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Rabbonim and Public Figures Warn Against Tzav Pius
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

Secular and national-religious figures behind an organization called Tzav Pius have been trying repeatedly to penetrate the chareidi public through billboards calling for "reconciliation" between chareidi and secular Jews. The weekly magazine Mishpachah recently printed an ad for the organization, which was been banned by maranan verabonon including Maran HaRav Eliashiv shlita.

In an expose published two years ago Yated Ne'eman explained that these initiatives, ostensibly to promote "dialogue," seek to cause breaches in the uniqueness of the chareidi public, to remove the barriers between yirei Hashem and porkei ol and to challenge the principle of dissociation introduced by the great leaders of the previous generation as a foundation for survival by impeding all outside influences.

Two years ago rabbonim and public figures explained that these types of initiatives stand in total contradiction to daas Torah since maranan verabonon, led by Maran HaRav Eliashiv shlita expressed strong opposition to the idea of "dialogue" and "reconciliation" designed to create the distorted impression that Torah-true Jews and Torah desecraters can blend together as if they were two sides of the same coin, capable of finding common ground through "encounter groups."

Gedolei Yisroel have forbidden these meetings outright, saying they should not be considered outreach but a dangerous attempt to foster a meeting of the minds with porkei ol. According to HaRav Eliashiv, dialogue generally has no benefit and even if some benefit might result, the damage is certainly greater.

A letter against Tzav Pius written by HaRav Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz and co- signed by HaRav Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman has been disseminated along with statements by HaRav Moshe Shmuel Shapira and HaRav Shmuel Auerbach.

According to rabbonim and public figures, weeklies aimed at chareidi readers have repeatedly lent a hand to individuals trying to render irreversible damage to chareidi thinking, and by doing so these publications raise a hand against the Torah in brazen contradiction to gedolei hador, demonstrating the inadequacy of the rabbinical oversight of their contents.

 

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