The Chazon Ish said: Who in our time is considered a frumme apikoros (a religious heretic)? Anyone who claims that it is the fault of the rabbis that 6 million Jews were murdered in Europe, and anyone who celebrates Independence Day (Mishkenos Haro’im, p. 1197) The Zionist Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Rabbi Unterman, showed…

This week we present a collection of Divrei Torah and stories on the subject of following the majority. Follow the majority opinion. (Shemos 23:2) At the Knessia Gedolah of Agudath Israel in Marienbad, 1937, the central topic of discussion was the recent proposal of England’s Peel Commission to partition Palestine, designating a piece for a…

The belief in the coming of moshiach is one of the thirteen principles in which every Jew must believe: to look forward to and wait for that great time when he will come. Therefore, one should not be in doubt about this even for a moment, but rather he must believe clearly that the word…

In the summer of 1937, the third convention (knessiah) of Agudath Israel was held in Marienbad. It was attended by hundreds of rabbis, heads of yeshivas and grand rabbis of Chassidic communities from a number of countries. Rabbi Aharon Kotler attended this convention. The central topic of discussion was the recent proposal of Britain’s Peel…

From The Jewish Observer, October 1977 “Holocaust” – A Study Of The Term, And The Epoch It Is Meant To Describe, from a discourse by Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner Shlit”a, translated by Chaim Feuerman and Yaakov Feitman Yeshiva and dayschool principals from across the nation posed the questions to RABBI YITZCHOK HUTNER שליטא, Rosh HaYeshiva of Mesivta Rabbi Chaim…

It happened in the fledgling Slabodka Yeshiva in Bnei Brak. The war was still raging in Europe; the angel of death had almost full reign in the killing fields of Europe. As Lithuania was being decimated Rabbi Isaac Sher resolved to rebuild from scratch in the Holy Land, and founded the Slabodka Yeshiva in Bnei…

Rabbi Shneur Kotler said, “People call the Satmar Rav’s ideas a shitah, but it is not. He proves in Vayoel Moshe that this is what Shas and poskim, Rishonim and Acharonim all held. What he holds is what all gedolei Yisroel once held. On the contrary, our Agudah shitah is a new shitah: that in…

In the summer of 1952, the Baba Sali traveled from Eretz Yisroel to France in order to take care of some business and then move to Eretz Yisroel, as the rabbis of the generation had advised him. When he arrived in Paris, he found out that the holy Rebbe, fighter of the wars of Torah,…

Regarding your question if there is a mitzvah nowadays to live in Eretz Yisroel, as the Ramban says, or if there is no mitzvah nowadays, as Rabbeinu Chaim says, quoted in Tosafos on Kesubos 110b: Most poskim hold it is a mitzvah. But it is obvious that this is not an obligatory mitzvah in our…

It was claimed by Rav Yitzchok Isaac Herzog that Rabbi Eliyahu of Izmir said that the three oaths are no longer in force today. The source for this is his commentary on Shir Hashirim called Dana Pishra, on 3:5. Since the pesukim above are discussing the redemption, Hashem placed an oath again that they should…