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  • I find it very difficult to imagine nice loyal charedim not accepting "daas torah" and what the "gedolim" say.

    Israelated - English Israel blogs 2008

  • There is no small number of gedolim in our history with advanced education.

    JPPPI Don’t Like Frum People | Jewschool 2007

  • The majority of gedolim in my circle have dismissed the ben niddah concern nowadays.

    Tainted Love Child: The Baal Teshuvah’s Status as a Ben Niddah in the Haredi World | Jewschool 2007

  • To say that a group of people who defy their gedolim whose hechshers they scrupulously check for are “fundamentalists” when Scripture specifically says not to do what they are doing is just a farce.

    JPPPI Don’t Like Frum People | Jewschool 2007

  • They said "why now?" and "who are you, if the gedolim of the previous generations didn't emphasize this, who are you to do so?"

    Israelated - English Israel blogs 2010

  • They were blind to the vision of those gedolim who looked beyond the four cubits of their galut and preferred to live in a reborn Eretz Yisrael - the only land where, according the Ramban, Torah can be observed fully and properly.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • The tefillos are led by our venerated gedolim and admorim.

    Yeshiva World News 2010

  • MAY HASHEM HAVE MERCY ON KLAL YISRAEL!! its time for the jews to show them once and for all pls pray for our fellow bretherens safty and complete success the gedolim requested that everyone say tehillim kapitelach 83,130and,142 after every teffilah pls dont forget

    YESHIVA WORLD NEWS 2009

  • Many of our gedolim have spoken out against such insanity.

    Aish Weekly Articles 2009

  • The nature of the "minor" fasts discussed including R'YBS's possible comment that he knew gedolim who in times of pogroms and tragedies would fast the full day (and night) on these fasts due to lack of shalom malchut:

    Hirhurim - Musings 2009

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