There are a few authentic inspirational, sincere Rabbis but, they are really a minority. In general it's a career, not a calling for them, a boys' club, a network of 'I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine'. They are adept and skilled at persuading enough people to support them in order to stay in business through donations and shule salaries etc. This is not that difficult to do, because the average Jew has so little actual Torah education compared to these Rabbis. Therefore, the layperson is often easy to impress, or bamboozle.
The
Rabbis in general are obsessed with public relations. I was legally threatened
by a Rabbi during the gay marriage referendum. I was writing my disgust that
only maybe 1 or 2 out of all the Rabbis stood up for Torah principles regarding
gay marriage. One Rabbi in particular, one who was extremely vocal about being
pro-gay rights, actually got his lawyer to send me a letter threatening me with
defamation. The Rabbi was ready to take me to a civil court for merely
expressing my opposition to his very public and un-kosher opinions. I was the
one actually standing for emes and Jewish law, while he was the one betraying
Torah. I stood up for Hashem, while this prominent Rabbi was concerned only
about about his image, trying to be popular with the more secular crowd by
pandering to the politically correct pro gay rights media. I wish I could say
this Rabbi is the exception, that most of them are authentically and selflessly
out there fighting for Jews, Torah, the Rebbe, and Hashem, but sadly that is
not the case at all.
After
two years since covid, watching how they became shills of the government,
bowing and scraping to tyrants like Andrews etc, it is obvious that if these
guys were living in Russia in 1930 they would have become good little communist
informers for Stalin.
It is
starkly apparent that the majority of them cannot be relied upon or trusted to
have our backs. Their silence is deafening in the face of the horrific damage
inflicted on our communities from the corrupt medical tyranny. Not even the
specter of horrific health issues, infertility, or even the death of young Jews
including children, seems to be enough to motivate them to spur into any action
to help their fellow Jews. For them their government funding, jobs for the boys,
and public relations trump all of that.
What is outrageous is that along with all this,
they gaslight the community with distortions of halacha to justify their
collusion with the corrupt government, repeating all the government lies and
propaganda, taking all of us for fools. Maybe they are fooling themselves but,
if they think they are fooling everyone, or that they are fooling Hashem, then
they are the fools!
