NEW YORK (VINnews) — After horrific testimonies recently emerged from survivors of the Lev Tahor cult, a leading member of the cult, Uriel Goldman, responded to the claims in a detailed letter.
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Goldman wrote that “the terrible incitement against the Lev Tahor community has gone up a phase, after the slandering brothers Yoel and Mendy Levy exploited the opportunity for publicity using chareidi journalists who are happy to help criminals spill innocent blood.”
“Among the new libels, they published a letter including a forged signature of one of the leaders of our community with details of how mothers should G-d forbid kill their children and themselves. For 2000 years Jews were murdered in the diaspora due to false libels of Jews slaughtering Christian children for their matzos.
“The libelers knew well that their claims were far from reality and all their neighbors were far from it, but the wild incitement by the priests and the testimony of apostates that they saw such things caused such libels to be believed and even when the Christian boy reappeared, the libels continued to surface.”
Goldman continued his claim, adding that “in this case, murderers of souls have come to persecute us and our wives and children. Some of them serve the idol of Zionism and some are non-believers who have left religion and like other people who have left the path they are happy to publish anything against their parents which will make them hated by others, as described in the Talmud about the generation before Mashiach.”
Goldman traces the libel to when the community left Quebec “due to education decrees” by the government. At the time, one of the dissidents who left the community, Adam Brodzevsky, said that they were capable of “mass suicide” even though when questioned by a judge, he admitted that he had never heard such a concept in the community. He merely said that since they live like Jews in previous generations and in such generations there was a concept of suicide rather than living a non- religious life, “I am concerned that they might encourage mass suicide.”
Goldman adds that “despite the empty accusation, the libel was accepted with glee by the French anti-Semites in Quebec and by the Zionist press.”
Goldman describes other people who left the community and continued to spread the libel and lambasts the “slandering, faithless brothers Yoeli and Mendi” who “slander their mother and siblings. All who see them can recognize that they have left religion and chosen a faithless path and anyone who investigates their words can see how far they are from reality.” Goldman also attacked the media which publicized the testimony of the brothers. “They are cruel murderers who cause a terrible catastrophe to men, women and children with their actions.”
Goldman called to “stop the murder and bloodshed before it is too late, since in the end our blood and that of our children will be on your conscience.”
Hes obviously a liar,
A huge part of the problem of modern liberalism is this. People feel that in order to be fair, one must believe that there is no right or wrong, but rather everything is subjective. The truth is that many things do have 2 legitimate sides, but not everything does. If every opinion needs to be respectfully considered then that would include opinions to promote committing the worst atrocities. People need to have ‘sense’ to know the difference.
So I will now state a fact which should not be open to debate by any sensible person.
When a handful of people, with no known credentials, claim to know better than everyone else, including all rabbis of all Jewish sects, from this generation and previous generations, including even ultra frum such as The Satmarer Rov Z”L, none of whom advocated the Lev Tahor lifestyle or even anything remotely resembling it, and this handful of people isolates themselves, along with some 300 blindly following followers, from the rest of all Jewish communities, conduct their matters in secrecy, and have clearly very unusual practices, do kidnappings along with chillul Shabbos, without having a psak from any rov to allow this, and have zero transparency, then we know that these people are wrong, to put it mildly. End of story.
This is not frumkite it’s shtuskite this is a dangerous cult snd needs to be stopped
Where in the world is kidnap and forced marriage acceptable sipping a women while tied up and then
Forcing her to thank the person with the belt. Sorry hang them up
I was afraid they’d say these are just some OTD folks. We need Satmar and chasdish looking people to testify against them.
he just outed himself as a Satmar by using Satmar language of the “idol of Zionism” btw I am not a Zionist either but this basically constant Zionism this and that is too much.
These people are Jewish just like everyone on this website is Jewish
Along the same lines: the early Christians (as well as yoshke himself obviously) were almost all Jewish and there are opinions that “Peter” was one of the tanayim
Now we just have to wait for lev tahor to make a new calendar with their leaders birthday being 8 days before the new year and the new year being the day he had his bris
he is obviously glued into the cult and resents any one who tells the truth…..
Where is that rich and connected chossid from Williamsburg that snuck “the last Jew” and a busload of others out of Afghanistan, under Taliban rule? Can’t he get these קרבנות out for crying out loud??
I don’t agree with these nuts at all and I think the whole thing is a cult and should be broken apart. However, to some of the commentors here. If you look at teshuvos written 150 years ago or so it is clear that the normative dress for frum women in Iraq and Iran was burqas. Also, tzadikim of the past, including in the gemara, were mestapek b’muat- just seeds or dates from week to week. I’m not saying any of these people are on this level or that any of this applies to this day and age but to claim this isn’t part of our religion and isn’t something to aspire to seems very very mistaken. I would think that the lamed vav tzadikim would be aspiring to be nispashet from gashmius altogether and if you look at what the amoriam attributed their arichus yomim to some of it sounds out there but that’s because we are a generation of beer and chicken wings and texting. Again, I dont think these people are on the level either and clearly abuse… is never okay but to say some of their ideas are not part of the religion seems incorrect.
He is 100% right, why does everybody believe mendy Lowy more than him, people like to hear sad stories and have sympathy, they can connect to it, but it doesn’t mean it’s more true, yes it’s easier to believe someone with a good spirit and happy attitude then them, and one of the reasons are cuz we look at them as if they are sad and crazy and too frum, but again the truth has nothing to do with our feelings and emotions, only when someone can confirm that they did suicide or they killed their own children then you have a basis for believing.
He is right – In our society whichever level of religiosity you adhere to, we believe “WE” are the ones that got it right. If the next person or group is below us, they are modern, missing in their religious observance. If the next group is above us, they are fanatics and intolerant people. Why is that – because each person or group thinks they are the perfect mix, no one says oh yes, we a bit not so frum etc.
Here a group went out of the community to become ultra frum and go to the maximum in Yehadis observance. doing the following: not just cut off the woman’s hair completely or wear sheitel, but they decided to cover the woman face completely not to see a pretty face, don’t we also now do that at Mitzvah Tantz?. For hundreds of years our ancestors married their children off at a very young age, not to fall into sin. Ex: Reb Nachman, the Heiliga Rishiner and most others in their generation married at 13-15 years of age. Next they don’t want to waste a boys time learning English subjects, but in our chasidisha yeshivas also stop at 4 or 5th grade and Chabad has no established English at all in their yeshivas. We also used to administer corporal punishment and hit the children in our schools, but now we are scared to, the examples go on and on.
However, what are we to do we do with a “group” that “moves out and wants to be more religious and extremely observant than the rest” – we attack them as fanatics and deviants. This makes us feel good and justifies our level of religiosity, how dare they go above what we in our minds consider the normal !!!
Not justifying their lifestyles, but only showing why we are so anxious attack them