https://mishpacha.com/shattered/
As a community rav, this dynamic is one that Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman of Passaic is all too familiar with. He sees this abuse play out in both parenting and marriage relationships. “It has nothing to do with Hashem,” he says firmly. “These abusers hide behind Hashem, to dominate people, to abuse people — all in the name of G-d.”
And while the abusers may cite halachah and maamarei Chazal, their actions are not rooted in any form of holiness. “You have parents who are abusive to their kids, so they jump on the kibbud av v’eim bandwagon,” Rabbi Eisenman says. “But their actions have nothing to do with halachah and everything to do with their world view and what they think is right, regardless of halachah.”
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
ReplyDeleteHow many glowing biographies have Mishpacha and Ami and the rest done over the years on men who turned out to be absolute bastards?
ReplyDeletesee latest on Litzman
ReplyDeleteHow many?
ReplyDeleteRemember when Ami Magazine ran a puff piece on how Lev Tahor were pure, authentic Torah Jews unsullied by the modernisher velt?
ReplyDelete“Spiritual abuse - is religion inherently abusive?” Sounds like a KA question, awful. It invites smears of Garnel "over the years on men who turned out to be absolute bastards."
ReplyDeleteGood news I saw on Pacer!! July 26, 2022 Judge Freda freed Rabbi Mendel Epstein to go home and allowed to go to shul.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Case No. 3:14-cr-00287 (FLW)
ORDER ON MOTION FOR
SENTENCE REDUCTION UNDER
18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)
(COMPASSIONATE RELEASE)
v.
MENDEL EPSTEIN
Upon motion of the defendant for a reduction in sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A),
and after considering the applicable factors provided in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) and the applicable
policy statements issued by the Sentencing Commission, and without objection by the government,
IT IS ORDERED that the motion is: GRANTED
“Spiritual abuse - is religion inherently abusive?” No. Daf Hayomi just now. Kethuboth 37a:
ReplyDelete“For it was taught: Proselytes, captives or [female] slaves who were ransomed, or proselytized. or were manumitted, must wait three months [after her conversion, before she is permitted to marry. in order to make sure that she was not with child prior to her conversion.] if they were older than three years and one day; so R. Judah. R. Jose permits immediate betrothal and marriage.”
I like R. Jose so as not to put road blocks on the marriage of proselytes, captives or [female] slaves who wish to marry a Jewish man.
My theory. yes R. Judah requires her to wait 3 months for good reason. Known that proselytes (before their conversion), captives (not for ransom money) or [female] slaves (hired to bear children for the master) give themselves up easily to men with yezer hara for a one night fling. I say so what? R. Jose says let these ladies over the age of 3 marry a Jewish immediately. This makes for more babies in the world.
בראשית פרשת נח פרק ט פסוק ז
וְאַתֶּם פְּרוּ וּרְבוּ שִׁרְצוּ בָאָרֶץ וּרְבוּ בָהּ:
רש"י בראשית פרשת נח פרק ט פסוק ז
ואתם פרו ורבו - לפי פשוטו הראשונה לברכה, וכאן לצווי. ולפי מדרשו להקיש מי שאינו עוסק בפריה ורביה לשופך דמים