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.
