Comments on: The Rabbi Who Lied Through His Teeth

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:04:36 +0000

Then I presume yr mercy extends to the innocent Palestinians whom the IDF kills in many more thousands than any Palestinian militant does??

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:39:48 +0000

You know what the problem is here? We think we know what morality is.

The Talmud says: “One who is merciful to the merciless, his fate is to merciless to the merciful” (I don’t recall where, but it’s a know verse)

That is exactly what we are doing, Being merciful to the wicked terrorists who kill the inocent.

Rabbi Friedman speaks words of truth and he is not embarrassed about it, even if it’s not PC.

By: kylebisme

kylebisme — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:38:50 +0000

Yet another Whitty dodge, as expected.

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:05:46 +0000

I address it daily, and TO habad leadership (as anarchic as it is) regularly, when I see it.

It RARELY is evident in day to day behavior, or stated attitudes.

Maybe I only have contact with the “dissenters” among Chabad. I don’t think so.

I see you shooting first, asking questions later, in the name of opposing prejudice, so I don’t understand why I should regard your comments as informative.

I see Richard S periodically expressing bigotry (in the name of opposing bigotry). Should I then reject every comment that he ever makes?

By: kylebisme

kylebisme — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:11:45 +0000

I have no issue with concepts of responsibility. “The souls of the nations of idol-worshippers are from the other, the impure ‘shells’ which contain no good at all” is the example of supposedly Biblically inspired supremacism I referred to. But you don’t have any intention of addressing anything of the sort, do you?

By: Joachim Martillo

Joachim Martillo — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:02:34 +0000

I think Richard Witty is telling us that Friedman is more like Alfred Rosenberg than like any of the anti-Nazi resistance in Eastern Europe.

It is true that Rosenberg seems to have been a good religious family man, who was appalled at German Nazi mistreatment of Slavs and who unlike the anti-Nazi resistance never killed anyone with his own hands, but like Friedman and the Lubavitcher Hassidic movement today created a mentality of hate, racism and mass murder.

Rosenberg was executed at Nuremberg. As far as I know the Nuremberg Tribunal never convicted anyone of any crimes for anti-Nazi activities but did convict a lot of German Nazis for persecuting and punishing the anti-Nazi resistance and its supporters just as Israeli Zionists punish the anti-Zionist resistance and its supporters.

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:40:58 +0000

I’ve looked at some of the videos of Rabbi Freidman, and find them helpful, not cruel.

He’s a human being, nowhere near the ethical scale of a suicide-bomber, or facilitator.

Criticize his points. Make contact with him even. Confront his ideas.

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:36:59 +0000

I don’t attribute a special obligation to be equivalent to “biblically inspired supremacism”.

I’m sorry that you adopt a willingly contemptuous approach to personal and collective responsibility.