Smoking On Shabbs While Studying Talmud

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The next GODOL HADOR of Lakewood

Tsunami Hit Lakewood!

The entire Frum World is in SHOCK!

Lakewood just got a taste of their own medicine – a product of their own culture.

Lakewood had incubated, created and unleashed a MONSTER, "a new kind of G-d".

This new Monster, broke loose in Lakewood and has now Attacked the community which created it.

The name of this Lakewood Monster, "G-d" is called:

"Shteigen in Lernen"

and is called

"Becoming a Godol".

Every youngster in the Lakewood and Litvishe world is brainwashed from childhood that the only thing that matters is "shtigen in lernen" and that everyone must attempt to grow up to at least try and "Become a Godol".

Otherwise you are considered to be "a nothing" or as Leah would call it "A Shtick Drek".

They don’t worship G-d, per say, rather they worship their "learning" – they worship "making chidushim" (inventing new ideas in Torah) and they worship their intellectual "shteigen in lernen".

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This should come as no surprise for the Litvishe Velt.

In the Litvishe Velt they are brainwashed that knowledge of Torah is everything and no one thinks much beyond that point.

In the Chassidishe world a child is educated and lives in a culture where he is taught that the highest virtue is to be a real and proper authentic yid, with real and true yirash shomayim and "knowing how to learn" is only 1 out of 613 "parts" of Yiddishkiet.

In the Lakewood world, "knowing how to learn" is where Yiddishkeit begins and that’s where it ends.

If you know how to learn you are great yid and if not you are a big zero – a piece of nothing.

This is very typical for Lakewood.

Lakewood got what they deserved !

To illustrate how their culture works, the following story illustrates, that something which should have made the Litvishe World, bury their head in shame, was instead featured, by them, as feature story, a story to be proud of and reflects very precisely the deliberate targeted culture of their "system" to brainwash their children that "shtigen in lernen" is everything and otherwise you are "a nothing" :

In Lakewood, they can’t see the forest only the trees.

Olomeinu Magazine – a periodical that was distributed to all Litvishe Yeshiva Students to help form, shape and culture the young minds of every Litvishe Yeshiva child.

Olomeinu magazine was so proud of themselves that a little kid who was a full fledged bum, so called "shegetz" as kid, who didn’t even have a Yarmulke, ended up being their so called "GODOL" because "he knows how to learn so good".

In contrast, all Chassidishe Rebbe’s had always displayed supernatural Kedusha even even as small children and even as infants.

Some contrast! It’s a WORLD of a difference.

For example:

In Slabotke Yeshiva (where the greatest Litvishe Gedolim learned as buchrim) it is known that many Bochrim who were giants in Torah, had written, their genius, Chidushey Torah, on Shabbos, while smoking cigarettes!

As for the Olemeinu Magazine Story, everyone can look it up in your local Jewish Periodicals Library many years ago.

The story featured in Olomeinu Magazine relates:

Once there was a teenager who was completely fried out, and did not even wear any Yarmulke at all but "he had a very good head!".

This so called "Yidishe Shegetz’l", was a real true genius of brain.

This kids IQ was enormously high but yet he was a total typical fried out kid roaming the streets.

Atzmus writes: Aaron Kotler did learn in the infamous Slabotke Yeshiva which is notorious for having buchrim write their Chidushim on Shabbos while smoking cigarettes.

We have no evidence that Aaron Kotler himself, also personally wrote his Chidushim on Shabbos while smoking cigarettes but other buchrim in this same Yeshiva certainly did.

From netiv.org:

"A student in Slobodka was once caught smoking on Shabbat. Although he did not prevent others from doing so, the Sabba M’Slobodka dared not eject the student from the Yeshiva, that’s how afraid he was of hurting people. There are many stories told of how far our great leaders would go not to offend others."

From e-geress.org: "Their studies were not limited to mathematics. Often before class they would engage in deep Talmudic disputation, "…often without yarmulkes, on Shabbos, smoking cigarettes. They just loved to learn Talmud. It is hard for us to understand that frame of mind. We only associate ‘learning’ with the religious experience, while they learned purely for intellectual motives," Rabbi Wein observed in one of his taped "Biography" lectures."

Leah Kleim writes: