Friday, December 3, 2010

Harav Zini "Where are the rabbanim who claimed we shouldn't fast for rain?"

The website Srugim has been working fast, and Quotes Harav Zini Rosh Yeshiva of the little known Hesder Yeshivah in Haifa. Below is my very fast translation, and the hebrew original.

"To our sorrow and loss, this is a clear rebuke to those fools who think themselves great men, who dared this week to raise themselves to the level of Poskim and tell the public, without any shame, and with no humility that they shouldn't listen to the Rabbanut Harashit, and even dared argue that there is no need in a fast for rain, because today there is no danger to life by lack of rain."

לצערנו ולדאבוננו, זו תשובה ניצחת ונוראה לאותם כסילים החושבים עצמם עידית האדם, שהתיימרו בשבוע זה להעלות את עצמם למדרגת פוסקים ולטעון ברבים, ללא בושה, ללא כל צניעות שאין לשמוע לרבנות הראשית, ואף העיזו לטעון שאין צורך בתענית גשמים, כיון שאין בימינו חשש לסכנת חיים בהעדר גשמים."

These words are clearly aimed at Harav Moshe Lichtenstein. I am shocked by Rav Zini's lack of respect towards Harav Lichtenstein. His style is unbecoming of a rabbi talking about a leader of another Hesder Yeshivah, and I hope that this style is merely the result of his grief.