The recent local elections caused a severe rift in the Lithuanian public: the opinion of the Grand Rabbi Shteinman and the Grand Rabbi Kanievsky is firmly against voters of the Bnei Torah-Etz party and against readers of the Bnei Torah party's newspaper - 'Hapeles'. However, now it appears that the rift is escalating.
According to what was published last night (Tuesday) by the community of the Grail, the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Schneider, it appears that if there were rabbis and teachers who thought of avoiding the controversy by not deciding which party to vote for when asked - then the Grail's teaching is categorically against those who sit on the fence, and calls on their students to seek new rabbis.
As you may recall, in the local elections, several of the leading Lithuanian rabbis refrained from casting their votes, such as the Grand Rabbis Bergman and the Grand Rabbi Gross, who were abroad during the entire election period, the Grand Rabbi Schlesinger (who refrained from casting his votes regarding the elections in Jerusalem), and the supervising Grand Rabbi Segal, who was abroad.
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Thus writes Rabbi Schneider in a Torah discussion, which ends with the current decision:
""Bava Kama 69b, that one from Gromtha Datai, who was a thief, a thief, etc., told him to use the tools of Rabbi Yossi, son of Judah, and a thief, as a rabbi, etc., that he would not eat you without a doubt, a prohibition, and that he would not prevent you from stealing. And the text of Thos, who was a rabbi, was stricter on him because he was with the people of the land, so that he would not come to ease up on other rings.".
""And they asked whether the Torah scholars who knew the truth that the halakha is according to Rabbi Yehuda, would have been permitted to eat from this Magromta. And our Rabbi said that after the Rabbi forbade it, then it is forbidden for the whole world. And he explained that the halakha ruling in the laws of prohibition and permission is not simply a statement of whether the matter is permitted or prohibited, but rather it is the force of a halakha ruling that must be heard in its words from the law, "You shall not deviate from the thing that the right and the left say to you," and in any case after the Rabbi forbade it, then it is not a matter of deviating.
""According to this, what our Rebbe said a few months ago is well explained, because those rabbis and teachers of instruction who did not obey the voice of the call of the great men of the generation, Shlita, One should not ask them or rely on their legal rulings.
""Since all the power of a teacher is from the side of non-observance, in any case, if he himself does not observe non-observance, it is not appropriate for his words to be non-observance."Even those who evaded us were asked, and he said - to seek other rabbis."". So much for the words of the Grand Master Schneider.
