Muman, I want to thank you for your well researched post and explanation. In a time like this, where emotions are running high, it would be easy to just thrash on any person who speaks otherwise of what we want to hear. It is good to be rational, analytic and critical of all statements being made, especially when coming from a Rabbi.
I will say, that in effect, I agree 100% with everything you wrote. As a matter of fact, if I was forced with a choice between Jacob Rosenblum being killed or making teshuva and even becoming a devout Kahanist, I would not hesitate for a second at wanting his teshuva and to become a Jewish brother. However, at the same time I cannot wait for another 3 children or even 100 children to be butchered in cold blood with the help of people like Jacob Rosenblum, before he makes this teshuva. The lives of 3 Jewish souls are very precious and if I should just keep praying in vain for the teshuva of Jacob and the large hordes of other traitors, while they are collaborating and working with the enemy, then we may find there won't be a Jewish people left to pray for.
So, I can see I was running to emotion in criticizing the Rabbi and wish I had the Talmudic understanding and interpretation skills you do to confront the Rabbi at this level. On the same note, I also did a poor job of expressing my sentiments, since my emotions were running high. In fact, I told the Rabbi that a year has gone by now, he is still very active in BDS, Palestinian Anti-Israel groups, travels to Iran ,etc.. Confront him and tell him to make teshuva or throw him out. I did say that I wish he would make teshuva, but I did not emphasize it clearly enough.
However, I must warn people about him. Rabbi Avremi is using this argument of praying for Jacob to become a good person as a means to justify allowing him to stay within the community and continue in his evil deeds. Jacob has had over one year to make teshuva at this synagogue, yet he is as steadfast as ever in his quest to demonize Israel and coerce gullible Jews into supporting the Palestinian cause to kidnap, torment and murder more Jewish children.
Indeed, even the so-called Rabbi Brant Rosen, who is a friend of Jacob (travelled to Iran with him) and is one of the heads of the BDS organization may be able to warp Talmudic scripture against me in an argument that would make a less educated person on Talmud susceptible to feeling derailed. Even, some of the people on Meir Weinstein's group who were misquoting Talmud verses to prove homosexuality is acceptable in Judaism.
That is why I am grateful for you and other people on JTF who can give me a more realistic and sincere interpretation of Talmud, based on the truth and principles of Torah, rather than on the basis of deceit, such as those using Talmud to promote a false cause. For this, I do thank you and others here. Hopefully, one day I will study it myself and then be able to use my own knowledge when engaged in such debate.
I guess what I was trying to say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I apologize for lacking the book knowledge to win a debate with the Rabbi. The Rabbi insists Jacob will change and that he is doing good by providing a good Jewish boy a place to daven and commune. The fact that he befrinded, drank tea, ate and shared intelligence and collaborated with very likely the same terrorists in Chevron as those who murdered these boys are irrelevant. The fact he hates Israel and could care less about Torah (promotes gay marriage, Che Guevara, Islam fanaticism) also means nothing to the Rabbi.
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