"REEK OF HELL"


Pissed off Liberal Jew had this post about Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu:

So Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu said Reform and Conservative synagogues "reek of hell."

I kid you not:

Reform and Conservative synagogues reek of hell [Gehinom] and a Jew should not even come near their entrance, former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel Mordechai Eliyahu said last week.
"Once I was invited to be the sandak (godfather) at a brit in a three-story building," recounted Eliyahu in his weekly flyer called Kol Tzofayich, which discusses various halachic issues.

"On the first story was a Reform temple, on the second floor was a Conservative synagogue and on the third floor was an Orthodox synagogue where I was invited.

"I wondered how I would manage to pass by those two synagogues that reek of hell. I asked if there was a way of detouring those two entrances and I was told that there was a kitchen through which it was possible to reach the third floor. I announced that I would not go up any other way besides through the kitchen so as to avoid passing by those prohibited synagogues."
I don't have words for such hate. I have friends from across the religious spectrum. We disagree upon many issues (who is a Jew, who can be a rabbi, who makes the best kuggle) but we are civil. Rabbi Eliyahu needs to stop using such causeless and blameless hatred.

As a rabbi he should be teaching the masses about his message of Judaism. He should not be spreading sinat chinam. This is sickening. I showed this to a friend today and she said "really makes you want to go to Israel." Clearly she was being sarcastic.
Why would anyone want to live in a place where your own brothers call you the spawn of hell?
I don't know where he gets the chuzpah to say such things. But the Conservative Movement is taking him to court...lets see if that helps.

That such hate exists in our own ranks really sickens me. I came from Catholicism so judgment & hate were par for the course. I am not so blind that I don't see what is going on in cultures and faiths around the world. The GOD HATES FAGS brainiacs come to mind.

I am not naive enough to think we can all just get along, but we have such big problems facing us as human beings... this pettiness is sick & sad.

(BTW, my temple doesn't reek of hell - unless I am really congested!)

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Anonymous said…
Hey thanks for the re-post. It really is bad times with guys like this.
7:36 PM
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