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i said over this torah to people this shabos and they thought that it wasout of this world.
i am no longer on this website because nobody but me ever makes any contributions to this website any more. i am now regularly making comments on the failed messiah website. i made some comments today november 16, 09, about why we should listen to...
tonight will be yhe 15th yohrtzeit of reb shlomo zatzal
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- How much were you at the House of Love and Prayer?
- Lived There
- What year(s) were you at the House?
- a:4:{i:0;s:4:"1968";i:1;s:4:"1969";i:2;s:4:"1970";i:3;s:4:"1971";}
- How did you meet Shlomo?
- at the greenhouse at lombard and hyde on russian hill on a friday night, shabos parshas parah 5728, a few months before the house of love and prayer opened 40 years ago. a friend of mine told me that shlomo would be there for shabos and that other friends of mine would also be there. i arrive at the greenhouse about an hour after sunset that friday night after having worked on my job as a bicycle messenger until 6 and then stopping for a treife hamburger at a fast food place on market street. i got off the cable car at lombard and hyde and was welcomed with hugs and kisses by guitar playing hippies at the entrance to the greenhouse. inside the greenhouse everybody was singing and dancing the whole world is waiting to sing the song of shabos and then a few minutes later shlomo arrived and the singing and dancing became much more leibedig. shlomo proceded to sing many mores verses to this nigun, most of which he was making up spontaniously as he was singing this nigun to the point that he was even saying a drosha to this nigun when he sang "so why dont we sing the song of shabos? then the dancing got wild and lasted for hours until we were ready to hear shlomo daven kabolas shabos, singing the whole kabolas shabos to this nigun. after we finished maariv several hours later, we sang and danced to am yisroel chai for a long time and then at about one a.m. shlomo made kidush and i rushed to leave to catch the last cable car to go home for the night.
for the first time in my life i felt that i was breaking shabos because for the first time in my life i felt what i was breaking. for the first time in my life i had felt shabos.
how can we possibly tell a jew who doesnt keep shabos that he is sinning by breaking shabos when he doesnt even realize what shabos is? how can a jew possibly realize what shabos is if he has never felt shabos?
shlomo taught us that shabos is a psychedelic trip, the best psychedelic trip in the whole world, beter than marijuana and even better than lsd and that we dont need any of those unfortunately illegal drugs because we have a better drug than that. that drug is shabos, to SING the song of shabos!!!!!!!!!
before i met shlomo i was an 18 year old american reform jew who was not satisfied with reform judaism and was attending draft dodgers meetings where they were encouraging me to become a quaker and a pacifist conscientious objector.
shlomo saved me from becoming a quaker and giving up judaism. shlomo showed me that there is something special and something spiritual about judaismYIDISHKEIT. shlomo saved me from taking lsd by giving me a better trip than i could possibly ever get from lsd. thanks to shlomo i never became a quaker and i never took lsd. thanks to shlomo i never joined any non-jewish religions.
that shabos morning i took a steetcar and a cable car to get back to shlomo and i didnt like leaving before shabos was over, but i had allready made a commitment to be someplace else at 7:30pm.
the next time shlomo came to town the house of love and prayer was allready open and i went there friday afternoon with my sleeping bag to stay there the whole shabos because i allready knew that shabos is a psychedelic trip and that if you interrupt a psychedelic trip to do something mundane you end up with a bad trip.
i hereby give a message to all jews who drive home from shul friday night.you are doing something mundane in the middle of a psychedelic trip and that is why shabos is a bad trip for you and that is why you dont want to keep shabos.
a year later when i didnt want to eat treif any more and i wanted to spend all night learning torah with shlomo and didnt want to get up to go to college in the morning and started wearing tzitzis and tefilin my parents came to the house of love and prayer to make trouble for shlomo and not let shlomo daven or teach until he would send me home to my parent's house.
my mother tried to teach shlomo her theology that g-d didnt give the torah to moses on mount sinai and that the torah is only the philosophy of whoever wrote it. shlomo was swaying from side to side while my mother tried teaching her theology to shlomo. finally shlomo figured out what to tell my mother and told my mother "dont teach me theology. go home and cook your borsht.".
my mother would not let shlomo daven mincha or start that night's teach-in until shlomo would get me to leave with my parents to my parents house. finally when it was getting late for mincha shlomo made a deal with my parents that i would go with my parents to my parents house that thursday night and that shlomo would have me for shabos. at about 8:45 pm while i was taking off my brand new tefilin that i had bought that day, shlomo took me to his room upstairs to have yechidus with me. shlomo told me that if i would have joined another religion my parents would be very happy that i am returning to judaism even if my new judaism is orthodox instead of reform, but since i never joined another religion, my parents are very upset that i am becoming religious.shlomo told me about the deal he had made with my mother that i would go to the my parents house for the night and that they would let me go to the house of love and prayer for shabos. i preceeded to ask shlomo what yeshiva i should go to and shlomo preceeded to discuss with me the pros and cons of various different yeshivas.
i left with my parents while the torah was being taken out to have krias hatorah of shacharis before mincha as shlomo was preparing to daven a very late chasidishe mincha. at my parents house that night i ate food straight from the can with a plastic spoon.
friday morning i woke up and spent 6 hours davening shacharis wearing my new tefilin. my parents didnt want me to go to the house of love and prayer for shabos but i insisted on going and i went taking luggage with me. that shabos was the first shabos that i didnt carry anything, not even money in my pocket.
saturday night at 11:45pm my parents arrived to try to take me to their house while shlomo was in the middle of saying shalosh seudos torah on sefer chovos halevavos. shlomo was taking about how to love g-d is the most important mitzva of the torah when all of a sudden my parents walk in. shlomo immediately stops teaching chovas halevavos and starts to make havdala. after havdala i go to get my luggage and proceed to get in my parents car to go to their house for the night. as my father starts driving home my mother tells me that she will never let me go back to the house of love and prayer. i immediately become such an unruly child that my mother cant handle me and tells my father to drive me back to the house of love and prayer.
i lived at the house of love and prayer for the next 6 and a half weeks until i left for eretz yisroel. during this period of time i went several times to visit my mother's parents who lived at 349 7th ave which was only a few blocks from the house of love and prayer. i tried to get my grandfather to meet shlomo, but instead of telling my grandfather that shlomo was a real chasidic rebbe, i talked loshon hora about shlomo and because of the loshon hora that i talked about shlomo my grandfather didnt want to meet shlomo. my grandfather proceeded to give me musar about the inyan that shlomo was mekil about and i was mekabel my grandfather's musar.
it is very unfortunate that my grandfather never met shlomo as my grandfather by meeting shlomo would have been better able to connect to his past as a chasidic rabbinical student in cracow, bobov, and jelin, poland and a chasidic rabbi in proshevitz, poland. my grandfather, after having been rabbi of proshevitz, poland for a few months in 1922 realized that he would never make a living from being a rabbi in europe and accepted an offer to be the rabbi of a shul in chicago. as a rabbi in chicago, he realized that he would never make enough money from his salary for being a rabbi to pay for his wife and children to come to america, so he took a job as an auto body and fender repairman so he could have parnosa. when his employer told him that if he doesnt work on shabos he shouldnt even bother to come to work on monday he did what every member of his supposedly orthodox synagouge did and with much sadness, depression and crying worked on shabos. he felt so guilty about working on shabos that he was ashamed to show his face in any synagogue in chicago until he moved to california many years later. my grandfather was very similar to aryae coopersmith in that he felt that keeping shabos in america was an unsustainable lifestyle and that he would need to lead a secular life in order to make a living. after my grandfather brought his family to america he left chicago to go to california because his wife's (my grandmother's)persistance in remaining an orthodox jew made him feel very guilty that he wasnt doing what his neshama wanted him to do. my grandfather got a phd degree in eye relaxation therapy, wrote a book on how to relax, and was an eye relaxation therapist for many years teaching people how to relax their eyes and see without glasses, first in the basement of his house and then in the front bedroom of his house. as he got older and more forgetfull he retired from being an eye relaxation therapist and he started writing his autobiography which i would like to read except that nobody bothered to save it when my grandparent's house was cleaned and sold. he also started putting on his tefilin and davening and recording his davening and listening to the recordings of his davening while sleeping. but he never let anybody know how much of a baal teshuva he was and didnt want people to think he had re-embraced the orthodox judaism of his youth. when i tried to get my grandfather to meet shlomo, i had no idea how orthodox my grandfather was and i told my grandfather about shlomo being makil on a certain inyan, thinking that that would get my grandfather to want to meet shlomo. at that time my grandfather revealed to me something that he was scared and ashamed to reveal to anyone else, that he was a strictly orthodox jew and had been rabbi of proshevitz before he came to america. because i talked loshon hara on shlomo, my grandfather didnt want to meet shlomo. it would have been very good for my grandfather to meet shlomo. my grandfather needed chizuk from shlomo to help him reveal to the world that he was really a real chasidic rabbi, something that he revealed only to me. because i said loshon hara about shlomo to my grandfather, my grandfather lost the opportunity to have a rebbe in his old age and the world never found out about my grandfather.
this teaches us that we have to be extremely carefull to avoid talking or even listening to loshon hara.
- What is your Jewish and/or spiritual practice today?
- very hasidic. i go to many hasidic rebbes who might or might not want their names mentioned on amalek's internet. some of the rebbes that i go to are very much against amalek's internet and are so holy and so innoscent that they know so little about the internet that they dont even know that the internet is amalek's tool for corrupting the jews. i showed a picture of my mother's father to one of these holy tzadikim and he told me that my grandfather was the prushevitzer rebbe and that i should try to follow in his footsteps and be proshevitzer rebbe.
- Where do you live now?
- monsey, ny
- Please tell us a little about your life today.
- i am married to a very hasidic sefardic israeli woman who is descended from the ben-ish-hai.
i am not happy that i had to become the av bais din of golden gate and sit in judgement of a fellow jew and excomunicate him, but he turned me into the government for giving tzedaka, accusing me of being grossly incapable of managing my money and incapable of resisting fraud or undue influence. he threatened to sue the bais din of igud harabonim if they would send him another hasmana or write a letter of excommunication against him, so one of the rabbis on the bais din told me to write the letter of excommunication against him.
now i am stuck having to live off the income from my inheritance and even though i am guaranteed to die a multimillionaire i have no money to pay off my over $80,000.00 in credit card debt.
i am looking for somebody to lend me about $80,000.00 with a heter iska, rabbinical special permission to charge interest when loaning money to another jew
whoever loans me money is guaranteed to get paid back when i die because i am guaranteed to die a multi-millionaire. i am literally worth more dead than alive. maybe somebody knows somebody who doesn't want to invest all of his money in the stock market or in real estate but would like to recieve more interest than from putting one's money in the bank, so that he knows that something will be left for his children. i want to pay less interest than i am paying on my credit cards.
unfortunately i am doomed to die a multi-millionaire and will never be able to have the same gan-eden that shlomo has for having died penniless.
- What would you like to get from this social network?
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- If you answered "Other," above:
- feel shabos even stronger
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why i am no longer on this website
i am no longer on this website because nobody but me ever makes any contributions to this website any more. i am now regularly making comments on the failed messiah website. i made some comments today november 16, 09, about why we should listen to the music of reb shlomo zatzal,in the arcticle about a haredi music star leaves orthodoxy.
i think people should go to the failed messiah website to read this.
i think people should go to the failed messiah website to read this.
Posted on November 16, 2009 at 11:50am —
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Posted on September 30, 2009 at 11:02pm —
a history of israeli medical malpractice
when i was in the israeli army almost 40 years ago they put me in a mental hospital and violently knocked me down on a bed and gave me tranquilizer shots in my behind that caused me to become paralized. i am still suffering from the side effects of these tranquilizers which i still dont know the name of. a scientologist told me many years ago that the only way i will ever get these tranquilizers out of my system is if i spend millions of hours in saunas sweating away the poisons that are stored… Continue
Posted on September 22, 2009 at 2:53pm — 1 Comment
was reb shlomo zatzal a zionist
reb shlomo zatzal refered to israeli soldiers who got killed as having gave their lives for the holy land, not as having given their lives for the jewish state as the zionists talk. from this we learn that reb shlomo zatzal was a secret anti-zionist who didnt believe in zionism but also didnt want to alienate the zionists by saying anything outwardly anti-zionist as was the practice of the lubavitcher rebbe.
Posted on September 22, 2009 at 1:16pm —
where is everybody???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
i have recently added a few very controvercial blog posts to this website which i expect most people to disagree with and nobody is adding the negative comments that i expect to get for what i have said. i have tried to put my story on other haredi websites that are more well read, but 2 haredi websites have allready refused to put my comments on their websites even in a much more toned down form. so i am sick and tired of typing my radical haredi comments on other websites only to lose them bec… Continue
Posted on September 6, 2009 at 12:49am —
Comment Wall (20 comments)
- At 8:20am on August 13, 2009,
Joseph Holman said… - Shalom, Reuven. You have a fantastic memory! Actually I never joined Chabad but I was very interested in them at the time you knew me. My dear mother obm passed away in 2007 and I miss her terribly. Do you remember Jack (Yochanan) Stott? Whatever happened to him?
- At 11:02pm on May 25, 2009,
chaym orange said…
- the 2nd line should have read Excellent in savour bringing out the flavor
- At 3:57pm on May 25, 2009,
chaym orange said…
- from Chaym,an acrostic song using your name:
Returning always to HaShem others find the Friend
Excellent in savour bringing out he flavor
Understanding HaShem's ways upon Torah you do gaze
Voice of HaShem is your sound,since Shlomo lit the lamp
Entered in to the Light,live there day and night
Nurtured and nurturing neighbors with the substance that Holy Beggar's seek
Shema...echad in your heart beat always very sweet
Ambassador of HaShem, amalek's neck under your foot,Nigguns of Chen to sing,nachas to HaShem bring
Bearing HaShem's love for yiddele in ha aretz and in the galut,sing songs,don't just toot. more shall be given to you as you start your song like Shlomo others shall sing along
Emptied of life's drek thru meditating upon Tanakh,HaShem seen thru your trek, your spark that was lit is strong and courageous,and without doubt,we hear its shout! keep living!
Listening?
- At 7:56am on May 25, 2009,
Aryae Coopersmith said… - Reuven,
Sorry your computer crashed when you were watching the YouTube of Shlomo on this site. It works fine on my computer. Maybe there's something about the way your computer is set up. I hope all goes well with your computer and the House Online from here. Good Yom Tov!
Aryae
- At 9:47am on July 4, 2008,
Aryae Coopersmith said…
- Holy Brother,
Thank you for your teaching. May the great neshama of the Holy Baal Shem Tov give us all the strength to find the holy sparks everywhere, wherever we wander, and bring them home.
- At 9:50am on July 2, 2008,
reuven sabel aka golden gater rebbe aka proshevitzer rebbe aka proszowicer rebbe said…
- i want to thank aryae for giving me the oportunity to have a webpage where i can put my chidushei torah on the internet.
the baal-shem-tov asked the angel who taught him torah when will moshiach come? the angel replied "eimosai k'awsimar lichsheyafutzu maanosecha chutza, when the deepest secrets of torah and kabala are spread to the lowest places on earth".
i am currently sitting in my car typing this in one of the lowest places on earth, in midtown manhattan, near the israeli consulate where my wife currently is applying for a new israeli passport. the isreali consulate's not letting people in after noon is proof that the israeli government has joined the family of nations, the family of goyim, and that makes israel one of the lowest places on the earth and therefore a place where the deepest secrets of the torah and kabala must be spread to every inch of holy land that we jews want to live on instead of give away to arabs. the internet is one of the lowest places on earth or at least the lowest medium for spreading messages and therefore the holiest secrets of vthe torah and kabala must be spread to all places on the internet, even the lowest of the lowest places on the internet.
hashem, help us to have more mitzvos and less averos than the arabs who want to take the holy land away from us!!!!!!!!!!!!
- At 9:05pm on June 25, 2008,
reuven sabel aka golden gater rebbe aka proshevitzer rebbe aka proszowicer rebbe said…
- more gematrias. the gematria of shaar zahav is 584 which is also the gematria of b'eretz tziah v'oiyef b'chai, the land of spiritual drought and spiritual desolation in life. there is a congregation of spiritually seeking jews by this name in the gay tzalmavet of san francisco that need to have their toenails STRAIGHTened out,but the reform movement has taken over this synagouge and is doing everything possible to see to it that the hearts of the members of this congregation stay in the wrong place. shlomo said to irving salomon that we cant do anything to STRAIGHTen the crooked toenails until we fix the heart. how will we ever be able to ever STRAIGHTen out their crooked toenails when the reform movement does everything possible to keep their hearts in the wrong places!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- At 8:44pm on June 25, 2008,
reuven sabel aka golden gater rebbe aka proshevitzer rebbe aka proszowicer rebbe said…
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- At 8:44pm on June 25, 2008,
reuven sabel aka golden gater rebbe aka proshevitzer rebbe aka proszowicer rebbe said…
- more gematrias. the gematria of america is 412 which is also the gematria of bayit or house, the not mamash permanent structure that we live in in galut.
- At 7:39pm on June 25, 2008,
reuven sabel aka golden gater rebbe aka proshevitzer rebbe aka proszowicer rebbe said…
- today's nesayon is not that we think that we have to work on saturday in order to make a living. today's nesayon is whether we will spread the light of shabos and the song of shabos to the whole world or whether we will be complacent to not break shabos and rest and eat cholent on shabos.
- At 7:34pm on June 25, 2008,
reuven sabel aka golden gater rebbe aka proshevitzer rebbe aka proszowicer rebbe said…
- i want to thank aryae for putting links to chabad and breslev websites on my page. i feel that aryae's choosing a secular lifestyle and my grandfather's choosing a secular lifestyle had great similarities. my grandfather thought that not working on saturday in the america of 1923 was an unsustainable lifestyle and aryae felt that the lifestyle of the house of love and prayer was an unsustainable lifestyle. my grandfather became an auto body and fender repairman and aryae became a carpenper. my grandfather went on to get a phd degree in eye relaxation therapy and become an eye relaxation therapist. aryae went on to get a master's degree in psychology and become a career counciler and later become a human recources counciler, consultant, and manager.
aryae, you are now 64 and a half years old and it is time for you to retire from or at least semi-retire from your secular life and devote the rest of your life to doing what shlomo wanted you to do, to spread the song of shabos and the light of shabos to the whole world.
- At 11:12am on June 25, 2008,
Aryae Coopersmith said…
- Holy Brother Reuven,
Your story, of your experiences with Reb Shlomo, the House, your family, your holy grandfather the Proshevitzer Rebbe, your coming into Yiddishkeit, your teshuvah for how you spoke about Reb Shlomo, and your current commitment to Torah and Yiddishkeit, is awesome! Baruch HaShem and yashir koach!
With love and respect, please accept two comments.
First, regarding your remark about me and Shabbos. I want you to know that, ever since my days with Shlomo and the House starting 40 years ago, I do not work on Shabbos. As you know, I am not Orthodox and do not observe all the halachos, but love of Shabbos is still central in my life.
Second, about "Amalak's Internet." I understand your point: there is a lot of negative stuff, and evil stuff on the Internet. Sadly the Internet does not seem any different in this regard than the rest of the world. However the holy communities of Breslov, Chabad, and literally hundreds of others are also present, offering an amazing wealth of Torah, and Jewish resources. My statement is, the Internet is like the rest of the world. There is both the holy, and the not so holy, and it is up to us to make good choices, and with God's help find the hidden sparks and lift them up where we can.
Thank you for sharing your story at the House Online. This is a great contribution to our community!
With love and blessings.
Aryae
- At 12:16am on June 24, 2008,
reuven sabel aka golden gater rebbe aka proshevitzer rebbe aka proszowicer rebbe said…
- it is very interesting that the gematria of golden gate is 275 which is the gematria of harah (the evil).
if i offended anybody with my harsh comments in my june 11th posting, please forgive me . i did not mean to offend you. first we have to fix your heart and only after your heart is in the right place is their any hope for STRAIGHTening out your crooked toenails. only when you will believe in g-d like reb levi yitzchok berditchiver believed in g-d after having learned torah from reb shmelke of nikolsburg is their any hope of STRAIGHTening out your crooked toenails.
- At 1:52pm on June 11, 2008,
reuven sabel aka golden gater rebbe aka proshevitzer rebbe aka proszowicer rebbe said…
- shlomo said that san francisco is the land of tomorrow and yerushalayim is the land of the day after tomorrow. the gematria of san francisco without a yud is 696 which is the gematria of b'eretz tzia v'oiyef bli mayim, the land of spiritual dryness and spiritual desolation, the land where yiddishkeit is dry and cold and the kaltkeit the spritual coldness of the misnagdishkeit permeates our feelings of being lost in galut and not knowing how to serve hashem.the gematria of san fransisco with a yud is 706 which is the gematria of gam ki elech b'gay tzalmoves, even though i walk in the valley of the shadow of death, the riverless dry gulch (castro gulch and polk gulch)(gay), the abonination lifestyle that san francisco is notorious for that make it impossible to have children by denying the holiness of the bris mila,as opposed to emek or river valley full of flowing water, full of flowing torah which is compared to water, i will not fear evil for i know that you, hashem, are with me. it is very interesting that the gematrias of both ways of spelling san francisco lead to pasukim that mention places that have no physical or spiritual water, places that are devoid of spiritual torah.
the gematria of yerushalayim spelled with a yud is 596 which is the gematria of b'eretz tzia v'oiyef bal. bal is aramaic for lo or no or negative. yerushalayim is the negative of a land that is spiritually dry and devoid of spiritual torah. when the people who live in the land of the gay, the almost bottomless pit that prevents them from having children, come from san francisco and other similar places to proclaim in the holy city in which torah can have no spiritual drynessthat they are proud of their sins, we should tell them that we are ashamed of our sins and ask them why are they proud of their sins.
may we all personally meet eliyahu hanavi at a bris very soon and open our hearts to eliyahu hanavi that eliyahu hanavi should help all of us to do complete teshuva no matter low we have sunk into the abyss of a non-spiritual life.
- At 12:03pm on June 11, 2008,
reuven sabel aka golden gater rebbe aka proshevitzer rebbe aka proszowicer rebbe said…
- shlomo said that san francisco is the land of tomorrow and yerushalayim is the land of theday after tomorrow. the gematria of san francisco
- At 5:11pm on June 1, 2008,
reuven sabel aka golden gater rebbe aka proshevitzer rebbe aka proszowicer rebbe said…
- we should be celebrating the 40th aniversery, yes the 40th birthday of the house of love and prayer, hashem help us to become stronger and stronger in yiddishkeit every day!!!!!!!!!!! this shabos parshas bamidbar was the 40th aniversery of shlomo's first shabos at the house of love and prayer and the 40th aniversery of my first shabos at the house and the 40th aniversery of the first time i kept shabos.
- At 8:51am on May 29, 2008,
reuven sabel aka golden gater rebbe aka proshevitzer rebbe aka proszowicer rebbe said…
- nobody should compromise halacha to see the musical about shlomo. men should not go see the musical because women are singing in it. therefore we need a woman who was at the house to go to manhattan to see the musical and write a review about it and let the people who arerunning this musical know how inaccurate the musical is about the life of shlomo and what went on at the house of love and prayer. the manhattan carlebach shul emphattically disclaims any involvement with this musical. this musical portrays shlomo as a rebel against the torah way of life instead of a great rabbi who bent over backwards to mekarev people to the torah way of life.
- At 8:32am on May 29, 2008,
reuven sabel aka golden gater rebbe aka proshevitzer rebbe aka proszowicer rebbe said…
- i stumbled accross this website during my search to find the producer or director of the new broadway musical about shlomo and the house house of love and prayer, neither of whom have any websites or links on how to reach them. how impersonal!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i wonder if anybody who was ever at the house of love and prayer has seen the mustcal about shlomo and the house of love and prayer. it would be a good idea if somebody who was at the house would go to manhattan to see the musical and write a review about the musical and put it on this website and maybe even on other more read websites. this play is written by and performed by people of the younger generation who only know what they heard from stories that we older ex-hippies told them, but they know notthing first hand.
- At 5:59am on May 29, 2008,
Aryae Coopersmith said…
- Reuven,
Holy brother -- welcome to the House Online! I look forward to your comments and stories.
My take on the Internet is, it's like the phone. It's impersonal as you say, just a way to communicate for good or bad. It depends on what we choose to say to each other -- it's all up to us!
I agree with you that we can't mekarev anyone on the Internet. There's a lot of garbage here, but also many, many amazing sources of Torah learning. And once we're already met a holy brother or sister who has brought us close, why not use the tools, which HaShem has caused to show up in our world, to communicate with other for good?
Aryae
- At 1:42am on May 29, 2008,
reuven sabel aka golden gater rebbe aka proshevitzer rebbe aka proszowicer rebbe said…
- i see that the house of love and prayer has gone to the extremely impersonal internet where there is no love and there is no prayer. shlomo never used a computer and certainly never used amalek's internet his whole life. his derech was to personally show everybody his love for them. if he would have tried to mekarev us on amalek's impersonal internet, none of us would have become religious!
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