Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto in a Dramatic Call: "Disconnect from the Media - It's All Rigged"

The esteemed Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto shlit"a, head of the 'Shuva Yisrael' institutions in Israel and worldwide, continues with a sharp message against those who flood the world with slander and cause destruction. Rabbi Pinto's words join a series of poignant messages and lessons delivered by the rabbi on the subject, illuminating the severity of speaking against the tzaddikim and Torah scholars. These are his holy words.

"Who has the strength to speak against people the likes of Samuel the Prophet, Moses our teacher, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai?"

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

"We knew ten years ago a person who wanted to buy a company and someone did not want to sell it to him, he went to an advertising person, 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 we could no longer hear from that person - they pay the media money to kill a person. For in their anger they killed a man, once with a rifle they killed people, today with money they kill people."

First thing, do not listen to idle talk, even in religious media - everything there is bought with money. Stay away from there like from fire, do not listen, do not accept, do not be part of it. Whoever reads it receives slander, we learn this from the Chafetz Chaim. Everything there is mixed with slander, this one paid, this one did not pay - they harm this one, they do this to that one - it is slander."

"Stay away from slander. Do you want to know what happened? Don't worry, you will know! Do not live the lie, it is slander."

"Second thing: Stay away from rabbis who speak slander about other rabbis - it is forbidden to speak slander 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 they harmed Torah scholars? Sit and read stories of the tzaddikim! Attach yourself to the tzaddikim, the power of the tzaddikim is the greatest power!"

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

"It is forbidden to destroy the emunah in the sages!"

"There is a war where funds are allocated 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 hold that a Jew should help AIDS patients in Africa. Where is Judaism? What is Judaism? According to them, this is the new Judaism!"

"All the Judaism of the Torah, of the mitzvot, of serving Hashem, they fight it with a hard war, they invest millions to break the Judaism of the Torah!"

"In our many sins, we only read how once they learned Torah for days - today they have broken everything, shattered everything. Who had a radio in yeshiva? Who had a tape in yeshiva? Who had the internet in yeshiva? Who had a television in yeshiva?"

"Today they have broken everything! Erased everything! Destroyed everything! A person needs to cry bitter tears to Hashem, to remain innocent with Hashem - this is the greatest virtue."