Comments on: For them, Yom Kippur was easy as pie

By: L.Oberstein

L.Oberstein — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:30:31 +0000

Those who are surprized that a true tzadik would care about females are victims of false stereotyping . I find the behavior of , for example, Gerrer Chasidim regarding separation of genders, which incluldes no pictures of women , no matter how modestly they are dressed and hardly any mention of female names in Hamodia, unless they are dead to be strange. However, this has nothing to do with not caring about women, it is a matter of tzniyus. There are wonderful Gerrer Bais Yaakovs,etc. It is a cultural difference from Western society and not my way, but I respect their integrity.

By: Phil Silverman

Phil Silverman — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 04:35:26 +0000

For those who have the book “Along the Maggid’s Journey,” by Pesach Krohn, see page 92 for two touching D.P. camp stories of the Klausenberger Rebbe.

By: Sammy Finkelman

Sammy Finkelman — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:12:53 +0000

>> What struck me most in researching the DP camps was the effort that the Klausenberger Rebbe expended on rehabilitating the girls, something usual for a chassidic rebbe.

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Q. Should the word there be unusual? Something unusual? Also anyway, can somebody elaborate?

By: Saul Mashbaum

Saul Mashbaum — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:14:19 +0000

Rav Asher Z. Weiss, a prominent disciple of the Sanz-Klausenberg Rebbe and now one of the leading rabbonim in Yerushalayim, also has spoken of the great effort the Rebbe devoted to the encouragement of the heartbroken and dispirited girls and young women in the DP camps, and his efforts to increase their halachic observance. Among elsewhere, I believe he spoke on this subject at an Agudah National convention years ago; his description of the Rebbe’s activities in this area brought some of his audience to tears.

Saul Mashbaum