In this video address, I respond to some of the feedback from my previous three video messages to Chabad shluchim and chassidim worldwide. (Transcript below)
https://rumble.com/vydt11-urgent-message-for-chabad-part-4.html
Sholom uvrocho.
Part four of my urgent message to shluchim and anash.
Today I’d like to respond to some of the feedback I received from my previous videos. Thank you to all for your encouragement.
Several shluchim dismissed my message and made disparaging comments as to my mental capacity. To those of you who think that I am ignorant, inept or unstable, I challenge you to reach out to me and have a dialogue.
To any רב מורה הוראה בפועל who thinks my rationale is flawed, I’d welcome a dialogue or correspondence with you. If you live in reasonable driving distance to Westborough, MA, I’m happy to meet with you in person to discuss. I visit Crown Heights periodically, so I can meet you face to face in בית חיינו , at the ohel, or at any nearby location that’s comfortable for you.
Please be advised: I am quite well-versed on halachic sources pertaining to public health emergencies and public health policy in general, and have thoroughly researched the תשובות that pertain to these topics, and will likely teach you something you didn’t know. But I am definitely open to hearing what you have to say and engaging in objective dialogue.
To the malicious לצים who laugh me off: if I am so clueless and/or unstable as you allege, then why would you be afraid of discussing the matter with me? What do you have to lose? Even better, get your rav or your עשה לך רב to speak with me.
There are a few more false rumors about me that need to be debunked:
Thankfully, I am not a rachmonus case, as I have not “lost my job,” so to say. I was never fired by Merkos or by anyone. I am still running our shul and Beis Chabad like before. We just had hundreds of yidden participate in our Purim activities and are now busily planning for Pesach.
We have a steady minyan every Shabbos. I give two shiurim weekly, and usually have over 75 people in attendance.
Our congregation has grown exponentially since Merkos and the so-called head shliach of Massachusetts gave me all that free publicity. We have thousands of members from around New England, from around the country and some even in foreign countries.
Our classes and services are filled to capacity. Yidden drive to us regularly from all over Massachusetts and from five or six nearby states as well. They have long since stopped going to their own shuls and chabad houses because of tyrannical mask policies, and started attending our shul instead.
Yidden from just about every state reach out to me for online Torah instruction and inspiration. Most of these yidden feel betrayed and marginalized by their local chabad houses.
As I mentioned in my previous video, you thought you were placating mob mentality of the majority, but in doing so, you distanced others.
The Rebbe taught us that לא ידח ממנו נידח, but you have been דוחה these yidden בשתי ידיים
ואין פוצה פה ומצפצף!
Who is responsible to reach out and teach Torah to those yidden whom you’ve excluded and marginalized?
You’re welcome. Trying to do my best under these extraordinary circumstances where so many rabbonim and shluchim worldwide simply dropped the ball and astonishingly betrayed Yidden and distanced them from their קהילות.
It’s true that some yidden here in my מקום השליחות were a little unnerved by my lack of regard for covid policies whenever essential tenets of our religion are concerned. Some didn’t feel comfortable to attend when we had services indoors with no distancing. I tried to accommodate these yidden by making a tent next to our shul so that they could sit in the tent next to open windows and listen in to our service. But ח"ו not for one minute would I ever allow the service to take place in a tent outside of shul. That would be a violation of an essential precept in our religion, the value of davening in a בית כנסת or בית מדרש קבוע.
You see, in my shul, I am in charge. I made that quite clear years ago when our chazzan wished to sing some words of davening to the tune of התקוה, or when a prominent balebus wished to lower the מחיצה, and when a prominent family wished to have a simcha with catering that involved questionable חילול שבת. Exactly the same with regards to covid policy in our shul, or lack thereof. As the מרא דאתרא, I needed to establish that our shul is governed by Torah law, and NOT by state policy or mainstream medical recommendation.
However, unlike you, I was not מרחק anyone. Those people stopped coming because I wouldn’t allow policies that are שלא כדין. They were upset because I refused to be מרחק yidden who aren’t masked, and because I myself will never cover my צלם אלוקים, as a איד טאר זיך נישט שעמען פון זיין צורה, as we learned from the Rebbe Rayatz. So I was not merachek anyone. This is no different than the sad fact that some yidden won’t attend your shul because of your מחיצה.
And actually, most of the people who were dissatisfied with my public position would have been afraid to come to shul anyway due to residual pandemic hysteria. And boruch Hashem, most of these yidden started attending again.
So I ask you: all the yidden you were merachek by your enforcement of covid tyranny… have you made any attempt to be mekarev them again? Have you asked mechila b’rabim for the families you distanced and humiliated?
Someone remarked: “Yeah yeah, Green speaks the truth… but I wish he’d go back to teaching Torah.”
As I mentioned above, I teach Torah regularly. Maybe he meant that he wishes I’d exclusively teach Torah. Well, if he began speaking out in the name of truth, religious freedom, and the inviolable right of every Jewish child to attend Talmud Torah without getting a lethal injection, wearing a muzzle on his face, or getting an intrusive stick up his nose, then that would lighten up the load for me and I’d be able to devote more time to teaching Torah.
When Mordechai needed to advocate for his people and save them from doom, he unfortunately wasn’t able to learn Torah to the degree he was used to. That’s why the megillah says that he was רצוי לרוב אחיו but Mordechai had no choice.
So too in our times. ומרדכי לא יכרע ולא ישתחווה. A true Yehudi does not kneel nor bow before tyranny. Time to stand up and assert our religious freedoms. It’s our birthright. We owe it to our communities and מושפעים. We owe it to our משלח.
You are a shliach or a chabad chossid. Start being a fearless Mordechai. Stop being genuflecting Kaiser-Yuden. Together let’s save chabad , כלל ישראל AND פרט ישראל, from this unthinkable assault on אידישקייט and on humanity. Let us do true honor to the Rebbe’s holy name.
Together, we will raise קרן ישראל and stop kowtowing to the געטשקע called corona policy.
Zol shoin zain וכל קרני רשעים אגדע תרוממנה קרנות צדיק
תיכף ומיד ממש.
Next video, I’ll address the grave danger that is looming over our communities and botei chabad and what we can do about it, so please stay tuned.