Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto in a Dramatic Call: "Disconnect from the Media

The Gaon HaTzaddik Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto shlit"a, head of the Shuvu Yisrael institutions in Israel and abroad, continues his sharp message against those people who flood the world with lashon hara (evil speech) and cause the destruction of the world. The words of Rabbi Pinto join a series of poignant messages and lessons that the Rav delivers on the subject, which illuminate the severity of speaking about tzaddikim and Torah scholars. These are his holy words.

"Who has the strength to speak about people on the level of Samuel the Prophet, of Moses our Teacher, of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai?"

"It is forbidden; one must take this as a rule. The tzaddikim of Shuvu Yisrael, we say this with suffering. We cry from pain, we cry with suffering, we tell you. Accept upon yourselves: Disconnect from everything that is spoken in the media; these are bad and not good things. They are paid to write this; they are brainwashing you with nonsense. The things they say are not true; if someone wants to destroy someone, they pay."

"We knew 10 years ago a person who wanted to buy a company, and so-and-so did not want to sell to him. He went to a publicist, paid him 5,000 dollars a month to publish bad articles about that person, until he would fall; he would fall and he would take the company."

"We were shocked; from that day on we could no longer listen to that person - they pay the media money to kill a person. For with their anger they killed a man; once they would kill people with a rifle, today they kill people with money."

"First thing: do not listen to idle talk, even in the religious media - everything there is sold for money. Distance yourself from there like from fire, do not listen, do not accept, do not be a part of it. Whoever reads it receives lashon hara; we learn this from the Chafetz Chaim. Everything there is mixed with lashon hara; this one paid, this one didn't pay - they harm this one, they do this to that one - this is lashon hara."

"Distance yourself from lashon hara. You want to know what happened? Don't worry, you will know! Do not live the lie, it is lashon hara."

"Second thing: distance yourself from rabbis who speak lashon hara about other rabbis - it is forbidden to speak lashon hara about rabbis! A person must respect rabbis and Torah scholars; a rabbi is a holy thing - one must respect rabbis!"

"Did you grow up in a home where Torah scholars were harmed? Sit and read stories of tzaddikim! Cleave to the tzaddikim; the power of tzaddikim is a most great power!"

"From the creation of the world there were tzaddikim: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Shem and Ever. What, to break this? To collapse this? To destroy this? Who can destroy this? Because someone has an interest, so he will destroy the faith in the Sages?"

"It is forbidden to destroy the faith in the Sages!"

"There is a war in which funds are allocated in order to break the innocence. We sat in America with great people whose entire essence is to break the innocence."

"We sat in America with great people whose entire essence is to break the innocence - there is a new world called - the New Judaism! They maintain that a Jew should help AIDS patients in Africa. Where is Judaism? What is Judaism? According to their system, this is the New Judaism!"

"All the Judaism of the Torah, of the mitzvot, of the service of Hashem, they are fighting a hard war against it; they are investing millions in order to break the Judaism of the Torah!"

"Due to our many sins, we only read how once they would study Torah for days - today they have broken through everything, they have broken everything. Who had a radio in the yeshiva? Who had a tape recorder in the yeshiva? Who had the internet in the yeshiva? Who had a television in the yeshiva?"

"Today they have broken everything! They have erased everything! They have destroyed everything! A person must cry bitter tears to Hashem, to remain innocent with Hashem - this is the greatest virtue."