Woe to Us from the Day of Judgment

"I very much hope that within these words of mine you will find, if you wish, peace for your soul. And may we merit, and may the great merit of the one whose yahrtzeit is today, the head of our group, R' Levi Yitzchak Bender z"l—whom I saw with my own eyes many times how many good people from among our Anash (members of the community) would come to his home and to the synagogue to speak disparagingly and evilly against R' Leizer and his people... and R' Levi Yitzchak would listen and listen, and then I heard from him these exact words: 'What do they want? I arrive at the shul early in the morning, whom do I find there? R' Leizer's people! Who goes to the field? R' Leizer's people! Whom do I meet at the mikvah early in the morning? R' Leizer's people!—What do they want?'—May his memory be a blessing and may his merit protect us."

This is how Rav Motta Frank, one of the most prominent Breslov mashpi'im (influencers) in the world, summarizes his sharp letter. Rav Frank, who like many others is pained by the persecution of the Gaon and Tzaddik, Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a, responds sharply to all the conspirators who stop at nothing to disgrace the honor of the Rav shlit"a and the honor of the entire Torah. Rav Frank is not a member of Rav Berland's household, nor is he counted among his inner circle; nevertheless, like any Jew watching from the sidelines, in whom a Jewish soul beats, he is disgusted by the false campaign of persecution against the Rav shlit"a.

"And I will sharpen my words a bit" (Rav Frank begins): "After all, just because you decided, and a few others like you decided, that he and his people and all who assist him are 'Shabbateans,' just because of that you, apparently, permit yourself to speak in such a low and base style every time you mention R' Leizer in your letter... And apparently, it is only because of this that Leizer Chashin, Yom Tov Chashin, and Yehuda Tzvi Zucker decided (and I ask forgiveness for their honor that I cannot mention the title 'R'' before their names here, because for the type of actions I am writing about right now, one cannot call them with an 'R'' before mentioning their names...)—is it only because of their decision that R' Leizer is a 'Shabbatean,' Heaven forbid, that they, apparently, permit themselves to descend so deeply into his life... and to be 'throwing a stone at one who has already fallen'... and not be ashamed to descend to the lowest level on earth and to their own bottom floor, to be those who raise a hand against the Torah of Moshe (as is ruled in Halacha when one turns to secular courts that are not according to the Torah of Moshe...) and even to try to incite and urge people to come 'there' to testify against R' Leizer (as I heard on a recorded tape of what Yom Tov Chashin tried to do in recent days with one of the people close to R' Leizer), and to come before police investigators who hate religion, and to confront R' Leizer (regarding matters that are not at all what will lead to the investigation of the truth and not what will cause him to be punished, because that same woman whom Tzvika Zucker tried to have testify in her matter, when he stands insolently and brazenly before his father-in-law, and behaves as the most base and low ingrate... this woman is standing and shouting that these things never happened... and that they fraudulently extracted from her, as she claims, a false confession several years ago...). And above all, to descend to such a low level as to cause the shaming of R' Leizer's face, and all his people, in public, on such a scale... by means of passing around a tape of a 'so-called' 'confession'... (for anyone who knows R' Leizer's character), which they extracted, in a crooked way, from R' Leizer at the time, and to pass the tape to whom??? Not to rabbis who sit on the matter with gravity and pure fear of Heaven as if the opening of Gehenna is open beneath them... and in a Beit Din composed of at least three dayanim who sit together and conduct themselves with all the laws of investigation and inquiry."

"And they did not pass this tape only to the police investigators, behind closed doors, in order to try to clarify the truth, but to our great sorrow and our immense shame, they did not only pass these tapes to them, but to whom??? To Israeli television!!!! In order to feed the haters of Israel with arrows of poison of hatred against Haredi Judaism and to slander a Rav and his community on a scale that has almost no parallel, and to cause millions of people to speak words of obscenity in the worst way and to have thoughts of sin that are unbearable—Gevald, Gevald, Gevald, Heavens, hear this!!! Who is introducing obscenity here on an unparalleled scale?? Who is introducing thoughts of sin here?? Is it R' Leizer Berland shlit"a, Heaven forbid, or Leizer Chashin and Yom Tov Chashin and Tzvika Zucker? Who??... Think for yourself... Who??"

Woe to us from the Day of Judgment! Woe to us from the day of rebuke!

Anyone who is even slightly familiar with the reasons for everything happening around us knows for certain that our teacher, the Rav shlit"a, is being persecuted for no fault of his own. Furthermore, there is a base group that stops at nothing, not even the most despicable means, against a tzaddik who is the foundation of the world.

To read the full letter.

Letter of response to the response against the pamphlet 'Love Truth and Peace'