19 Mar SPEAK YOUR VUES WITH THE VUES MASTER

THREE SELF HATING JEWS
Dear Vues Master:
Isn’t it sad that 3 big people in the United States
government are self hating Jews? Blinken, Schumer &
Sanders are all openly Jewish yet they are the first to
ridicule Israel & the Jewish people. It’s really sad. We are
our own worst enemies.
DY
Vues Master’s Note: There is a famous saying that
sometimes we are our own worst enemies!

CEASEFIRE PINS
Dear Vues Master:
To all the celebrities that chose to wear the “Gaza
Ceasefire Now” Pins to the Oscar’s… Firstly, Israel has
no interest in this war. If Gazans (and yes I mean Gazans,
as it wasn’t only Hamas but “civilians” as well that came
across to murder, rape, torture and kidnap Israeli men,
women and children) wouldn’t have committed such an
unthinkable and unimaginable attack and declaration of
war on Oct 7th, we wouldn’t be in the midst of a full scale
war to rid Gaza of Terror and rescue our hostages. But
enough about that, because Hamas has declined all the
ceasefire negotiations, that honestly were so slanted and
such a bad deal for Israel and really only benefitted Gaza.
But back to the Oscars and the ceasefire now pins… those
pins don’t call for a ceasefire, they call for the massacre
of Jews… for being a celebrity, influencer, social justice

advocate, you are really just a bunch of ignorant anti-
semites. Get your history straight the pine are celebrating

the lynching of 2 Israelis, who driving made a wrong turn
and ended up in Ramallah. They were lynched and one
of the terrorists raised his hands out the window showing
the crowd his hands covered in their blood… To all who
wore the pin, just, shame on you all for promoting hate
and the call of death for Jews while pretending it’s a call
for peace! Just come out vocally as the anti-semites we
know you are, enough pretending.
AS
Vues Master’s Note: Maybe they should have pinned their
mouth Shut!

CANCELLED
Dear Vues Master:
Last week there was supposed to be an Israel Real
Estate Fair at Rabbi Bergmans shul, Khal Bnei Avrohom
Yaakov & on Tuesday night it was canceled. Khal Bnei

Avrohom Yaakov in Brooklyn canceled the real estate fair
supposedly amid legal pressure, calls for protests and a
petition with more than 4,000 signatures to shut it down.
The last stop on the company’s real estate tour, it was to
be held in the Khal Bnei Avrohom Yaakov’s shul hall for
community events and special occasions. The fair took
place. in Teaneck & the Five Towns over the last week.
There were rallies against the fair but everything was
handled properly. “Askonim” from Flatbush reached out
to rabbanim in the community & it was canceled. What
kind of message does this send the Anti Semites? What
kind of message does this send to the Jew * Israel haters?
We can be scared. Our NYPD & Flatbush Shomrim can’t
protect us? This is what happened in Germany. We can
not let this happen again. We must be proud Jews & go
on with our lives. I wish Kahane was around today. He
would have gone berserk last week.
AIH
Vues Master’s Note: I guess they didn’t learn their lesson
from the Holocaust.

SCHUMER
Dear Vues Master:
I was so upset with Schumer’s speech last week. What a
self hating Jew. The biggest joke is that he calls himself
the “Shomer Yisrael”. How dare he say anything about
the Israeli government. As a Yid, I am happy that there
are people like Ben Gvir & Smotrich in the Israeli
government. Schumer shut your mouth.
LY
Vues Master’s Note: Politics Politics Politics! They are
all in it for themselves!

BEST IGROS
Dear Vues Master:
Last week’s fun question in the Jewish Vues on your
favorite Igros Moshe was a classic. It was fantastic.
My rebbie brought it to yeshiva & we went over all the
answers from the different rabanim. One answer was
better than the next. We are so fortunate to have had the
gadol Rav Moshe Feinstein ZT”L in our generation. May
his neshama have an aliyah on his yahrtzeit on Taanis
Esther.
RRF
Vues Master’s Note: Great question and awesome
answers! Enjoyed it myself!

DID YOU KNOW?
Dear Vues Master:
Did you know?
1) Only Meggilas Esther is referred to as a
megillah in Chazal (Bavli & Yerushalmi)
The other 4 are never referred to as a megillah.
2) There is a מחלוקת if the מנהג of banging
at haman is for children only (ל“מהרי (or for
adults as well (צבי חכם(
3) Some have the minhag to bang only where
Haman is mentioned as. המדתא בן המן
4) המדתא בן המן was not the son of המדתא
5) According to the שני תרגום, The 50 אמות
pole, they hanged Haman on, came from
Noach’s Tevah.
6) The name of the horse Mordechai rode on,
was שפרגז) spare gas-super gas- safer gas)
(תרגום שני)
7) The Tur quotes from one of the גאונים to
say תחנון on Purim.
8) According to the Megillas Esther, one may
not fast on the 13th of Adar אסתר תענית a
day before Purim.
9)The total words of Megilas Esther are an
מ“ב תר“צ ס“ק ט) .words of number odd
needs explanation)
10) Esther & Haman are both mentioned 55
times in the Megillah. (רוקח(
MF
Vues Master’s Note: Well now I do know it!

SHABBOS JOBS
Dear Vues Master:
There are some jobs that involve working
and getting paid for Shabbos work that might
need a second look at. Of course the Rav, baal
koreh, and guest Chazanim who all either do
things during the week too for the shul or they
prepare on a weekday which payment can be
consolidated for with their Shabbos activity.
However, what about someone who just hires
a babysitter to watch their kids or baby every
shabbos from 2-5pm? And the most common

one would be waiters that are Jewish. Non-
jewish Waiters may be paid as normal for what

they come on Shabbos to do. But many times
you see jewish guys coming to work just a
kiddush that they will be getting paid later! So
if there was a dinner meal involved the night
before and they showed up before shabbos
started, this of course poses no problem
because they already did Friday work. But
many times there is just a kiddush or also a
Lunch attached to it and they weren’t there
on Friday besides a different delivery guy.
The halacha is that for the shabbos babysitter
or shabbos day waiter to get paid, they must
do something either Friday or after shabbos
connected to the job. It can be something light
like putting sodas in the fridge in advance,
or taking out some trash after. And in a
babysitter’s case you can have them buy you
something like an orange juice and then pay
them the salary with the reimbursement. It is
important to make sure that shomer shabbos
waiters are fulfilling this condition if they are

working for you exclusively during Shabbos
hours, that’s the only way Schar Shabbos is
permitted.
RK
Vues Master’s Note: Well maybe a halacha
letter a week will keep the aveiros away!

RECOGNITION
Dear Vues Master:
Sonia was a good woman. While shopping one
day, she had severe chest pains and was taken
to the hospital by ambulance. The doctors
immediately recognized the symptoms of a
heart attack and began treatment. She had a
near death experience, during which she saw
G-d and asked if this is the end for her. “No,”
she was told. “You have another thirty or so
years to live.” Delighted to hear this, upon
her recovery she figured that if she is going to
live another thirty years, she may as well do
something about her looks. Besides getting
her hair tinted and contact lenses, she got
cosmetic surgery, including a face lift, botox
implant, liposuction, and a tummy tuck.
But just weeks later, as she was leaving the
hospital, tragedy struck. Sonia was struck by
a car and killed. When she arrived before G-d,
she asked “How could this be? You told me
that I had another 30 years. Why didn’t You
pull me out of the path of that car?” To which
G-d replied: “I didn’t recognize you.”
MV
Vues Master’s Note: A person can fool
himself!

PURIM
Dear Vues Master:
This is a letter from Rabbi Kook (Articles of
the Rai’a, p. 107). It is as if it were written
today… In these days of Purim, in these
difficult hours that sufferings surround and fill
the whole world. The goy is full of troubles
from the outside. And greater is the trouble
of our inner troubles, because the peace of
the house is with us, peace of the house israel
Let us remember these days and their events
as they are written before us in the Book of
Esther, which is said in the Holy Spirit. And
the Holy Spirit stands above all the suits of
the times and above all the changes of the
generations. And the eternal saying of “go
and conquer all the Jews” is bound to revive
us again this time, and raise us from all our
inferiors. But of course here will ask those
who know how to ask, and also those who
do not know how to ask: is it possible, now,
that you say “go enter all the Jews”? How
will you put in one fold, in one frame all of
them, all their factions and all their parties,
how will the scattered bones across all the
hollow of the wide exile, the intense exile and
the spiritual exile to get closer to each other,
to be for a one floor lesson called General
israel , which is about to demand Hassanu,
his downfall and his return? Even if you tell
him that this dispersion, both material and
spiritual, we have one place where we can’t
control. And because you will say, we see

with our eyes the terrible inner trouble, how
Jews rise against Jews, how brothers turn
against each other to wolves and snakes, and
how will it say: “Go punish all the Jews”?
While everyone who says that a lie in the evil
De Haman says “we slept with one scattered
and divided” is nothing but a mistake. Truly
scattered and divided is one nation, but in all
it is one nation. And the Lord will say how
it is possible to be two opposites on one
subject, with one on one side and scattered
and divided on the other. Don’t dwell on
the object. There are wonders in the world.
And this nation whose whole stand in the
world is padded with wonders of wonders,
it shows in its being also this wonder, and
in its own essence because it is one nation,
despite what it is scattered and divided. The
truth of the thing about our great disease, the
disease of exile, between the disease of exiles
that in fact hit us with full frown, between
the disease that is exile in force, which has
been covering us since, on which hand came
the exile catastrophe “and before our sins we
were expelled from our country and moved
away from our land”, it envelops us and
makes us a scattered and divided nation, but
the eternal peace… will not lie. Exile with all
its horrors must come to her, and now that the
wind begins to come from the four wings of
the earth, from the troubles that surround us
beyond this and from the spiritual revelation
that fills our battle also together to return and
build in the land of our lives beyond this,
we are close to recognizing that there is a
cure also for our disease of dispersion and
separation. And finally with one we are and
with one we will be, and this time israel will
rise, in his eternal saying of “Go and punish
all the Jews”. But once again the difficulty is
great and stands on the path of redemption
like an iron wall and a stumbling stone after
all the dispersion and separation eats us up in
every mouth. You are also supposed to make
it difficult, because as the self-medicine of the
individual uses it is already in fact to reveal
springs of herself and of health from within
the man himself, from his soul to his soul,
from the unknown soul, fertilized and covered
so much until the man himself does not know
his essence, because it is known that mental
illnesses and their physical consequences,
They do not nest except on the ziberian side
of man, and that is his well-known side,
especially his public and famous side. But
his genocide, his unknown side, he is always
full of courage, full of life and power, and
from the treasure of his genocide health there
is great satisfaction, to influence his known
and public side, deceiving him into thinking
that he is sick and exhausted, at a time when
he really has a brave healthy soul and is full
of life and courage. And what is found in
particular, is found on a much larger scale
as a whole. And in general Israel in the fact
that finally is really one nation “and as your
people Israel one gentile in the country”, we
have to admit to our mistakes that we think to

describe ourselves, the essence of Judaism by
its outer appearance, by the publicity that is
its Ziberianism. And this comes from the fear
that we are afraid of the cluster of our faces.
And we’re only discussing the same side of
our dispersion and separation. And also the
artists of all times that they hurt us with the
venom of their hatred, and especially during
this transition, they perceive the weak side
according to which it is the public and known
side, but proven by these shocking ones we
have made us feel that we have an unknown
general soul, a great national soul from which
we have distracted our minds, and it is full of
itself And she has the power to get us back
on our feet, renew our lives like the world
and also stand against all kinds of Amaleks
who want so much to steal our snakes. And
Judaism the unknown Tamira unknown to
us also for ourselves, this is the great soul of
the great nation carrying the suffering of the
world and the light of the world in it, she is
aware of us in these great days, and from the
unknown place in the soul of the nation, we
will like the blessing of “go bury all the Jews”
and we should cherish very much in these
days of Purim until days The next Purim has
come upon us for the good of generations this
great and tamarind treasure whose name is put
is our blessing and the richness of our lives,
and our one nation’s virtue will conquer the
whole side of our scattered and divided. And
out of all the pudgy and loving redeemers,
and out of all the known and hateful slaves,
out of all their various councils, sits in heaven
will play, to give us the light of salvation and
redemption of the worlds, and out of the status
of “Until little knowledge between the cursed
Man and the blessed Mordechai”, will come
supreme recognition to find the unknown Jew
within us, and brother to brother will realize,
and hand in hand will give Nathan, And a
great voice will be heard: Stand up and let’s
go to the house of Elkino, and in the days of
Mor and Hadas it will be said that even today
we will sleep with one united nation and a
group standing in our protection, to build all
its ruins from the inner treasure hidden from
the eye, in which a genoese is the blessing of
“Go and enter all the Jews”. And “commit
Inish to Basumi in Puriah until a lack of
knowledge between the cursed Haman and
the blessed Mordechai,” and said to life, to
life, and good life “and peace” to all the Israel
and said Amen.
PT
Vues Master’s Note: Wow! Powerful!

INSTANT CAMPAIGN SUCCESS
Dear Vues Master:
Rav Yeruchem Silber, who learned in Rav
Yisroel Zev Gustman’s Yeshivah in Eretz
Yisroel for six years, shared a story that he
heard from Rav Gustman himself. A few years
before Rav Gustman opened his Yeshivah, he
went to see the Tchebiner Rav, zt”l, to ask him
for guidance about opening the Yeshivah, and
he said that he wanted to open it in the Geula

neighborhood. The Tchebiner Rav indeed
advised Rav Gustman to open a Yeshivah,
but surprisingly, he told him not to open it
in Geulah. He said, “Geulah doesn’t need
another Yeshivah, but Rechavia does. Go
build a Yeshivah there, and bring Torah to
that neighborhood.” The cost to purchase a
building in Rechavia was significantly higher
than in Geulah. Buildings were almost four
times higher there. The Tchebiner Rav gave
him a Bracha that he would be successful
in this endeavor. Rav Gustman told Rabbi
Silber, “What did I do? I went to the Kosel
and spoke to the Ribono Shel Olam. I said,
‘Ribono Shel Olam, the Gadol HaDor, the
Tchebiner Rav, advised me to buy a building
in Rechavia and open a Yeshivah there. The
Rambam writes at the beginning of his work
that everything is from You, and the words of
the Gedolim are really Your words. Hashem,
I have a dilemma. I can buy a building for
the Yeshivah in Geulah for $40,000, or I can
buy in Rechavia where it costs $150,000.
The Tchebiner Rav told me to purchase the
one in Rechavia, so that means that You say
so as well, correct?’” Rav Gustman waited
a moment before continuing. “All right,
Hashem, Your silence means that You agree!
However, I have no idea where the money
for this will come from. But the truth is,
Ribono Shel Olam, the money is all Yours,
and since You agree with the Tchebiner Rav
that I should open a Yeshivah, I suppose that
means that You will help me find the means
to purchase it. Wherever I open a Yeshivah, it
would only be because it is You Who would
be giving me the means to do so. So please,
Hashem, I ask You to please help me follow
the direction of the Tchebiner Rav!” With
that, Rav Gustman walked away, completely
content with his request from Hashem, and
within days, he had the money he needed for
the building of his new Yeshivah, Netzach
Yisroel, in Rechavia!
REF
Vues Master’s Note: It sure beats today’s
charidy campaigns!

ANGER MGMT.
Dear Vues Master:
Those who get angry, their life is not life.
Therefore, Chazal have instructed us to
distance ourselves from anger, to the point
that he can conduct himself with complete
disregard and indifference in regard to
feelings of anger, even for things that tend
to provoke someone to be angry. (Kitzur
Shulchan Aruch 29:4) Dismissing Anger
The Likutei Piskei Teshuvos cites a few
Segulos that can help someone control his
anger. The Noam Elimelech advises (Tzetil
Katan) that if one feels anger coming on,
he should say the words from the Pasuk in
Shemos (3:8), “HaC’nana’ani, HaChiti,
HaEmori, HaPerizi, HaChivi, V’HaYevusi.”
The Chasam Sofer (Drashos for 7 Adar) says
that if one feels anger rising up, he should
take hold of the corner of the garment that

he is wearing. The Kav HaYashar (85)
writes that one can also look at his Tzitzis,
and this will also help the anger settle down.
Additionally, the Kav HaYashar notes that
the time when one puts on his Tzitzis in the
morning, it is an Eis Ratzon, an auspicious
time to daven to be saved from anger, among
other bad Middos. He also includes a Tefilah
specifically for this, which he learned from
his Rebbe, HaGaon Rebbe Yosef ben Rebbe
Yudel, zt”l, and this is the text of the Tefilah:
“May it be Your will, Hashem my G-d and
the G-d of my fathers, that I should not
become angry or cause You to become angry.
Ribono Shel Olam! Grant me the Middah
of humility and the Middah of submission.
Remove the path of falsehood from before
me, and favor me with Your Torah! Guide
me in the way of Your truth and unify my
heart to love and fear Your great, mighty,
and awesome Name, with all my heart, soul,
and resources!” Rav Dovid Orlofsky said
that one time a friend of his told him about
when he was waiting on a line in a store,
and the person who was in front of him was
dissatisfied with something the shopkeeper
had done. This fellow then took the ‘obvious’
next step, and he started screaming at the
shopkeeper in a blazing fit of rage, until he
was literally red in the face from his furious
shouting. “However,” Rabbi Orlofsky said,
“to my friend’s great surprise, no matter what
the customer said to him, the guy behind
the counter just wouldn’t get upset. Not a
twitch of reaction could be seen on his face.
He just sat there calmly taking it all in. My
friend was shocked. He had never seen such
calm, such reserve. ‘How did you do that?’
he asked the shopkeeper after the incident
had ended, and the angry customer had left.
‘How can you take that type of aggravation
and not get upset?’ The shopkeeper looked
up at him and explained, ‘It’s simple. I have
a very serious heart condition. Without
exaggeration, If I get upset, I could die. It’s
just not worth it to me.’” Rav Orlofsky said,
“What a powerful lesson! If we are given
such a choice, between controlling our anger
or facing dreadfully dire consequences, then
we can find a way to maintain that extreme
level of control. We just need the push that
will help us get there, but we can do that in
every situation we find ourselves in as well!”
HY
Vues Master’s Note: Why did you not tell this
story to my friend before his heart attack?
Now I am angry!

GUARANTOR
Dear Vues Master:
Reb Efraim Margolios, the Matteh Efraim,
zt’l, was a giant in Torah. He had Torah and
gedulah (Torah knowledge and wealth) since
he owned a large bank. Once, a pauper came to
the bank asking for a loan. The Matteh Efraim
gave him the shtar to sign, and told him to find
a guarantor, an arev, who guarantees that the
money will be repaid. No one wanted to sign

for the pauper, so the pauper wrote in the line
הזהב נאם ה‘ צבקות ,arev the for designated
ולי הכסף לי. In other words, the pauper was
saying that Hashem is the arev. The Matteh
Efraim had rachmanus on the pauper and lent
him the money. One day, the Matteh Efraim
was ill, so his wife ran the bank instead of
him. When she returned home, her husband
asked her what happened at the bank. She
told him that the poritz borrowed a large sum
of money. He knew that there wasn’t money
left in the bank that day, so he asked her how
she had money to lend. She replied that there
was a pauper who owed money, and he paid
up that day, and that’s how she had money
to lend out. The Matteh Efraim checked the
records and saw that indeed, there was a debt
from the pauper who couldn’t find an arev.
The Matteh Efraim asked his wife whether the
pauper himself came to the bank to pay up, or
he sent someone to pay for him. She said that
the pauper sent someone to pay for him. The
Matteh Efraim understood it must have been
Eliyahu HaNavi. He asked himself, “Why
did I have to be home today? What did I do
wrong that I missed the opportunity to meet
with Eliyahu HaNavi?” He figured that it was
because when the pauper asked for a loan, he
told him to bring an arev. He should have had
rachmanus and given him the money as a gift.
MBE
Vues Master’s Note: I guarantee you he
never made that mistake again!
PSA
Dear Vues Master:
Annual PSA: Fresh or frozen raw poultry
and meat in original packaging is acceptable,
but ground, cooked or repacked requires
Pesach certification. Buy now and freeze for
Pesach before prices go up.
Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
Vues Master’s Note: I don’t see any meat in
original packages!

REAL ESTATE EVENT
Dear Vues Master:
Why did they cancel the Israel real estate
event at Rabbi Bergmans shul? A coalition
of pro-Palestinian groups claimed victory
and called for a rally instead of the planned
protest. The Israel Real Estate event was
slated to be the final stop on a tour that
included exhibitions in various cities,
including Teaneck, New Jersey, Montreal,
Toronto, and Lawrence, which had well
over 400 people attending the local event
at Young Israel of Lawrence/Cedarhurst. Is
our NYPD & Flatbush Shomrim not strong
enough to handle this? I’m very upset about
this.
BT
Vues Master’s Note: Ask the Askonim.
KAHANE
Dear Vues Master:
Why is there no JDL anymore? It is an
embarrassment that an Israel real estate

show in Brooklyn was canceled. There are
more yidden in Brooklyn than any place in
the world outside of Eretz Yisrael. Why did
this happen? We appear weak when we do
this. If only Kahane was around……..
PT
Vues Master’s Note: Kahane tzadak!

FRONT COVER
Dear Vues Master:
I was so impressed with The Jewish Vues
cover last week having the Satmar Rebbie
& Rabbi Elefant from the OU working
together to deal with a major issue within
Klal Yisrael. Last year a lot of rabbanim
were speaking up about the issue with the
pasul mezuzahs and no one at the end of
the day did anything about it. I’m glad that
the OU stepped up. I would doubt that most
Jewish newspapers would put a picture of
the Satmar rebbie in a publication like the
Jewish Vues but that’s what makes your
paper so great. I’m sure that you received
a lot of backlash for doing something like
that, but it’s good for Klal Yisrael to see
that we are all Acheinu Kol Beis Yisrael.
Yasher Koach & keep up the great work
you guys do for Klal Yisrael.
GK
Vues Master’s Note: Next front cover is
Moshiach!

MIDDLE NAME
Dear Vues Master:
David Alter grew up in poverty during the
Great Depression. His family couldn’t afford
to keep him in school and so at a very early
age he went to work to help put food on the
table. But David was a very personable and
hardworking fellow and at 21, he found a
good wife who helped him to prosper and
succeed in business. But he never learned
to read and write. He signed his checks XX.
One day, he received a call from his bank
seeking to confirm his signature on a check.
“Mr. Alter,” the banker said, “I’m calling
because for years you signed your checks
XX. This one has three Xs and I want to
make sure its your signature.” “Yes, it is,”
David replied. “Since I’ve become wealthy,
my wife thought I should have a middle
name.”
TW
Vues Master’s Note: Ha! My middle name
was trouble!