type of situation. He was a example of true torah altruism. Yet he thought it necessary to teach these people a strong lesson.
[Update for Clarification: In general (yes, there were some exceptions) the Holy Steipler refused to give a blessing to non-authentic Jews. This is a well known fact. He used to ask people “What is this week’s parsha?” and check their Tzitzis as well. In our case this didn’t happen. You must remember that the Steipler was almost totally deaf and everyone had to communicate with him via written notes. In order to say that he was upset at these people because of something they wrote or asked for would require at least a few minutes for him to read what they had written. As soon as they walked in (approx 4 seconds) the scream could be heard around the block. By the way my father in law heard from the Steipler’s mouth that Kook was simply a “Meshuganer”. Mark it down in the protocol!
This incident came to my mind today. Thank Hashem I have been receiving a lot of attention from a lot of blogs on the net. Most of it, as expected, has been negative. They have tried to disgrace me and what I have written with name calling and cheep rhetoric. Not only that, but if you read what they have written you will see that they openly admit to have attempted to ruin my Google rating with shady schemes.
All I can say to these poor,lost souls is keep up the good work. The harder you try to battle Authentic Jewish Ideology the greater we will prevail. And with Hashem’s help we WILL prevail.
Nothing, absolutely nothing can help you.
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It’s true. HKB”H will thwart those who battle the TRUTH.
the exact wording was:
לא יעזור שום דבר! לא יעזור שום דבר!
He yelled it twice and I remember it like yesterday.