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Tuesday 27 September 2016

RABBI SHLOMO BAUMGARTEN

  I REMEMBER YEARS AGO WHEN RABBI SHLOMO BAUMGARTEN WAS ROV IN THE SYNAGOGUE, KNOWN AS ZEIRA AGUDA  69 LORDSHIP ROAD.

THERE WAS NO STRIMEL , HE DID NOT EVEN LET HIS SON YIDDEL WHO BECAME A BELZER CHOSID GO IN A STRIMEL. 

A FEW WEEKS A GO I WAS AT THE  WEDDING WHEN RABBI ZEV FELDMAN, THE ROV WHO TOOK OVER FROM RABBI SHLOMO BAUMGARTEN,  MARRIED HIS YOUNGEST  SON NEARLY ALL HIS  CONGREGATION WERE IN STRIMALS. 

MY QUESTION IS WHO IS RIGHT ? ? 

RABBI SHLOMO BAUMGARTEN OR 

RABBI ZEV FELDMAN ? ?

I ONCE HEARD A STORY THAT THE ENGLISH JEWS WERE NOT ASHAMED OF BEING RECOGNIZED AS BEING JEWISH, AND THAT SAVED THEM FROM THE FATE OF EUROPEAN JEWS.

THE JEWS FROM EUROPE WERE VERY FRUM JEWS BUT WHEN THEY WERE IN THE STREET THEY HID THEIR JEWISH IDENTITY.

THE JEWS OF TO DAY ARE NOT AS FRUM AS THE PARENTS, BUT THEY ARE PROUD JEWS, WHO DO NOT HIDE THERE PIOUS,  STRIMAL, AND JEWISH IDENTITY.   

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