JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of the passing away of Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss, the leader of the Eda Chareidis, the community’s simmering dispute over its future leaders has boiled over. During the course of the levaya on Sunday, extremist elements shouted insults at Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, the Raavad and posek of the Eda Chareidis and potentially the next leader of the community. In recent years these extremists opposed various rulings which Rabbi Sternbuch had made and they heckled him during the hespedim until Rabbi Yehuda Fisher, a member of the Eda Chareidis’s Beis Din, succeeded in bringing matters under control.
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However a violent dispute broke out during the levaya between supporters of the Raavad and the extremists and one of the latter was hit by the first group. During the evening, members of the extremist group retaliated, hitting a member of the Raavad’s group, who required medical treatment.
“They waited for me in a corner and when I wasn’t looking, two people pummelled me,” the victim said. “They hit me and ran away, screaming: ‘gravedigger, sheigetz.”
The Hamevaser newspaper included a “strong protest” regarding those who insulted the honor of the Raavad during the course of the levaya Sunday.
how blind and stupid must you be to do this during the nine days.
Way way exaggerated, overall the leverage went smoothly with minimal police presence , look at the videos
Generally the raved becomes the gavad when gavad is niftar
However rav shternbuch is 95 and carries a nice title and is in no way interested in becoming gavad he very shvach…during the levaya rav shternbuch spoke for 3 min from his car with oxygen look at the pics..so a few troublemakers made a little noise and rav fisher screamed in to the mic kevod hatorah and it was quiet and continued
The next leader will come from chutz laaretz..as by minchas yitzchok…
Such a Chilul Ha Shem !
Disgusting behavior!
Time to grow up and behave like u should, rather than acting like animals.
I feel bad for the woman who gave birth to people that can not act respectfully and behave decently.
No surprise, they were taught that every shmoiger is Pinchas Hakanai.
ONE troublemaker out of tens ot thousands and this has to be a headline and broadcasted!??!!!
3 weeks. 9 days. We still have a long way to go
Who does this reporting help ? We should really put everything out to the world ? Nothing different with VIN and YWN anymore.
All the fighting, demonstrations, crowd disasters, etc. These buchers are bored! Noting like a bissel tumult at a leyvya to spice things up. Lots to brag about the next day. Not very Torahdik.
If you sleep with dogs you wake up with fleas.
that the Chinuch they got, you don’t like something? use your hands!.. having a problem? solve it with violence
no wonder they turn on each other
I guess we’re going to have sad Tisha biav for years to come. These people must love galus. Maybe they’re having it great so no need for Moshiach to come and take away all their riches and fun.
I agree, the Gaon Adir Rav Osher Weiss should be appointed.
I am having a mi keamcha yisroel moment.
How ironic!
Everyone is so concerned about the 3 weeks and 9 days. Don’t believe the article at all, it’s all LASHON HARA about your fellow Jews during the 3 weeks and 9 days.
In Meah She’arim, “violent behavior” is a redundant term.
real shame. instead of showing respect for the deceased, these people are fomenting trouble.
I saw this exact same comment, literally word for word, not too long ago, which leads me to believe that there is more to this clearly anti-charedi comment than meets the eye.
The comments on this forum are as negative and bad as the fighting at the Gavad’s levaya if not worse. For shame !!!
I am so proud to be a frum Jew now!!!
These aren’t frum Yidden they’re animals
Actually, Rav Weiss ZT”L, has been out of action for around 8 years with dementia. He wasn’t even recognizing family members for quite a few years.
So, in the real world, he has not been the Head of the Eda Chareidis for years.
Love it how such so called “frum” people fight during the 9 days, remember when they come collecting to your country Catskill 3rd home so called askanim
Too bad the Tzionim didn’t go in and knock some heads around.