the Shitah of Chi is a foundational "god" concept of Eastern religion (BOC p.91;191,2)

BS"D

1 Av, 5780 (July '20)

Esteemed Readers,

The attached documents present some basic information regarding the actual nature of the foundational Taoist divinity notion of "Ch-i," which Rephoel Szmerla unfortunately seeks to incorporate into Judaism, in his book inaccurately titled "Alternative (sic) Medicine (sic) in Halacha" (sic).  It was said about the "Holy Roman Empire," it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. The aforementioned book is neither about "Alternative" systems, or Medicine, rather avdocating for New-Age Energy Healing approaches. Moreover, the book certainly cannot make any  claim to be based on Halacha, e.g. even just for the simple reason that - even on the face of it - he acknowledges trying to wed foundational Toaist notions with Judaism.  

His book, initially published three years ago, was recently published in Hebrew, with a similar (second ) English version.

In this version, Szmerla opted to publish a letter, bitterly and inaccurately lashing out at critics of his book, with a signature of R. Shmuel Kamenetsky. Rav Kamenetsky clearly informed me, at the time I was alerted to the letter - by Rav Moshe Green ZT"L - about 27 Tammuz, 5777 [Erev Shabbos] - that he didn't sign it; and he was clearly distraught over it then. At that time, he authorized me to publicize the fact (of the forgery). (At that time, he declined to sign a letter to that effect, however.) 

Good Chodesh,

Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter,

Tomim Tih'yeh,